Reception Summer 1 Overview - Measures Through Traditional Tales 
RESILIENCE - RESPECT - QUESTION - COLLABORATE - REFLECT - PERSEVERE

Book Coverage

Links to Texts

Key Themes to Explore in Topic

Jack and the Beanstalk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDl6HgqbObY 

The Enormous Turnip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGMpVrkm99I 

The Elves and the Shoemaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzFtaL7fQ3U 

• Continuing to develop our listening and understanding skills when reading the stories.
• Reading different traditional tales and learning and comparing different types of measurement from each.
• Measurements: Length, Weight, Capacity and Size.
• Learning and celebrating the King’s Coronation.

Sparkle Worlds

Key Vocabulary

These are our Tier Two words we learn alongside our topics.

Giant: Something that is bigger than normal.

Length:  How long or short something is

Coronation: When a new king or Queen is crowned.

Enormous: Something that is bigger than normal.

Weight: How heavy something is.

Tiny: Something that is smaller than normal.

Capacity: How much something contains. E.g. The cup is full.

Digraph: When there are two letters making one sound (phoneme)

Trigraph: When there are three letters making one sound.

Blending: Putting sounds together to be able to read a word.

Segmenting: Breaking down the sounds in a word to be able to write it.

Tricky Words: Words that cannot be sounded out easily.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Children to learn the importance of helping others, using the stories to see different ways this can be done.
• Children to think about how they can effectively work together.
• How to be helpful at home and at school.

Literacy

• To continue with phase 4 phonics.
• To independently spot digraphs in words when reading.
• Continuing their blending practice to read longer words.
• Segmenting sounds to write words.
• Reading practice four times a week.
• To continue practising blending sounds without saying each sound to read fluently.
• To begin writing sentences.
• To create story maps of our stories to aid our retelling of them.

Understanding the World

• Children continue to have Forest school every 2 weeks where they explore the outside world, gathering natural materials, looking at wildlife and how to be safe outdoors.
• Children will look at the life cycle of a bean plant and plant their own beans.
• They will make turnip soup, understanding where turnips have come from.
• Children will look at how shoes are made and how this has changed over time.

Communication and Language

• Practising our learnt poems and learning a new poem each week (Poetry Basket)
• Listening, understanding and retelling our different stories.
• Learning about The King’s Coronation.

Measures Through Traditional Tales

Expressive Arts and Design

• Role playing the different stories.
• Creating a beanstalk with recyclable materials.
• Making a machine to pull out a turnip.
• Making their own shoes.

Physical Development

• Fine motor activities such as cutting and making their own beanstalks. .
• Be independent changing for PE.
• Developing our coordination in PE to be effective controlling a ball.
• Using our outdoor area to develop our core muscles.

Mathematical Development

• Children will recap and consolidate their learning of numbers up to 10.
• They will look at the composition of numbers to 10.
• Number bonds to 10.
• Using a 10 frame to double numbers.

Author of the Term

Reception are going to be focusing on an author each half term in addition to our topic books.

This half term our author is Claire Freedman

Whose books include; Aliens love Underpants, Oliver and Patch and Superkid.