Autumn 1st Half Term
Curriculum Overview for Foundation Stage/Ducklings Topics: New Beginnings, Ourselves and Autumn Communication & Language
Physical Development Moving and Handling
Listening to a range of stories Talking about our news from Being able to respond to stories about ourselves and our bodies. home they have read or heard, able to Listening and talking about their Listening to their predict outcomes, retell or recall play in the role play home corner friends during play main events and answer and shoe shop and conversations questions Listening to a visitors - parent Understanding how and why and baby talk/ talk by the school questions about themselves nurse and asking questions Following simple instructions and around the new classroom
Physical Development Health & Self care
Exploring moving safely through a space Improving our fine motor skills and pincer grip to hold our mark making implement Practising writing our names Holding scissors correctly
Understanding the World The World
Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Making new friends, sharing and taking turns Talking about and using the rules of our classroom Learning the routines of the school day Knowing about ourselves and what we can do and would like to be able to do
Working towards achieving credits on our Carleton Code passports for examples of positive behaviour
Talking about our feelings in new situations and how to deal with them Turn taking in games, playing and working cooperatively in groups together
Exploring the similarities and differences between each other in the class Learning about our likes and dislikes How have we grown and changed since babies Our Families Our bodies and what we can do with them Looking at Autumn seasonal changes
Expressive Arts and Design Exploring using media and materials Using different materials/media to make portraits
Literacy/Reading
Recognising our own name Beginning to recognise other children’s names Beginning to recognise signs and labels around the classroom To begin to identify some sounds Listening to stories and recalling what has happened
Literacy/Writing
Writing our own names Mark making with lots of different materials Writing letter and sounds that we have been learning Writing through role play – birthday party, in the shoe shop, baby clinic Writing simple labels – label the parts of the body, making a shopping list
Understanding the World People & Communities
Our homes – constructing and creating their home using selected materials
Counting in order to 10, then 20 Using number names in familiar contexts, e.g. I am five. Recognising the differences between letters and numbers Counting groups of objects 1:1 and matching to the correct numeral Using mathematical language – count, number, order
we belong/Islam
Technology
Rules of using ICT equipment - ipads Mouse control with the net books Completing simple programmes Using the ipads to record Autumn changes
Expressive Arts and Design Being Imaginative
Role playing in the shoe shop or baby clinic roleplay areas Singing, dancing and moving to new songs that they are learning about the theme of Ourselves/Autumn and Harvest Using the farm and dolls’ house to create their own stories and scenarios
Mathematics/Shape,Space & Measures
Mathematics/Number
Our Families and who is in our family Other families – similarities and differences
RE –How do we show that
Exploring mixing Autumn colours Changing actions and sound effects to songs
Choosing healthy drinks and snacks Taking our coats on and off, getting dressed and undressed for PE Putting our wellies and puddle suits on Washing our hands after the toilet and before we eat Finding out how we feel before and after exercise
Ordering objects using the vocabulary of length, size, height Using shapes to build and make patterns with Make shape pictures of people and our homes Talking about the sequence of our day