Post on 04-Oct-2020
Curriculum Evening9/10/19
TeamDenton• Miss Isherwood
• Mrs Holmes
• Ms Malone
• Miss Walton
• Miss Minney
• Mrs Law
• Mrs Freeman
Yardley• Miss Hayfield
• Mrs Evans
• Mrs K
We will cover:• Topic
• Phonics
• Reading
• Speaking
• Writing
• Maths
Topic
• New topic every term
• Based on the children’s interests
• Everything themed around the topic
Phonics
• Teaching of the sounds that letters and a combination of letters make.
• Daily
• Letters and Sounds/Jolly Phonics/Read Write Inc.
• Everybody progresses at different rates!
Letters and Sounds• 6 phases
• Phase One : Nursery• Sound discrimination: environmental, instrumental, body
percussion.
• Rhythm and rhyme
• Alliteration: Initial sounds: ‘I spy…’
• Voice sounds
• Oral blending and segmenting.
Phase 2» Introduce 19 most common letters (pure
sounds). » Letter names. » 4 each week.» Some digraphs such as ff, ll, ss, ck.» Some naughty words that try to trick us:
I, the, no, go, into (Tricky / Truck Words).
Phase 2» Jolly Phonics actions and songs.» ‘Read, write, inc’ letter formation.» Sheets sent home.» Sound sacks. Sound not letter!» Fun!
Blending• Combining letter sounds to read a word.• Blend to read.• Decodable• Robot talk. Sound buttons.
c u p
. . .t i ck
. . _
Segmenting
• Segment to spell and to write.
• What sounds can you hear in cat?
c a t
. . .
Phase 3• More letters.
• Digraphs.
• Trigraphs.
• Tricky Words
• New phoneme per day.
• Lots of revision and consolidation.
Phase 4• Consolidation and practise.
• Consonant blends.
• Str, nd, pl……
Writing
Writing
Writing
Writing
Writing• Pen grip
• Top to bottom lines. Anticlockwise circles
• Letter formation.
• Ascenders and descenders
• Words
• Sentences
Writing• Nursery
• Gross motor: malleable, large movements
• Fine motor skills: tweezers, construction
• Mark making matters!
• Pen grip
Reading at School
• Phonics sessions: words and captions.
• Guided reading x2.
• Individual reading
• Books are changed twice a week
• Re-reading is important
Reading at Home• Nursery: Quality picture book to
share.
• Reception: Picture books at first.
• Words when ready.
Reading at Home
• Five minutes is all it takes!
• Please make a comment in the reading record!
• Reading Stars – read 4 times a week and get a star. At the end of term prizes will be given out.
Speaking
• Make time to talk!• Talk Homework• Model good speaking.• Correct tense.• Correct mispronunciations.• Vital to writing skills• Show and Tell.• Vocabulary• No Pens Wednesday
Literacy
• Talk4Writing – learn to tell and create a story
• Focus on character’s feelings, adjectives, different parts of a story, story language and ordering
Maths• Daily
• Number
• Pattern
• Calculation
• Shape
• Measure
Number• We start low.
• Pattern generalisation and prediction
• Numbers in the environment
• Estimation
• One more/ one less
• Ordering numbers
Counting• Not by rote!
• Counting carefully: one to one correspondence
• Conservation of number: The number identifies how many are in a set.
• 1 to 5, 1 to 10, 1 to 20
Subitise
Number Formation• Number Time Daily
• ‘Ten Town’
• It’s tricky!
• Anticlockwise: 0, 6, 8, 9
• Clockwise: 2, 3, 5
• Zigzag: 1, 4, 7
Calculation• Addition
• How many are there altogether?
The symbols!
+=
Subtraction
How many are left?
Can you write a number sentence?
What are the symbols?
Shape• 2D
• 3D
Measure• Length and height
• Repeated patterns
• Weight
• Capacity
• Time
• Money!!
How can you help?
• Independence • Read at home – 4 times a week • Tricky words • Recap what they have learnt• Flying High and Learning Leaves
We would like you to come in!
• ‘Book and Biscuit’ sessions.
• ‘Board Game and Biscuit’ sessions.
• Curriculum sessions