Year R Spring 2 2025: Kings and Queens and How things grow

This half-term we will be learning about Kings and Queens, How things grow, growing plants, Spring and the Easter story.

We will be learning:

Who are our King and Queen? Who were our King and Queen ?

Where does our food come from?   What food is healthy/unhealthy?

What do plants need to grow?

What happened in the Easter story?

 Important Vocabulary

  King, Queen, monarch, anthem, succession, tradition, guard, food, eat, healthy, unhealthy , grow, plants, new life, Spring, Easter.

Reading

• How will I use Fred talk to help me to read?
• How will I blend sounds to read words?
• What red words can I read?
• What non-fiction vocabulary will I use and understand?
• What vocabulary about rhymes, poems, stories will I use and understand?

Writing

• How will I write letters correctly ?
• How will I use Fred fingers to help me represent the sounds in words correctly, including ‘Special Friends’ ?
• How will I spell red words ?
• What simple phrases and sentences will I write that can be read by others ?

Mathematics

• How will I use a part-whole model and a ten frame to help me to add and subtract?
• What are the number bonds to 5 and 10 ? What are the doubling facts to 10?
• What different patterns can I make?