Early Years
Topic: Autumn
New Beginnings and Celebrations
Communication/Language & Literacy
In Communication, Language & Literacy, we will be working on our social interaction and making choices via our preferred method of communication. We will do daily communication sessions, use switches, signs, symbols, photos and objects of reference and interact with our friends. Our key texts are: Owl Babies, How to Catch a star and The bear snores on. We will also look at factual books about autumn and different aspects of celebrations around the world; as well as and developing our mark making skills.
PSED
In PSED we will look at how we can build new relationships, interact with our friends and explore the engage with the wider school community. We will learn about personal hygiene and how we can manage our feelings and emotions, helping others and being kind, as well as keeping safe. We will learn about keeping active and eating well via our sensory baking/cooking sessions. We will also look at special days and festivals such as: Harvest Festival, Children in Need, Remembrance Day, Diwali, Christmas and how we celebrate these.
Physical Development
In Physical development we will follow our postural management and MOVE programmes, as well as access different aspects of fine and gross motor skills via PE sessions in the hall and in soft play/sensory mat sessions. We will work on all our physical skills through our many different sessions in the day, as well as our free choice sessions, and look at ways in which we can challenge ourselves physically in line with our autumn, new beginnings and celebration’s themes.
Mathematics / Cognitation
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We will be looking at all aspects of maths especially focusing on counting songs, patterns, shapes, puzzle work, size: big/small, sorting, more/less and positional language linking many of these to our late summer/autumn, new beginnings and celebration’s themes. We will do this in discrete sessions as well as in a cross curricula way both in the classroom, outside and around school. |
Expressive Arts & Design
In Expressive Arts and Design: we will look at various aspects of music that illicit feelings about different celebrations and autumn. We will explore different genres of music such as autumn/celebration music and make/play various musical instruments, as well as make choices, keeping the beat/rhythm with favoured counting songs and rhymes.
In Art and Design, we will create autumn pictures and pictures based around our texts; and explore doughs/clay and different media. We will also create different pictures around festivals, and celebrations by being creative with different everyday materials.
Understanding the world
In Understanding the World: we will be looking at aspects of autumn, and learning about new beginnings, celebrations around the world; and our wonderful world both far away and around us, via exploring our local community. We will look at different environments in the local area such as woods/ponds and the animals that live there; we will also explore and use everyday materials and see what we can create with these (Owl baby nests etc.). This will be explored on a sensory level, through smells, touch, sounds etc., as well as via PowerPoints, ICT, books, small world, role play and first-hand experiences in our wildlife/sensory garden.