Reception Class
This term our topic is …
How Do You Scare A Dragon?
We will be thinking about dragons and castles. We will be focusing on the story ‘George and the Dragon.’
Think about:
- What do dragons look like? What features do they have?
- What food do you they eat? Where do they live?
- What are dragons scared of?
- What is a castle? Have you ever visited a castle? What do they look like? What features does a castle have?
This half term we will also be learning about the Shakespeare play, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’
This half term, we will be thinking about:
- Writing our friends names, starting with a capital letter.
- Forming the letters we have learnt using their correct letter formation.
- Writing lists using initial sounds.
- Using our phonic knowledge to help us segment and blend CVC word e.g. c-a-t.
- Forming the letters we have learnt using their correct letter formation
- Writing lists using initial, middle and final sounds.
- Writing a simple sentence – using a capital letter, finger spaces and full stops.
- Using our phonic knowledge to help us segment and blend CVC word e.g. c-a-t.
- Beginning to recognise tricky words (red words)
- Counting forwards and backwards to 10.
- Recognising, ordering and writing numbers to 10.
- Exploring number facts to 10.
- Practise our ‘subitising’ skills – develop our ability to instantaneously recognise the number of objects in a small group without the need to count them.
Extra activities to try at home:
We are working hard to practise our blending skills for reading. Practise blending using the Phase 2 games ‘Buried Treasure’ and ‘Dragons Den’ (Sets 1-4):
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2
In Reception, we love reading!
Click here to find out the 100 picture books to read before you are five – How many have you read?
Click here to find out about the featured books for 3+
We have learnt the actions to the story of the ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. Watch the video and join in here.
Here are some websites that you might find useful:
- Phonics Play
- Phonics Bloom
- Oxford Owl
- Dough Disco! Move the funky fingers to the rhythm of the music!
- ASM Sports
- Cosmic Yoga
- BBC Bitesize Resources for Early Years
- White Rose Maths
You should now have your login Login details for the following sites:
- Minimash through Purple Mash
- Reading Eggs
Topic Webs 2020-2021
Who lives in your house (Autumn 1) | How Do You Scare A Dragon (Spring 1) | |
How do we celebrate ? (Autumn 2) |
For Reception Long Term Plan please click here