Phonics
 
We will continue to learn phonic every day using our Monsters Phonics. Recapping sounds taught so far and learn some new Reception sounds. We will learn to blend these sounds to read a CVC word and start looking at simple captions to read in our books. We will use magnetic letters to make words by segmenting them into sounds. 

PHSE
 
The children will continue with our Jigsaw programme with Jigsaw Jennie as they learn about 'Celebrating Difference' We will look at our similarities and differences and how we are unique. We will make comparisons between our families and see we all all different. We will use the 'It's OK to be Different'  book as we do this.

Celebrations

This half term we will be finding out about lots of celebrations that happen and how we might celebrate. These include Bonfire Night and all about Guy Fawkes, Remembrance Day and what might happen on this day. Follow the links below to watch a video of how we remember. The children will also find out about the Christian celebration Christmas where we will find out the story of Jesus and how Christians celebrate. 

Maths
 
The children will compare groups of numbers using maths language 'more than' and 'less than'.  They will do this through play activities and in small groups. They will look at the composition of numbers - what a whole number is and what is part of a number. We will look at the compositions of numbers 3, 4, and 5. 

English

We will continue to do Drawing Club in Reception - The children are bringing some brilliant ideas forward and  showing their very creatove imaginations. We will continue with a different story each week. This may be a book, an animation, something from the past or a traditional tale. The children will draw their ideas each day and add a code (letters and numbers) to their drawings for them to come to life. 

Expressive art and Design
 
We will link some of out cretaive work to the stories we are going to be doing. We will design and make a house for the little pigs exploring how best of join materials and what junk material would be best.

We will create firework pictures, experimenting with different colours and textures. We will create our own poppies using different materials as we find out about Remembrance Day. 

PE
 The children will continue to develop their gross motor skills . In PE sessions we will be developing spatial awareness and moving in different ways. This will continue in the outdoor learning space as we follow obstacle courses and tracks we make. In class we are always strenghtening out fine motor skills and enjoy finger gym activities.