Weekly Focus and Themes Foundation Learning Through Play Autumn 2012

Week 1 All about me! Week2 School Centenary Nursery Rhymes Week 3 and Week 4 Taken from childrens interests Come and Play Week 10 and Week 11 Taken from childrens interests Letters and Sounds tea party Week 5 and Week 6 Traditional Tales Week 12 and Week 13 Advent, Nativity and Santas workshop Week 7 Out and about in the Autumn Week 14 Christmas and Party preparations

Week 8 and Week 9 Rocket Adventures and festivals of light

Areas of Learning Focus of Learning

Personal Social and Emotional Development Making relationships: Initiate conversation and listen to what others have to say. Self confidence and self awareness: Be confident to try new activities. Talk about likes and dislikes. Managing feelings and behaviour: Aware of classroom rules and boundaries and expectations in the FSU unit. Begin to negotiate and solve problems in their play. Physical Development Communication and Language Moving and handling Listening and attention Gross motor skills Maintain attention, concentrate and sit Move with confidence, imagination and quietly during whole class activities. safety. Understanding Leap into life programme. Respond to instructions following a two part sequence. Swimming. Speaking Fine motor skills Explore the meaning and sound of new words. Demonstrate fine motor control and coordination. Use language to imagine and recreate roles and Recognise the changes that happen to their body when experiences in their play. they are active. Introduce a story line or narrative into their play. Health and self care Manage own basic hygiene and personal needs successfully. Talk about ways of staying healthy and safe. Understands how to transport and store equipment safely e.g. scissors, big bricks, activity boxes etc. Mathematics Understanding of the World Expressive Arts and Design Numbers Exploring and using media Recognise, count, order and write People and communities and materials numbers to 10 and beyond. Talk about past and present Begin to build a repertoire of Use developing mathematical ideas to events in their own lives and in the lives songs and dances. solve practical problems. of their families. Explore the different sounds of instruments. Shape, space and measure The world Explore what happens when they mix Uses familiar objects and common Investigate places, objects, materials colours. shapes to create and recreate patterns and living things. Construct with a purpose in mind using a and build models. variety of resources. Begin to use mathematical names for 2d Technology Being Imaginative and 3d shapes and is able to describe Complete a simple program on the Create simple representations of events, them. computer people and objects. Use ICT hardware to interact with a Choose particular colours for a purpose. . range of age specific software. Introduce a storyline or narrative into their play.

Literacy Reading Hear and say the initial sounds in words. Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together. Enjoy an increasing range of books. Writing Give meaning to marks they make as they draw, write and paint. Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly.