LITERACY
In April we are learning to:
- recount our own experiences
- recite rhymes and poems
- listen to and follow instructions
- take turns in conversations and discussions
- recognise the difference between print and pictures
- use pictures to tell a story
- demonstrate reading behaviour when handling books
- understand and use correctly terms about books
- distinguish between writing and drawing in books and in our own work
- use a comfortable and efficient pencil grip
- demonstrate fine motor skills, hand-eye co-ordination and spatial awareness
- recognise the difference between a letter, a sound, a word, a sentence / a line of writing
- recognise and write the sounds ‘z’ ‘w’ ‘v’ / ‘qu’
- blend these sounds orally to make simple CVC words
- make simple CVC words using paper squares
- Read simple high frequency words
- Use 'Inference' during reading tasks.
- Writing genre – Explanations and Instructions.
NUMERACY
In April we are learning to:
- Count orally during number rhymes, jingles and stories
- Recite the days of the week
- Count forwards from 1, within 8 and beyond
- Find missing numbers within a sequence of numbers (ascending and descending)
- Order sets of numbers from smallest to biggest / biggest to smallest
- recognise, read and write numbers within 8
- touch count sets of objects within 8
- match sets to numerals
- make sets within 8
- understand one to one correspondence by matching
- recognise and name an octagon
- devise our own repeating patterns
- use money including £1. coins in the context of play
- understand and use the language associated with size
- sort, without direction, random collections of materials in a range of ways, talk about the sorting.
- help to create / complete a graph
- read information from a graph.
We will continue to focus on TIME. o'clock and half past on analogue / digital clocks.
WAU
Our topic for March / April is: ‘Spring’.
PDMU
Our April word of the month is ‘Honesty’.
THINKING SKILLS AND PERSONAL CAPABILITIES – Being Creative
In April we are learning to:
- Work with a focus, ask and respond to questions to clarify the task
- Select with help, information from materials and resources provided and suggest ways to obtain information
- Follow directions in relation to a task
- Begin to plan
- Identify simple methods to record information