Language and Literacy

Communication with Makaton/Symbols.

· Core word of the week using reading, pointing, saying and signing.

Revising Words- don't, no, go, stop, finished, when, can,

here, open, turn, over, under and yes

Talking and Listening

· Experience and show interest in an interaction with an adult/peer;

· Experience, respond and engage with sensory stimulation; •

· Experience/encounter, respond to and develop a range of language and vocabulary

· Experience, encounter, and engage with a variety of communication interactions, communicators and situations.

· Participate in familiar rhymes, songs, stories and requests

· Encounter, experience and engage with options and choices e.g. choice boards

· Participate in asking and answering questions

· Identify environmental and animal sounds.

Reading

· Demonstrate reading behaviour when handling books

· Experience, respond and engage with a range of sensory stimuli, objects photos, stories and books

· Sounds write units 1 to the extended code

· To segment and blend to read vcc, cvcc, ccvc, ccvcc and cccvc words.

· Reading HFW words

· Shared reading of fiction and non fiction books about the farm

· Experience, listen with enjoyment and respond to stories and rhymes.

· Segment and blend sounds to make, match and read words.

· Match/read sounds, letters, words and sentences.

· Answer simple questions on a text.

Writing

· Develop a comfortable grip.

· Experience and respond to multi-sensory writing activities and recordings

· To match, recognise, order, trace and write my name including surname when ready.

· Segment sounds in words to write

· Write labels, lists and captions.

· Write dictated sentences. To trace a sentence. To copy a sentence.

· To write sentences using sentence starters. To begin to write my own sentence.

Fine Motor Skills

Some of the activities we will be involved in are:

· Taking part in dough disco activities focusing on rolling, squeezing, pinching and prodding.

· Manipulating playdoh, threading and using scissors.

· Using different equipment such as a knife, spoon and fork during weekly cooking sessions to spread, cut and mix.

· Engaging in sensory and messy play

Geography

· We are learning to recognise the variety of local buildings and what they are used for (P, I, COT)

· To recognise different viewpoints e.g. from above. (P)

· We are learning to recognise some of the jobs carried out by people in the local community. (M&E & I )

· We are learning how weather conditions affect people and animals e.g. winter/summer clothing/coats. (COT, M&E, P)

History

· We are learning to find out about what happened in the past through stories and memories. (P)

Science and Technology

· To recognise changes happening in everyday life. (COT & I)

· We are learning to recognise that there is a wide variety of animals and plants. (I, P)

· We are learning about animals and their young (I)

Using Mathematics

· Sort for one criterion using three property collections, resort for the second and third criteria and explain their work.

· Explore and talk about shapes and patterns in the environment.

· Create pictures and patterns with 2D shapes.

Using ICT

· Understand how to keep safe on the Internet and display acceptable online behaviour.

· Find and select information from a given source (Explore)

· Explore and interact with a digital device (Explore)

· Express ideas by creating pictures and composing text. (Express)

· Know that digital methods can be used to communicate (Exchange)

· Tal k about their work (Evaluate)

· Know that work can be printed (Exhibit)