Welcome to Amber Class!
Our class teacher is Mrs Rowley and our adult is Mrs Purdue.
Communication and Language:
Listening and attention: Listening to stories and rhymes with enjoyment.
Understanding: Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events.
Speaking: Interact with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversation.
Reading: Letters and Sounds
Writing: Names, labels and captions (non-fiction)
Fantasy and reality (fiction)
Nursery rhymes
Non -fiction books about the body and families
Now and then books
Christmas Poetry/ activities
The children will explore;
Numbers
Different ways of sorting and analysing information.
Comparing groups within 5
Comparing quantities of identical and non-identical objects
Say which number is 1 more/1 less than a given number.
Time
Children will begin to lead their own acts of worship.
Exploring and using media and materials: Colour mixing and self-portraits
Nursery rhyme activities
Changing sounds and long and short sounds.
Building homes and buildings.
Being imaginative: Home role play area
Moving and Handling: Throwing & Catching, Balancing, Skipping.
Fine Motor Skills: Dress dolls, zips, buttons and fasteners on clothes, drawing patterns on clothes, cutting hand prints etc.
Health and Self-care: Recognising changes that occur when we exercise.
Healthy eating
Becoming independent when changing for PE.
Technology: Information Around Us, assembling text
People and Communities: Why do Christians give gifts?
Harvest.
All About Me – Information Books.
When I was a baby – timeline, differences.
The World – Autumn, changes and weather patterns
Self-Confidence and Self-Awareness:
Learning the rules of the classroom
Managing Feelings and Behaviour: class rules.
SEAL – New Beginnings,
Making Relationships: SEAL - getting along together
Edward De Bono
We continue to use Edward De Bono's six thinking hats to help us to organise our thinking and process or ideas. There are 6 hats and each has a different colour and so a different use or meaning. When children answer questions in class, each question will have a different colour hat attached to it. The diagram below shows you in better detail how we use them. Ask your children what hats they have used in their learning today!
Habits of Mind
The Habits of Mind are a collection of 16 thinking dispositions designed to help children develop their critical and creative thinking skills. Every week children are taught to use a different ‘habit of mind’ to help with their thinking and apply this to their work.
Visual Maps
The children are now using visual tools in all areas of their learning. These tools help the children map out their ideas and organize their thinking.
Please have a look at our timetable and newsletter!
For more information about the curriculum please contact your child's teacher.
TIMETABLE (PENDING)
NEWSLETTER (PENDING)
This was our successful Reception Reading Meeting 2018
