Pontyclun Primary School, Reception Class: February 2013

Language, Literacy & Communication
• Listening to / responding to stories, poems, rhymes, chants, verses – books, tapes, internet, cds. Theme related (On the farm)
• Show and Tell, News (Weekend Boxes including talking about the toy that they played with at the weekend), Talking Partners, message taking and using microphone.
• GENRE - Retelling/sequencing traditional stories.
• Develop a legible style of handwriting – letter formation.
• Jolly Phonics – blending, identifying sounds in words, dictation, continuing Tricky Words, reading books, introduction of letter names, introduction of capital letters.
• Convey meaning through pictures and mark making using variety of equipment including ICT. Show an understanding of the functions of writing (lists, labels etc.)
• Copy and write letters, words and phrases
• Imaginative writing – emergent writing
• Theme related role play using story language.
• Guided reading.
• Development of sentence patterns through shared, group and individual writing

Mathematical Development
• Recognise, order, compare and count numbers to at least 10
• Estimate, count and record numbers to at least 10.
• Use the language of position and place things in given positions in relation to each other.
• Adding 2 or 3 to a number up to 10
• Combine 2 groups of objects to find how many altogether.
• Comparing lengths of 2 / 3 objects and beginning to measure lengths using a non standard unit.
• Compare heavy and light objects - estimate and begin to measure weights on scales using non- standard units.
• Sort 3-d shapes – recognising properties and naming.
• Use timers to understand the passage of time e.g. sand timers
• Use the concept of time in terms of their daily activities
• Use 1p,2p,5p to pay for items (farm shop)
• Interpret information presented in simple charts and diagrams and draw appropriate conclusions

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity
• Circle time - Discuss favourite farm animal
• Show and tell – Children bring in theme related objects/stories etc.
• Circle time/ game activities – activities we are good at and like.
• Set targets/ goals – ‘What we would like to be able to do.’
• Celebrate achievements – What can you do now that you could not do before. Children to bring in certificates and awards.
• SEAL Good to be me’ – circle time/games/activities – say/show when we are feeling good/what things they are good at/not good at
• Activities to help understand and manage feelings (discussion using photo cards of happy, proud)
• Role play using puppets to help children to stand up for themselves without hurting others

Physical Development
• Gross Motor – Large equipment – bikes, scooter, trikes, climbing frames, fort (farm yard equipment/outdoor role play)
• Rolling and kicking. - rolling a ball into a space and to a partner, kicking balls and bean bags up into the air, dribbling / controlling with their feet.
• Throwing and catching – throwing, passing and bouncing balls and beanbags – individually and then with a partner.
• Gymnastics – Use of the floor / apparatus. Travelling taking weight from one part of the body to another, travelling in different ways. Jumping / bouncing – developing strength and co-ordination.
• Spatial awareness and relationships – using language of position.
• Describe how they look / feel after physical exercise.
• Fine motor – scissors skills – cutting out letters, numbers, shapes, art and craftwork.
• Controlling mouse, IWB pen, Beebot, cd players etc.
• Manipulating clay / playdough – theme related

Knowledge and Understanding of the World
• Consider similarities and differences between farming today and in the past.
• Compare and contrast hot and cold countries and look at produce of each.
• Explore our locality and visit local farm – recreate using play mat and small world.
• Woodland winter and spring walk.
• Investigate animals and their young/simple food chains
• Let’s investigate area (animals/their homes/their young)
• Investigate how farm machinery moves (push, pull etc)
• Living eggs – observation and investigation
• Use & taste products from various farm animals/farms
• Materials and their properties (three little pigs’ houses)

Creative Development
• Music Express – theme related
• Dance – using songs, stories, poems as stimuli to devise actions for ‘on the farm’
• Observational drawings of farm animals/equipment
• Create farm models using junk materials.
• Make miniature farm yards using tuff tray
• Papier mache farm animals
• St. Dwynwen/Valentine’s Day; Mother’s Day; Easter cards / craft.
• Make puppets/masks and create a show
• Create life size scarecrow for our role play
• Using a selection of vegetables create animal models
• Vegetable prints for repeating patterns
• Bake bread and scones (cream tea party for guests)
• Make 3 little pigs’ houses

Religious Education
• Festivals –Valentines Day / St Dwynwen, St David’s Day, Mother’s Day, Shrove Tuesday, Lent, Easter.
• Discuss variety of religious stories

Welsh Language Development
• Greetings – Bore da, prynhawn da, nos ha
• Ar y fferm -Watch DVD
• Stories – big book (related vocab animals etc.)
• Songs – theme related
• Numbers - sawl un?
• Brawddeg yr Wythnos – Helpwr Heddiw
• Seren Y dydd
• Beth wyt ti eisiau?
• Faint ydy oed di?
• Ble rwyt ti’n byw?

Playing with our farm play set in the area.

Our role play area has been turned into a farm shop!

Making 'snow castles'

We love all the farm play sets that we have both in the classrooms and in the area.

Making farm animals for our displays

Co-operative play in our farm cottage.

We have a barn/stable to play in too! Do you like our scarecrow?

Writing our favourite part of the story of 'The three little pigs'. We are trying to remember to use a capital letter at the start of our sentence, finger spaces and a full stop at the end!

Every day we have 'guided reading' in small groups in the quiet room.

We have begun making papier mache pigs - hopefully they will become money boxes! We have been looking at coins we use everyday and are practising counting and using them in our role play area.