Moriah Jewish Day School

Reception

2008 / 2009 – Curriculum


	Autumn Term Topics: 1. Ourselves 2. Nursery Rhymes	Spring Term Topics: 3. Weather 4. Houses and Homes	Summer Term Topics: 5. Minibeasts 6. Water
Personal, Social and Emotional Development	Settling in - introduce school routines and classroom organisation Encouraging social mixing and learning names Changing for P.E. independently Class and school rules Turn-taking Topics: Ourselves and Nursery Rhymes	Continuing from Autumn term plus: Playtimes Real / pretend Being 'fair' Safety Care of environment Home corner role-play Talking about moving house Weather forecast role-play	Continuing from previous terms plus: Developing independence / managing behaviour Circle time - how to treat minibeasts, fears of animals Developing confidence to perform in front of an audience Being an appreciative audience - watching year group productions Preparing for change
Communication, Language and Literacy	Sight vocabulary (45 HFW in Reception and Jolly Phonics Reading Scheme) Jolly Phonics / Ginn / ORT reading scheme books Letters and Sounds 44 phonemes Speaking and Listening - circle time, instructions, news, conversation, role-play Writing names Letter formation Rhymes Emergent writing Introduction to punctuation: full stops, capital letters and question marks.	Continuing from Autumn term plus: Encourage blending through Jolly Phonics Scheme Letter formation Assessment on phase 2 and 3 Letters and Sounds Word building - 'cvc' / 'ccvc' and 'cvcc' words Introduction to chapters, contents page Introduction to speech marks and speech bubbles Finger spacing	Continuing from previous terms plus: Alphabetical order Continue on word building Performing skills Copying from the board Sentences - full stop and capital letters Fiction and non-fiction Introduction to KS1 Literacy Framework
Mathematical Development	Number recognition 0 - 10 Writing numerals Number names to 10 2D shape 'One more than' + and = Adding by combining a set Comparing length / height / quantities Sorting Introduction to money Introduction to concept of measuring time	Continuing from Autumn term plus: Counting on Estimating Language of position Comparing length / heights / weights Ordering numbers 3D shape Sorting using venn diagrams Less than / more than / between Ordinal numbers - 1st, 2nd, 3rd	Continuing from previous terms plus: Numbers to 20 Subtracting by counting back Measuring lengths using non-standard units Capacity Addition and subtraction problems (using money) Ordering days of the week Yesterday, today, tomorrow Subtraction from up to 10 'One less' than Time - o'clocks Position and direction
Knowledge and Understanding of the World	Day, date and weather Ourselves topic Nursery rhyme topic Construction activities Autumn / Winter Guy Fawkes Multi-cultural topics: Afro-Caribbean and Chinese weeks. Food technology Use of pritt stick / PVA glue	Continuing from Autumn term plus: Weather topic / Winter / Spring Freezing and melting Hibernation Houses and homes topic	Continuing from previous terms plus: Minibeasts topic Life cycle - butterfly Water topic Floating and sinking Spring / Summer Planting and growing
Physical Development	Outdoor activites TOPSTART P.E. - balancing and spatial awareness Scissor skills	Continuing from Autumn term	Continuing from previous terms
Creative Development	Mark-making - crayons, paint, chalk, pencils, pens, pastels Painting (2D) Colouring Collage Drawing Glue skills Printing Music	Continuing from Autumn term plus: Painting a 3D object Observational drawing Finger spacing	Continuing from previous terms plus: Symmetry painting


Jewish Studies	Autumn Term	Spring Term	Summer Term
- Curriculum Area
- Language	Start to look at Aleph bet letters Learn to respond to simple instructions in Ivrit Learn days of week in Ivrit	Carry on going through Aleph bet letters Start Hebrew reading following lamdeni book. Weekly homework set. Learn to count to 10 in Ivrit	Finish looking at Aleph bet letters and look at vowels Continue reading from lamdeni Pupils learn parts of body in Ivrit
- Torah and Texts	Pupils taught 5 books of Torah Weekly parasha lessons with a relevant middah (moral).	Weekly parasha lessons with a relevant middah (moral).	Weekly parasha lessons with a relevant middah (moral).
- Jewish Way of Life (a)	Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Succot Chanukah	Tu B'shvat Purim Pesach	Yom Haatzmaut Lag B'omer Shavuot
- Jewish Way of Life (b)	7 days of creation and why we have Shabbat Learn first paragraph of Shema and first paargraph of benching.	Pupils learn about kashrut and milk and meat To know about the middah of loving your neighbour	To learn on SHabbat we wear our best clothes. To learn some key words from Shabbat in Ivrit Tzedakah project
- Jewish History / Geography and Israel	To know Torah stories are real not fictional.	To know Isral is Jewish people's homeland	To recognise and draw Israli flag. To see photos of Israel

Jewish Studies – Reception

Language

Start learning how to read
Continue letter formation
Pupils learn to count to 10 in Ivrit.

Torah and Texts

The Weekly Parasha and Middot from the Parasha
To know the names of the five books of the Torah

Jewish Way of Life

Tu B’Shvat, Purim, Pesach
Brachot
Kashrut – milk and meat
The 3 daily services

Jewish History

Chronology of Biblical Events

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