This term, in Reception, our enquiry question is 'How can we care for animals?' As scientists, we will learn about the basic needs of all animals and how different types of animals can need different things. Some key skills we will practise are sorting and grouping, as well as doing observational drawings of plants and animals. Some key experiences will enrich our learning this term, including trips, visitors and looking after our very own caterpillars until they become butterflies!

In literacy, we will be reading three texts linked to animals and growing- Six Dinner Sid, Farmer Duck and The Enormous Turnip. The children will be honing their sentence writing skills; ensuring their sentences can be read by themselves and others by including finger spaces and using neat and accurate letter formation. The children will continue to apply their knowledge of digraphs and trigraphs, including the new GPCs: oi, ear, air and ure.

In maths, we will be using our understanding of the composition of numbers to become fluent with number facts up to 10. We will also continue to explore number pattern; consolidating some of our knowledge of odd and even numbers and also thinking about the number system beyond 20.