Unit 1 - Reception Autumn Theme Work

WORK FOR AUTUMN TERM 2018

UNIT ONE - Reception All about me/Traditional Tales In line with the foundation stage curriculum we have firmly based our children's learning on first-hand experience. This will involve much time spent on outdoor activities and investigations as well as indoor tasks and experiences.

During the early years of childhood, children's development does vary enormously. This has implications for our planning which must be flexible to enable staff to respond to children’s interests and needs at their stage of development. There are seven areas of learning in which we will base our teaching. These areas are personal, social and emotional; communication and language; physical development, literacy, mathematics, understanding the world and expressive arts and design.

Unit One – Reception All About Me/Traditional Tales

Within the teaching and learning activities we are aiming at specific early learning goals. In this booklet are selections of activities which will offer a range of ways for the children to work towards the learning goals. The planning also covers the appropriate part of the current seven-year education plan the school has planned for your child’s educational development.

As a school we have considered very carefully what the children of Shawclough really need to develop. We have identified four key areas which we have called our ‘school drivers’. In Reception we will introduce the school drivers through dinosaur toys. Each dinosaur will represent a Characteristic of Learning/ school driver. The dinosaurs are introduced 1 at a time. There are 2 dinosaurs each for the three areas.

1. Creating and Thinking Critically – Solvoducus and Predictoducus.

2. Playing and Exploring – Pretendasaur and Exploraraptor.

3. Active Learning – Triatops and Strayasaurus.

The following offers brief details only of the curriculum that will be taught to the children over the next term. If you would like to know more detail about any of these plans please do speak with your child’s class teacher either before the start of the school day or after school has finished.

PERSONAL ,SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT This is the most significant area of development and is learnt and developed in all the others areas. The main area this term will be to learn to work co-operatively with others. To be considerate and to make sensible choices. We will talk to the children about having the right to learn, to play and to be safe.

COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE LITERACY      

Learning points of the Phonic alphabet following the Read Write Inc programme Joining in shared and trying independent writing.

Sharing traditional stories and nursery rhymes.

Talking about themselves and their families.

Learning to listen and respond appropriately.

Learning to ask questions.

MATHEMATICS  Counting.  Recognising numerals 1 to 20.  Counting objects to 10, and beginning to count beyond 10.  Using the language of ‘more’ and ‘fewer’ to compare two sets of objects.  Finding the total number of items in two groups by counting all of them.  Estimating how many objects can be seen and checking by counting.

UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD  Exploring the use of senses to find out about the world around us.  Looking at and examining the weather : different seasons different clothes to wear appropriate to the weather  Looking at the local area going on an autumn walk. Learning about animals and insects found in the local area.  Learning about sharing and co-operation.  Festivals of Light.  Celebrating Harvest Festival.  Learning about Bonfire Night.  Celebrating Christmas.

EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND DESIGN  Exploring the workshop/painting areas and selecting the equipment needed.  Cutting and sticking all sorts of different things.  Learning how to use paper clips and staples to join things.  Discovering start and stop in a musical sense.  Understanding what silence is in music.  Listening to and making music with a steady beat.

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT  Learning about personal safety.  Experimenting with different ways of moving.  Travelling with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.  Handling tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.  Using a pencil and holding it effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed.