Willow
Autumn Term: 2019-20
Topic: Bear Hunt / Forest
Mathematics Development
- Experimenting with symbols for numbers
- Helping to count, action songs and rhymes
- Matching numbers to numerals
- Constructing caves with blocks
- Matching pictures of bears / Matching bears by size
- Sequencing and daily routines
Personal Social & Emotional Development
- Turn-taking, supported by an adult
- Sharing resources
- Playing alongside others / Playing with peers
- Anticipating routines
- Asking for help
- Developing an understanding that some actions and words can hurt others
Communication & Language
- Listening and interacting with the stories
- Following a two-step instruction
- Exploring likes and dislikes
- Bucket therapy – attention building
- Understand simple sentences and instructions
- PODD books, chat boards and talking tiles
- Practising sounds and signs
Literacy
- Listening to a story in a group / 1:1
- Beginning to interact with the sensory story
- Beginning to recognise own name
- Using a variety of tools to make marks
- Making more defined marks, and show an awareness of making them
- Joining in with repeated refrains
Physical Development
- Climbing over and under
- Cooperating with dressing and nappy changing
- Increasing independence with eating skills
- Disco dough
- Cutting skills
- Parachute games
- Tumble Tots
- Swimming
Understanding of the World
- Nativity
- Looking at similarities and differences
- Understanding emotions sad/scared/happy/tired
- Forest School – bear hunt activities
- Developing small world play, and small bear hunt
- Visits with Bramble and other school animals
- Ginger Tiger activities
- Cause and effect games and toys
Expressive Arts and Design
- Junk modelling a cave
- Making binoculars
- Using glue to collage a cave picture
- Collaging a bear picture
- Christmas songs
- Playing instruments along with our story
- Moving through the story
- Differentiating sounds
Role Play
- Bear Cave
- Christmas story / Christmas morning
- Small world play
