Autumn Term

Pre-phonics

Children will be learning how to use good listening ears, good listening eyes and how to sit on the carpet ready for Phonics. 

Children will develop their eye contact and develop focus on the carpet.

Children will engage in listening games, sound games, exploring body percussion and instrumental sounds.

They will begin to explore rhythm and rhyme. All of these skills prepare children to begin Phonics later in the year.

Communication, Language and Literacy 

During this term we will be focusing on key Nursery Rhymes including The Wheels on the Bus, Row row row your boat, Incy Wincy Spider, Miss Polly had a dolly, Humpty Dumpty and Five little firemen.  We will learn these rhymes together and use actions and role play to support children's language, understanding, retelling, and remembering as well as promoting a love of rhymes and stories. 

Supporting stories include: You can’t take an elephant on a bus, Water, The Aargh Spider, Room on the Broom, The Leaf Thief.

Later in the term we will begin to focus on Christmas stories including The Nativity, Dear Santa, Stick Man, Peppa’s First Christmas. 

Maths

During this term we will be learning all about colours, matching, sorting and pattern. This will be taught in a practical way using lots of songs, stories and objects to support children's understanding. 

We will learn all about Number 1 and 2 by using the Numberblocks characters, counting using objects and pictures, recognising  the numeral, exploring dot patterns, and begin to subitise these amounts. 

Understanding the World 

Our science topics will link to our Nursery Rhyme of the week. During the term we will be exploring vehicles and finding out which vehicles move faster using ramps and tunnels.  How can we make them faster or slower? How else can we make the vehicles go?

We will also be finding out all about spiders; what do they look like? Where do they live? How do they make their webs? 

As part of the People who help us topic we will find out how to keep ourselves healthy.

Computing

 This term we will be developing our drawing skills using our Purple Mash paint resources online. All children will receive a log in for this so they can practise their skills at home too. 

Children will have a go at selecting their own colours, making purposeful marks, control the pencil width, select tools, use 'undo' and 'erase'.

Understanding the world

As part of our People who help us topic we will begin to find out about the lives of people today such as doctors, nurses, policemen, firemen, paramedics.  We will also look at old photographs of people who help us to see how they have changed.  We will find out what jobs are in our families and talk about jobs we might want to do when we grow up. 

Understanding the World 

As part of our all about me week we will talk about where we live in the town of Brownhills. We will look at pictures of houses in the streets that children live and find out about key places in Brownhills the children like to visit. We will explore the area using google street maps to see if children recognise their favourite places. 

We will also explore what happens during the season of Autumn. 

Expressive Arts and Design

 Our chosen artist for this term is Jackson Pollock. He was famous for action painting so the children will have a go at making a large scale piece of artwork by using a drip painting technique. 

During Autumn 2 we will be exploring firework artwork and making Christmas artwork.

Expressive Arts and Design

During DT the children will have the opportunity to explore junk modelling materials and make some models linked to our Nursery rhyme vehicles such as buses and boats.  The children will learn how to cut and join materials. 

Personal Social Emotional Development 

During this term we will be exploring the topic "Me and My School."  We will begin to understand our school rules and routines and be able to follow them, and to use the names of the children and adults they meet in school. 

We will then move on to "Me and my safety" where we will learn all about using tools and equipment safely, how to keep themselves safe, and talk about some of the ways to keep safe around dogs. 

Expressive Arts and Design 

During this term we will introduce the children to our music scheme 'Sing up' and learn some songs all about making new friends. 

We will also be learning lots of new Christmas songs ready for our Nativity Play. 

Physical Development

As part of our outdoor provision we will be developing our gross motor skills by climbing, balancing, building, and exploring gross motor mark making.

Indoors we will be starting a new programme called “Wiggle me into a squiggle” where children will learn gross motor movement shapes for mark making.

Online Safety

We will be finding out about the technology around us and how we can use it safely.

Talk about general online safety messages e.g. should be supervised, age appropriate, personal details, who to tell if there is a problem.

Executive Functioning Skills 

Play alongside other children.

Improve my fine motor skills by threading beads.

Pull my trousers up.

Sit on a chair safely. 

Begin to put on coat independently – magic coat

Begin to complete inset puzzles
Begin to tidy up
Begin to follow along to nursery rhymes/movement songs.