1. Acorn Class

2. Acorn Class so far… We have been exploring our classroom
Learning new routines
Making new friends

3. Using our imaginations
Trying new things
Playing with our Buddies and getting to know the other children in the school.
Working together

4. The 3 prime areas of the curriculum...
Physical Development
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Move safely in a space
Use different equipment
Form letters correctly
Talk about staying safe and being healthy.
Learn how to take risks
Self confidence
Making friends
Manage feelings and behaviour
Share and take turns
Communication and Language
Listen and take turns to talk to each other.
Share ideas and respect other people’s ideas
Talk about things that happen and why in stories and real life..

5. A Play-Based Curriculum
Learn through experiences
Apply learning to own life
Have fun!

6. Maths
Counting and ordering numbers, starting to add and subtract and use our skills in the real world. We measure lots of different things and explore patterns and shapes. We start to use the language of Maths!
Using resources to help us count.
Matching numbers to amounts
Using money through play
Recognising numbers and
Number formation

7. Numbers in the environment – ‘This looks like number 1!’
Singing number songs
Making patterns
Using ‘maths language’
(longer/ shorter, heavy/ light)

8. Literacy
We have phonics every day and learn 4 new sounds a week with the correct letter formation.
We practise the sounds we have learnt though play based activities.
Puzzles to help recognise letters
Enjoying sharing stories
Practising our own names
Mark making through role play

9. Practising mark making in different ways
Starting to hear the initial sound
Speaking clearly and listening to others

10. Introducing Reading Books
Dandelion Books – Stories reinforcing the sounds your child already knows.
Sounding out – Phonetically sounding out each letter of a word (without a schwa)
Blending – Saying the sounds slowly ‘blending’ them together to hear a word.
Red Words – Words which cannot be sounded out e.g. the, I, there, was

11. Sam sat on the mat.

12. We will be introducing new Dandelion Books weekly as we learn new sounds.
It is recommended to read these books several times to embed the new sounds and practise blending. We will help your child change these books regularly.
Reading diaries will be collected every Thursday.
Things to bare in mind when reading at home:
The font - some fonts form letters in different ways which may confuse your child. You may just need to explain that it is still the same sound.
Sounds they may not know yet - some early reading books will have sounds your child may not know yet. Just be aware they may need extra encouragement and support to enjoy/ successfully read them.

13. Tapestry Learning Journals
You may be familiar with these from Pre-school or Nursery.
We use Tapestry as a way to document the children’s learning throughout the year.
These work best when used at home and at school, you cad add your own observations of the things that your child has done and we will share them in school.
At the end of the year we will download their Learning Journal and can copy it to your or USB stick or CD.

14. Any questions?