| Subject | | Curriculum Info/Class Ideas |
| English | We will use various stories and fact books this half term to support our topic of animals.
Some of the stories are “Rumble in the Jungle”, “Commotion in the Ocean” and “How the Camel got his Hump”
We will continue to read each week and visit the library on a Friday to change our books.
Some of us will continue with our Phonics sessions and some of us will continue our listening and attention activities with the introduction of level 1 phonics activities.
We will give opportunity throughout the day for communication using, signing, symbols, core boards and spoken word.
| Please continue to sing with me. Nursery rhymes help me to hear rhyme and rhythm of speech and broaden my vocabulary and support my understanding.
Please read with me each week, looking at words and pictures, labelling things on the pages or asking me if I can find something all helps my language development.
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| Maths | This half term we will look at pattern, size and capacity and shapes. We will link our learning to the different animals we are learning about. | We can look for patterns in the environment, we can use anything at home to make repeating patterns, can you start a pattern and I finish it?
Can we see any animals out and about? Are they big or small?
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| PSHE | We will start our day with our good morning routine, finding our pictures and talking about how we feel using our Zones of Regulation. We have our calm zone in our class where we can explore our feelings throughout the day.
We will continue to have plenty of opportunities to play and learn alongside each other and some of us will be joining in turn taking games with our friends.
| You can help me identify how I am feeling by looking in mirrors, looking at my face and showing me how I’m feeling.
Please play games and activities with me where we can take turns such as pushing a car or ball to and from each other or playing on the swings at the park.
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| Science/ Understanding the World | We will look at the different habitats where animals live and where these are on our planet such as rainforests, deserts, Arctic and Antarctic and under the sea
| When we are in the garden or out and about point out the different things we can see such as tress, and plants, let me look at leaves and flowers, talk about the colours we can see. What are some of things that make our planet special? |
| P.E
| We will continue to practise our running and jumping and throwing. | I like to be active so any walks, trips to the park or running around outside is great for me. |
| Art/Expressive art and design | We will making lots of different animals using different media such as collage, paint and clay. | We can look at different books or programmes on the television with different animals. Talk to me about the colour and patterns we can see. |
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