WELCOME TO RECEPTION OAK CLASS
On this page, you will get updates about your child's learning journey, and get snapshots on what our day looks like in Oak class. These pages will be updated termly.
Term 1
The first few weeks of your child's learning journey, is all about settling them into their new environment, and getting used to school life. This term, we will be undertaking a series of baseline activities to gain an understanding of your child's starting points. Alongside this, we will be celebrating them, as individuals, whilst getting to know their interests, achievements and memories. A focus of our learning will be based on animals, as it is a familiar subject that most children enjoy; this will be explored through stories and play.
Term 1
Alongside our English baseline activities, we will be exploring a range of core texts, such as the Elmer series by David McKee, 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' and 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'.
Whilst exploring these texts, through play, discussion and art, we will be building up the pupils familiarity of stories, so they can retell plots in some detail, and make relevant predictions.
As we crept closer to Halloween, we shared 'Pumpkin Soup', by Helen Cooper, as well as Julia Donaldson's 'Room on the Broom'. We used these core texts to enhance our rhyming knowledge, and applied our phonics knowledge by identifying the first sounds of words.
TERM 2
After Halloween, we continued with Helen Cooper's sequel to 'Pumpkin Soup', and used characters from 'Funnybones' to encourage conversations about the children's experiences in the half term.
As the term progresses, our stories will follow the genre of 'Food and Celebrations'. A part of our English this term also links to our Religious Enquiry, as we learn about the festival of lights, Diwali. The story of Rama and Sita will help us to understand this important celebration. In addition to this, the 'Christmas Story' will form the basis of our special nativity production.
The celebration of birthdays will be a focus for Oak class, alongside the story 'If a T-Rex Crashes Your Birthday Party', Birthdays, parties and celebrations will inform our role play and writing!
As we move into December, we will be reading classic stories from the 'Christmas Collection', to once again promote conversations about how we celebrate Christmas as a community, and in our families. We finish off the term with the familiar book 'Stick Man', where we help the children to retell familiar stories in detail.
EYFS Maths Long Term Plan 24 25
Term 1
In Term 1, we will be undertaking a range of baseline activities, such as numeral recognition, 1:1 correspondence with counting and creating patterns. These activities are designed to best support your child in their maths learning. All activities will be engaging, hands- on and practical.
Term 2
We started the term with some 'trick or treating' maths! We used paper sweets to match an amount to a numeral. As the term progresses, we will be continuing to build on our number knowledge, by exploring practical word problems, and thinking about the composition of numbers to 5. With our celebration enquiry, we will also be thinking about our own ages, whilst learning how to state one more and one less of numbers.
TERM 1
Our main focus is getting to know the children; their families, all about their holidays and favourite memories. This allows us to start exploring the concept of 'Growing Up', and start thinking about how we have changed. Alongside this, we will be discussing where children have been, and finding them on a map of our big, vast world. As well as different places, we will also be exploring our local community, and what it has to offer.
As the seasons change, we will be exploring and playing with lots of different seasonal objects, including beautifully coloured leaves, shiny conkers and different sized acorns!
TERM 2
With out enquiry of 'Food and Celebrations', we will be learning about different religious stories, and the celebrations that come with it. Oak class spend two weeks at the beginning of term, exploring Diwali. We focus on key information, such as how the festival is celebrated with fireworks, lights, special foods, and sharing gifts with friends and family. We compare how some may celebrate Diwali, to how we celebrate special times at home. Everything that we learn in class, is reinforced through role play, story telling, and craft.
TERM 1
Our rich environment offers many different arty activities. This term, we have been creating collages of the character Elmer, drawing maps, and doing lots of painting and colour mixing.
The concept of colour mixing is explored further in the children's art lessons, with Mrs Clarkson.
TERM 2
With celebrations and special times in mind, our art provision this term will be offering the children many mixed media opportunities. This includes, drawing making our own rangoli patterns with chalk, glittery fireworks pictures and making cards for our friends and family.