| Subject | | Curriculum Info/Class Ideas |
| Literacy | Please read with me, sing with me, highlight and point out logos and images I see regularly.
I am learning to sign and use symbols to communicate. You can help me to make choices between snacks, objects or clothing. Show me two things (that you are happy for me to choose from) and let me make a choice!
| This half term we will be looking at a variety of books linked to our topic Dinosaurs. We will look at both fiction and non-fiction and learn to find out information about dinosaurs. We will make some fact files about dinosaurs!
We will continue with our phonics sessions and our listening and attention activities including lots of singing and moving our bodies.
We will also be continuing our core vocabulary curriculum, learning the first 40 words children need for communication. We will see it, sign it, say it and find it on our core communication boards, whichever is most appropriate for each individual child.
We will also continue to visit the library weekly and read with each child once a week.
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| Maths | Help me notice things that are big and small, tall and short or long and short. We can try and find the longest pair of trousers in the washing or the smallest sock! | We will be using the White Rose Maths programme in maths exploring number, shape, space and measure. We will compare sizes of dinosaurs and try and order them in size. We will make dinosaurs using different shapes and we will use number to count dinosaurs, compare groups of dinosaurs and add groups of dinosaurs together. We will use songs, rhymes and stories to help us learn. |
| Personal Development | When I am showing different emotions you can help label them for me “I think you are feeling happy, I can see your smile”. If you need resources linked to our zones of regulation please ask Becky and the Dolphins team. | We are all beginning to understand and identify how we feel in the morning using our talking tiles, we can use happy, sad, excited and angry. We will continue with this every morning as part of our good morning routine. We will also continue to use our zones of regulation throughout the day to help show and talk about how we are feeling. We will continue Attention Autism sessions as this helps us with attending to all our other learning times.
We will continue to play and explore alongside each other building our friendships in class and learning to share resources and take turns,
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| The World | To help me learn about past and present (old and now/new) you could show me some photos of family members when they were little and photos of them now, or photos of me as a baby. | This half term our topic is Dinosaurs. We will learn about the different types of dinosaurs and sort them; herbivores and carnivores; living on land and sea, and which ones can fly; and sort them by size. We will begin to learn that they lived millions of years ago and which dinosaurs lived together in the different periods of time. We will become archaeologists and hunt for ‘fossils’ in the sand, make prints, ‘bones’ and ‘teeth’ with clay, and maybe even discover some dinosaur eggs in a nest! |
| Expressive Arts | You can listen to different types of music with me, I may find something new I like. Stop and start the songs, it helps me to ask for ‘more’ | Art – we will use clay to make dinosaurs, foot prints, bones and teeth. We will make dinosaur skeletons using art straws and pasta.
Music – we will learn some dinosaur songs and explore instruments, making sounds for different dinosaurs.
D&T – we will make some dinosaurs out of ‘junk’, and do some dinosaur baking
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| Physical Development | I have lots of energy and like to be active but I also need to learn to rest, both are important. | We will continue to listen to and join in the actions and dance for our warm up songs – ‘DJ Raphi’, head shoulders knees and toes, freeze dance and if you’re happy and you know it are our current favourites. We will practice our yoga, balancing and climbing this half term. |
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