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Areas being covered in Reception in the Spring Term
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Personal, Social and Emotional Development
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- Identifying the qualities that make a good friend
- Naming different emotions and talking about how we feel using the Zones of Regulation
- Looking at different things that can support our mental health and wellbeing (sleep, food, exercise and having fun)
- Learning ways to manage our own feelings through mindfulness and yoga
- Showing confidence when asking our friends or adults for help – using our diamond power
- Working and playing together – sharing and turn taking
- Respecting and following the school rules
- Adapting our behaviour during different events and social settings
- Identifying what makes us all different
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Physical Development
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- Stopping and starting on command in class and during PE
- Developing the fundamental skills and exploring movement (running, jumping, climbing, throwing and catching)
- Dancing during our daily wake and shake sessions – copying actions and moving rhythmically
- Exploring movement and music on our outside stage and in music sessions
- Learning how to ride and how to stay safe on a balance bike
- Playing outside in the Reception area - sand (wet and dry), water play, prop box, play house, gardening, creative cube, mud kitchen, bikes and scooters
- Finger Fun Friday - developing fine and gross motor skills through a range of activities including: sand, shaving foam, sand paper, peg boards, balancing objects, using tongs & chop sticks to pick up shapes
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Communication and language/literacy
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- To recognise digraphs and tri-graphs in words (such as; ai, ee, igh, oa, ue)
- Segmenting and blending CVC words
- Speed reading tricky words; go, she, of, the, has
- Speaking in full sentences and extending sentences with ‘and’ or ‘because’ when taking part in show and tell
- Asking who, what, why questions during our ‘This is Me Box’ talkie time
- Listening to animal stories, sequencing events, comparing stories and discussing similarities and differences
- Using a range of non-fiction books to find out facts about a range of animals
- Practising fluency when reading decodable books during group reading and individual reading sessions
- Writing for a range of purposes, including labels, speech bubbles and lists during our free time and during group work
- Creating story maps in our Talk for Writing sessions
- Learning stories off by heart to preform to an audience before writing them in our Best Books (Dear Zoo/Rosie’s Walk)
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Mathematics
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- Rote counting to 20, forwards and backwards
- Counting 3, 6 and then 10 objects reliably
- Subitising – recognising amounts quickly without counting
- Investigating different ways to make 5 and then 10 (number bonds)
- Looking at equal and unequal groups in practical lessons
- Understanding and using positional language such as under, above, behind and in front
- Naming 2D shapes (square, triangle, circle and rectangle) and using some simple mathematical language to describe them
- Comparing objects in different ways; big/small, more/less
- Ordering 3 items by height, length or weight. For example, short, shorter, shortest
- Saying one more/one less than a given number (up to 5 and then 10)
- Exploring natural patterns during our Spring walk around the school grounds and in Forest School
- Creating repeating patterns with colours, animals and numicon shapes
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Expressive Art & Design
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- Role play – Baby Clinic, Vets, Farm Shop
- Singing & dancing on the stage following the children’s musical interests
- Learning a story to retell (Talk for Write)
- Making music for film scenes linked to the jungle
- Cutting and sticking using a range of ways to join materials
- Painting and exploring colour mixing
- Using chalk and pastels to create different effects
- Guided drawing of animals with Get Squiggling – looking closely at different lines and shapes
- Making animal masks and pictures using a range of media, including collaging
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Understanding of the World
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- Talking about my family and special times, including celebrations and how different families celebrate
- Learning about different cultures and beliefs, such as Chinese New Year and Easter traditions.
- Comparing animals from a jungle to those on a farm (Day Monkey Night Monkey, Monkey Puzzle, Rosie’s Walk)
- Using non-fiction books and the internet to research animals. Learning animal names and interesting facts
- Discussing different ways that we can look after the animals in our environment
- Talking about our family pets and how we care for them
- Sequencing the life cycle of a human, animal and plant
- Learning observational skills to draw pictures of the natural world, including animals and plants
- Looking for signs of Spring in Forest School and completing mini-beast hunts
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