Autumn Term

Literacy 

Our key text is the Three Little Pigs -

Initial sounds, retelling stories, predicting story endings, joining in with repeated refrains, name writing, rhyming strings, blending cvc words

Our key text is Funnybones - Story sequencing, blending cvc words, story maps, simple captions with cvc words, labelling

Maths

Counting

• Count forwards to 5

• Count backwards from 5

• Count objects, actions and sounds to 5

• Begin counting forwards to 10 towards the end of term

Subitising

• Perceptual subitising to 5

• Recognise familiar arrangements to 5

• Use fingers, dice and dot patterns

Composition

• Explore numbers to 5

• Understand numbers can be made in different ways

• Investigate parts and wholes within 5

Comparison

• More

• Fewer

• Same

Pattern

• AB patterns

• Copy, continue and create simple patterns

Understanding the World

Personal hygiene – hand washing and germs

Observing the life cycle of an Oak tree

Computing

We will be learning lots of drawing skills. We want to learn:

To be able to select colours.

To be able to mark make purposefully on the screen 

To be able to choose tools to experiment with. 

 To be able to control the pencil width 

History

Hospitals now and long ago

What are hospitals like now? What rules do we have in hospitals now - regarding hygiene?

Look at pictures of wards and operating theatres from now and in the past. How have they changed?

Briefly look at a famous nurse from the past - Florence Nightingale. Who was she? What did she do?

Geography

Our Local Area –

Local maps

Homes we live in

Our way to school - map the journey

Art

 Find out some facts about the artist James Rizzi

Creating collage and chalk building pictures in the style of Rizzi

D&T

House building (linked to 3 little pigs)

Straw, recycled materials, a range of joining materials

Using a range of materials 

joining (split pins) (linked to funnybones)

Can you put a skeleton together correctly?

Use split pins to show joints moving.

Seasonal - Making pumpkin pie

PE

PE is on a Monday. All children should come to school in PE kit.

During the first half of Autumn Term we will be improving our Core Strength & Balance 

During the second half of Autumn term we will  be developing our Locomotion - Travelling & Agility - footwork patterns & spatial awareness 

RE

We will be learning all about friendship in RE. We will talk about how to be a good friend and how to take care of each other.

We will also read some special stories

Online Safety

We will be identifying the rules that keep us safe and healthy online.

We will be able to describe ways in which people can be unkind online.

Music

We will be doing lots of singing in music this term.

We will find the beat in a song and tap out the rhythm