Exploring Autumn 1: Learning through Play and Activities

Maths Number: Me & My World Autumn 1 Joining in with number songs and rhymes. Identifying, counting and ordering amounts from 0 5 and 5 10. Looking at 2D shapes and going on shape hunt and number hunt. Numerical Patterns: Comparing amounts and using the language more, less or the same. Subitising amounts to 3 Estimating amounts and counting to check. Children explore and learn about the people, local community and cultural backgrounds of themselves and their peers. Physical Development: Gross Motor Development Outdoor play; bikes, climbing, moving safely around the environment, den building, blocks, throwing and catching games. Children engage in movement activities that build their core strength, to support sitting on the floor. Fine Motor Development: Playdough, Weaving, cutting, sticking, mark making, digging, small world toys, small construction. Children explore using tools such as scissors safely. Expressive Arts and Design: Creating with Materials: Children explore painting, collaging, drawing, sculpting, threading, using materials safely. Being Imaginative and Expressive: Role Play corners: home corner and local shop Small world activities such as dolls house, dinosaurs and animals for children to develop their own narrative. Communication and Language: Listening, Attention and Understanding: Children practise and learn the importance of listening carefully. Listening carefully to stories and talking about the storyline. Listening and joining in with songs, rhymes, poems and stories. Practising concentrating through memory games and drawings. Speaking: Using new vocabulary in role play and storytelling. Circle time to talk about families and retell events. Literacy Reading: Listening to stories, poems, songs and rhymes. Children will begin reading single letter graphemes and the sound they make. Comprehension: Children retell stories and make predictions. Writing: Children begin writing their names and letters. Children explore writing through labelling, letters, role play writing. Understanding the World: People, Cultures and Communities. Children talk about their family, events and celebrations. Using books and maps to look at the local area and some of the names of the streets. The Natural World: Children notice environment changes of Autumn through walks, forest school and observational drawings of Autumn objects. Children read books about the seasonal changes. Personal, Social, Emotional Development Self Regulation: Children begin to recognise and identify feelings of happy, sad, angry, worried, excited. Children practise using vocabulary for dealing with play conflicts. Managing Self: Children learn and adapt to the behavioural expectations. Children discuss good choices and showing kindness to others. Making Friendships: Children share and talk about their interests and practise respectful listening.

Autumn 1 Texts: Key Vocabulary: change, beginning, middle, end, Autumn, local, map, school, feelings, nature, world, countries, culture, family, different, same, celebration, phoneme, grapheme, word, sentence, sound, letters, number, more, less, combine, join, create, colour, texture, shape

Literacy Reading: Listening to stories, poems, songs and rhymes. Children read short words sounds and practise blending to say the word. Children begin to identify diagraphs. Comprehension: Children retell the story Whatever Next through props and puppets. Children re-read their own writing to check it makes sense. Writing: Children write graphemes and begin writing the first sound in words.. Children explore writing to label owls, continue speech, and for a story. Light and Dark Autumn 2 Children engage in texts and activities that explore nocturnal animals and animal behaviour in winter. They also learn about light through mirrors and torches. Maths Number: Identifying, counting and ordering amounts to 10. Accurately counting out amounts to 10. Identifying one more and less of a number. Numerical Patterns: Comparing amounts and using the language more, less or the same. Subitising amounts to 6 Counting backwards from 10. Shape, Space and Measure: Children learn the names for 2D and 3D shapes. Children learn about a pattern and how to continue them. Physical Development: Gross Motor Development Children explore gross motor skills with a ball, such as catching, kicking, dodging. Children practice climbing, balancing and negotiating space. Fine Motor Development: Children learn to hold their pencil correctly. Children form recognizable letters. Children use more intricate objects such as beads. Communication and Language: Listening, Attention and Understanding: Asking questions to other children during show and tell time. Practising following 2 part instructions. Listening to stories about nocturnal animals and space. Speaking: Using new vocabulary to describe feelings in response to Owl Babies . Using talk to retell, discuss, clarify and explain information from books and information texts. Expressive Arts and Design: Creating with Materials: Children explore painting, collaging, drawing, sculpting, threading, using materials safely. Children make props for their own role play. Being Imaginative and Expressive: Singing, dancing and acting in the nativity. Understanding the World: People, Cultures and Communities. Children explore the different celebrations of different cultures such as Diwali and Christmas. The Natural World: Researching through books, photos and the internet the habits of animals in winter (hibernation) and nocturnal animals. Looking at the habitats of animals and the natural materials used to make them. Personal, Social, Emotional Development Self Regulation: Children begin to explore emotional regulation techniques. Managing Self: Children build a can do attitude and understand the importance of trying new things. Making Friendships: Children initiate conversations with others. Children enter play with others.

Autumn 2 Texts: Key Vocabulary: nocturnal, hibernation, night, sun, flight, predator, prey, planet, space, sun, moon, moonlight, dark, vision, sight, senses, habitat, finger spaces, grapheme, diagraph, tricky word, capital letter, winter, season change, fewer, more, altogether, I like it because , I want to change , shape, colour, texture