| Each week we will explore a new story related to our current topic. During each week we will engage in a number of activities that are topic related. Your child will be encouraged and supported to explore and engage in each of these activities at a level that meets their individual needs. The holistic approach to learning in Seals class will allow your child to progress at a pace that is suitable to their individual needs and abilities within a rich and enabling environment.
Your child will regularly bring home information on their individual learning targets, individual targets may change in line with the topic, as and when experienced or consolidated. Each pupil will have individualised timetables to work alongside our class time table. Each individual timetable highlights targets taken from your child’s personal targets such as EHCPs, Sensory enrichment plans and communication plans. Your Son/Daughter’s individual timetables and current PLGs were sent home at the beginning of the term, if you have any questions or require an additional copy please do feel free to contact me.
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| Curriculum Area | Subjects and ideas for home |
| Dinosaurs | Each activity will be linked to our topic of ‘Dinosaurs’ or directly to the story of the week.
We will be exploring the following stories-
• Hide-a-saurus Rex
• Stomp Dinosaur Stomp
• Tyson the Terrible
• A Dinosaur called Tiny
• Harry and the Dinosaurs say ‘Raahh’
Total Communication will be running throughout each activity and working alongside children’s individual Communication plans, we will be learning topic related words/signs and symbols found in our stories. We will continue to work throughout the half term on contextual words that support requests, play and social situations.
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| Daily Activities | As is our class routine, each day after registration we will continue to take part in a number of activities such as –
Number songs
• Engaging in counting behaviours
• Exploring numbers 1-5, recognition of numerals
• Order of numbers
Disco dough
● Exploring listening skills and comprehension.
● Fine motor skills and dexterity
● Following direction-pinch, roll, splat etc., forward, backward, numbers 1-5
● Tactile discrimination
Wake up shake up
● Exploring listening skills and comprehension, following instructions
● Gross motor-wake up shake up.
● Recognition of body parts, feet, hands etc.
● Moving around the room safely/spatial awareness.
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| Multi-sensory Listening and Attention | We will be exploring our individual PLGs and communication targets/SaLT programmes. This will involve attention and anticipation activities, following instruction in activity songs, exploring our listening skills in line with music and expressing our preferences to stimuli. |
| Maths/Problem solving | In maths we will be taking part in activities exploring: Identifying and ordering numbers, exploring and manipulating 2D and 3D shapes as well as exploring everyday patterns and routines during our school week. |
| Communication/English | We will be exploring the stories above through daily story time, mark-making activities, listening activities, and activities focussed on the characters or theme of story, during this time we will be focussing on:
•Having some favourite books or stories
•Listening to stories with increasing attention and recall.
•Tolerating hand over hand support from adult during play/learning activity e.g. to complete a task, to request/exchange a PECS symbol.
•Beginning to understand the cause and effect of our actions in their mark making.
• Demonstrating pleasure/interest in drawing and writing on paper and/or in different media, e.g. in sand or playdough, foam, paint, styling gel.
•Showing increasing control in holding, using and manipulating a range of mark making tools.
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| Creative (Art, Craft and DT) | In Creative we will be exploring different materials to create our Dinosaur Art. We will be encouraging participation to use different textured paints, materials and mould clay to make Dinosaur shapes. We will use different tools to find our Dinosaurs in exploration trays with ice, sand, water and slime. |
| Exploration and investigation | We will work on the area of ‘Understanding the World’ and ‘Imagination and Expression’ such using everyday materials linked to our stories to explore, understand and represent our world - ideas, interests and fascinations ad exploring emotions linked to make believe situations or characters found in our stories. |
| Motor skills development
| As well as our usual motor skills activities such as; Pencil control, hand eye co-ordination activities and puzzles, we will be exploring how to use switches for cause and effect. We will continue to work on our individual physio and SE plans alongside our motor skills too, including fine motor skills to develop independence (holding cup, cutlery, isolating fingers to point manipulate objects.), we will also explore puzzles and activities which are linked to our topic such as ‘Dinosaur’ puzzles and games.
In P.E we will be moving around the Hall in different ways like a Dinosaur. We will use different equipment to move along, over and under. We will encourage participation with each other to work together to play Dinosaur games.
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| Personal development/PSHE | This will be woven in through our weekly activities, exploring pupils individual PLG’s, aspirations and feelings. |
| Cooking | We will be following simple recipes using symbols to create Dinosaur themed snacks. We will help each other to use different measuring tools and tools to mix, roll, chop and mould. Some of our snacks we will make include Dinosaur shaped sandwiches, Fossil biscuits, Prehistoric pancakes, Dinosaur eggs and Dino cakes. |
| Dance | On a Friday morning we will be taking part in dance session with Lauren, No Limits inclusive dance. This will provide us with further opportunity to explore our motor skills, sensory regulation and our enjoyment of movement. |
| Things to try at home. | This topic lends itself to lots of opportunities to explore imagination and expression-
• At home you might wish to explore digging activities, in your garden or in a sensory tray to see what you can find.
• You may have dinosaur toys/soft toys to play with, modelling interactions and scenarios, exploring emotions.
• Maybe pretend to be dinosaurs yourselves, taking big strides across the garden/park, play chase to see who can catch who, or race each other to see who is 1st.
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| Please do feel free to explore individual targets at home, it would be great to hear about your child’s experiences via their home School book or EfL, |
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