| 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.
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, here are the themes we will follow this half term, including key signs and stories of the week.
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| Curriculum Area | Subjects and ideas for home |
| Traditional
Stories
| Each activity will be linked to our topic of ‘Traditional stories’ or directly to the story of the week.
We will be exploring the following stories-
• The Gingerbread Man.
• Little Red Riding Hood.
• Jack and the Beanstalk.
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
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 items by size; Identifying numerals and making sets of items, as well as positional language. |
| 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 making things related to our stories. This will include gingerbread men biscuits, gingerbread men masks, Red Riding Hood puppets, muffins and making playdough to mould to make figures related to our stories. |
| 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.) In P.E we will be using lights and lasers to move to, making up dances and using light up balls and balloons to play games to work together and interact with each other. |
| Personal development/PSHE | This will be woven in through our weekly activities, exploring pupils individual PLG’s, aspirations and feelings. |
| Cooking | This half-term we will be exploring recipes related to our stories of the week, such as ginger bread, bread, muffins etc. We will take this opportunity to explore safety in the home, particularly the kitchen area. |
| Relaxation | To draw our busy week to a close we will take part in a number of relaxation activities on a Friday afternoon, such as yoga, foot spas, massage mats and time for reflection. We will explore how we feel before, during and after these sessions as well as how to activate such resources. |
| Things to try at home. | • At home you might wish to explore/discuss different traditional stories, exploring the characters, environments and situation in each story, do you have a favourite?
• Try involving your child in choosing which book they would like to be read to them, or find an audio copy of their favourite traditional story.
• Have you got any soft toys/puppets relating to traditional stories that you and your child can role play with? You may wish to explore how the characters feels in the stories, or if your child has a preference to a particular character and why. This would be great for communication and exploring feelings too.
• If you have a library membership it might be interesting to explore books that you don’t have at home, alternatively many traditional stories have been turned in to short films or rhymes.
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