English (Literacy Tree)

After experiencing an engaging starting point of looking at, talking about and making predictions about a range of hats, the children read the book 'I Want My Hat Back' by Jon Klassen. Through role-play, children explore the characters’ feelings. They create a short dialogue between the two main characters, Bear and Rabbit, and discuss who has Bears' hat. Children develop upon their overgrowing skills set in English and apply their knowledge of adjectives when describing a variety of hats and also learn to ask and write questions.

Our second book in the run up to Christmas is 'How Does Santa Go Down The Chinmey?' by Mac Barnett. This book delivers a sublime festive gift in this testing question of how Father Christmas brings presents. Children will explore the rhyming elements of the story and look to create their own festive poems. 

 

 

Maths

In Autumn 2 we progress onto discussing the numbers 6-10, looking at how we can represent them by using the 'five and a bit structure' and work systematically to partition them. Children become skilled in using part-whole models to support their partitioning and are aware of how to confidently use Numicon as a helpful problem solving tool.

With children becoming so confident with their partitioning, we then begin to learn about additive structures. Children will learn to combine two or more parts to make a whole and understand that addends can be represented in any order - also called the communicative law. 

 

 

Phonics (Little Wandle)

In Autumn 2 children delve further into Phase 5, learning more GPCs, including split digraphs!

*If you are unsure on how to pronounce some of these GPCs then please ask your child's class teacher and we can support you so that you can support your child.