Year R Autumn 1: What is special about me and my family?

This half-term we are learning about ourselves and our family. We are learning:

What is special about me and my family?

What is special about my school?

What are the five senses?

What is the Season, and What is Harvest time?

Important Vocabulary

Magnificent, unique, family, sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing, house, home, Autumn, Harvest, thankful.

Reading

• I can read individual letters by saying the sound for them.
• I can blend sounds into words, so that I read short words made up of known letter-sound correspondences.
• I can read a few common exception words.

Writing

• I can write my own name with a capital letter to start, followed by lower case letters.
• I can form lower case letters correctly.
• I can spell words by identifying the sounds and then writing the sounds with letter/s.  

Maths

• I can count objects, actions and sounds to 10 and beyond.
• I can link the symbol (numeral) with its cardinal value to 10 and beyond.
• I can compose and decompose shapes so that I recognise a shape can have shapes within it.