Autumn 1
Hello and welcome to sky class.
We hope you all had a fabulous summer holiday and are looking forward to being back in school.
In our class there are 11 children who are supported by Daniela and Berny.
Our topic this half term is "This is Me", and we have lots of fun activities ready for everyone.
These are some of the topics we will be covering this term, as well as some ideas to try out at home...
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Communication/Early Reading
- Take part in role play activities
- Listen to stories and answer questions
- Answer questions relating to an event
- Answer who” “what” “where” questions
- Use pronouns correctly
- Use prepositions correctly
- Ask for help when we need it
- Talk about our likes and dislikes
- Talk about our families, friends and the people who are important to us.
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Early Reading & Writing
- Pencil control and handwriting skills
- Writing sentences to match pictures
- Read words and sentences in the environment
- Dictate sentences for a picture
- Sequence stories
- Draw a picture to match a sentence
- Read traditional tales
- Role play
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Early Maths
- To begin to follow daily routine- having some awareness of what comes next
- Count and order numbers to 10
- Write numbers to 10
- Continue patterns
- Join in with counting songs by handling objects, singing, signing, observing/recognising numerals
- Count objects/pictures in different contexts
- To fill and empty and compare quantities during cookery and continuous provision (sand and water)
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Creative Development
- Explore 2d and 3d art
- Observational drawings/paintings of faces using mirrors and window panels, noting similarities and differences
- Explore different materials/ textures to create collages of own face
- Explore music, sounds and sing songs
- Arcimboldo art
- Paper plate face of ourselves
- Autumn leaves art
- Singing hands songs- makaton
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Sky Class
Autumn 1 2022
This is Me.
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Physical/Sensory
- Explore malleable materials. Provide different coloured doughs.
- Experiment with the mixing of colours.
- Use a knife and fork at lunchtime
- Use Zones of Regulation to describe how we feel
- Map feelings of characters in a story
- Daily Mile
- To join in with PE sessions developing skills of balancing, throwing, catching, stopping and starting to music
- Join in with with Dough Disco
- Join in with attention Everyone sessions
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PSHE
- To make positive relationships with new adults and children
- To begin to follow new routines
- To begin to know where toys/resources are kept in new learning environment
- To seek out adults when happy, upset and when needing help
- To accept help from adults when dysregulated
- To accept rules and boundaries in new learning environment
- To participate in sessions to develop self care
- Express feelings with appropriate language
- Introduce calendar activities
- Select resources independently
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Knowledge & Understanding of the world
- Look at the past and present in relation to ‘self’
- Recognise similarities and differences between themselves and others
- Talk about self and immediate family
- Draw around a child and label the parts of the body.
- Look in mirror and draw face
- Look outside and notice weather changes- begin to select symbols to match weather
- Know what clothing we need to wear when it is different weathers
- Explore nature in the outside world and look at seasonal changes.
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At home…
- Explore the outdoors together, looking at and commenting on seasonal changes
- Practise putting on and taking off wellies, hats, gloves
- Retell traditional tales- The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The three Little Pigs and encourage children to join in with the refrain.
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