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Teacher - Shells
Jen Armstrong

Autumn Term 2 2020 | Book | English | Maths and Art | Science and Art |
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Week 1 | Noisy Farm | phonics listening games (farm animals) | different sizes of circles | grouping natural materials by colour or shape, making a bonfire sculpture |
Week 2 | Noisy Farm | repetitive phrases | positioning of circles; circles outside | grouping materials by their use, making circles |
Week 3 | Dear Zoo | making predictions | squares and the number 4 | exploring properties of different materials, e.g. tearable |
Week 4 | Dear Zoo | phonics listening games (zoo animals) | rectangles – drawing our own for a lift the flap book | exploring properties of different materials, e.g. waterproof |
Week 5 | Animal Rhymes | rhyming words | triangles and repeating patterns | making own sculptures |
Week 6 | Dear Santa | writing for our own lift the flap book | making and illustrating our own lift the flap book | making wrapping paper |
Week 7 | Dear Santa | writing for our own lift the flap book | making and illustrating our own lift the flap book | making wrapping paper |
To support your child at home, you could: • Go on a nature walk and collect natural objects • Sort objects by colour, shape, size • Use positional language to play games, such as jump on top of the leaves, put the pencil under the table • Read their individual reading book and their chosen library book • Play listening games – who can be the first to hear 5 different sounds? • Read some Rod Campbell books together • Look at Kandinsky and Goldsworthy art websites | Books – all by author Rod Campbell Each fortnight we will read together a book by Rod Campbell, which will inspire our phonics, and our writing. The reading focus is on repetitive phrases and predictions. We will also use the animals in the books as our yoga poses during PE. | Maths inspired by Kandinsky Each fortnight we will explore a different 2D shape, and create either a piece of art or a lift the flap page for a book. We will be looking at sizes of shapes and positions of shapes, using positional language. | Science and art – inspired by Andy Goldsworthy We will be focussing upon finding materials and grouping them in different ways, including by what material they are made from. We will use the materials to create sculptures in spired by Andy Goldsworthy, focussing on texture and shapes. | |