--- title: "Chestnut Class" url: "https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/classes/chestnut-class" school: "Weeting C of E Primary School" --- # Chestnut Class ## Chestnut Class - Reception **Miss Williams, Miss Kent, Mrs Stubbins and Miss Armstrong** This term the children will be exploring the theme “Journeys”. In Literacy, the children will explore a journey related text “We’re Going On a Bear Hunt” in depth. The children will be identifying, describing and comparing the characters and settings in the story and use character props and story maps to develop their retelling skills further. The children will use their growing knowledge of sounds to help them write captions and simple sentences. To support this they will become authors, sequencing the beginning, middle and end of the story, writing letters to the Bear character and creating our own “Going on a Chestnut Bear Hunt” story. In our daily Sounds Write phonics sessions we will continue to develop our knowledge of taught sounds and use these to support our reading and writing skills. Each session will focus on “saying the sounds” (segmenting) and “reading the word” or “writing the word” (blending). This term we will focus on units 3 to 5 of the Initial Code to help us read and write CVC words. The children will also bring home their first reading books. To develop fluency we would ask that children read the book at least 3 times a week, after which these will be changed. In Maths we will be exploring numbers up to 5. We will focus on finding the representations and matching the verbal number names to numerals and quantities. The children will be encouraged to count to five using objects in different arrangements, touching each object as they count and to recognise amounts by subitising through the recognition of these patterns. This will help them to recognise that the final number they say is the quantity in that set. The children will explore the concepts of 1 more and 1 less, working with numbers up to 5. They will begin to understand that as they count forwards, each number they say is 1 more than the previous number and that as they count backwards, each number they is 1 less than the previous number. Linked to this, the children will be supported to notice how numbers increase in size when 1 more is added and decrease in size when 1 is taken away. In our numerical pattern learning we will explore 2D shapes, specifically circles and triangles and begin to use mathematical language to describe their properties. They will learn that triangles are flat shapes with three straight sides and three corners and that circles are flat shapes which are perfect round. Linked closely to our core text ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ the children will learn to identify and use positional language such as ‘ in’, ‘on’, ‘under ’, ‘over ’, ‘beside’, ‘between’, ‘in front of ’, ‘around’, ‘ through’ and ‘behind’ to describe how items are positioned in relation to other items. We have added further home learning maths bags that support these maths concepts to our collection. If you would like to borrow one of these, please let us know and we will book it out for you. Please upload any photographs of you and your child completing these onto their Tapestry account. In Understanding the World, the children will think about journeys that they have been on and will think about different types of journeys and why we may need to go on a journey. They will learn that a long time ago, some people travelled by horse and cart or steam train. We will then move on to look at different types of transport that people could use on a journey. They will encounter planes, trains, bicycles, rockets and even hot air balloons when they think about how people can travel on journeys. They will learn that some people take journeys across water and that special kinds of transport are used for these journeys. Children will then think about journeys in their local area, how people travel and where they go. Finally, children will think about journeys to the coldest places on earth. They will learn that the North Pole and the South Pole are very cold and travelling there is very difficult. Children will learn about the explorer Earnest Shackleton who travelled to the South Pole. They will learn that he had to plan and think carefully about how he would survive the cold. You will see on the Knowledge Organiser some of the key facts and vocabulary that the children will be learning. In Art, we will be studying and making pictures, linked to different types of transport. The children will explore printing, painting and collage techniques, linking these to works of art including ‘Rusting Red Car in Kuau’ by Basquait, ‘Cars’ Julian Opie and ‘Rain, Steam and Speed’ by Turner. The children will use the taught techniques to create their final piece based on ‘Harbour Scene, Newhaven’ by John Piper. In RE the children will explore the big question ‘Who is special to different people?’ The children will find out about which people are special to them, their school and the local community and to religious people. They will be introduced to the word ‘God’ explore why God is special to some religious people. They will do this by engaging with some important stories for Christians, Hindus and Jewish people and explore how these people put their beliefs about God into practice in the real world. Our Autumn Term homework challenges are shown below and you will also find a copy of these in your child’s homework book. Journeys Knowledge Organiser 1.47 MB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/weeting-cofe-primary-school/files/documents/Nursery-Journeys-KO-RE_(2).pdf) Autumn term homework 228 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/weeting-cofe-primary-school/files/documents/journeys_aut_2_26.doc) Autumn Rhyme 1 179 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/weeting-cofe-primary-school/files/documents/t-t-2566760-teddy-bear-teddy-bear-turn-around-rhyme-english_ver_1(1).pdf) Autumn Rhyme 2 492 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/weeting-cofe-primary-school/files/documents/t-t-12214-ten-in-a-bed-nursery-rhyme-poster_ver_2(1).pdf) Maths Challenge bags 22 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/weeting-cofe-primary-school/files/documents/Home-Learning-Maths-Bags-list.docx) Recommended Reads 429 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/weeting-cofe-primary-school/files/documents/recommended_reads_aut_2_26.docx) ### Parents - [Attendance](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/parents/attendance) - [School Meals](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/parents/school-meals) - [Knowledge Organisers](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/parents/forms) - [Uniform](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/parents/uniform) - [PTA](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/parents/pta) - [Wrap Around Care](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/parents/wrap-around-care) - [Supporting Your Child At Home](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/parents/supporting-your-child-at-home) - [Classes](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/classes) - [Acorn Class](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/classes/acorn-class) - [Chestnut Class](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/classes/chestnut-class) - [Beech Class](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/classes/beech-class) - [Elm Class](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/classes/elm-class) - [Oak Class](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/classes/oak-class) [Cookies Notice](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/cookie-policy) \| [Terms of Use](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/terms-of-use) \| [Privacy Policy](https://graceschools.org.uk/about-us/key-information/data-protection) \| [Accessibility](https://wps.graceschools.org.uk/accessibility) © Weeting C of E Primary School. 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