Autumn 2 - Light it up and Festivals 

Key Text:

Diwali Books.

Night time Animals.

Toffees Night Noises. 

Whatever Next.

Owl Babies.  

Communication and Language:

Children will learn to: 

• Listen to simple stories and understand what is happening, with the help of the pictures.
• Recognise and point to objects if asked about them.
• Use a wider range of vocabulary.
• Enjoy listening to longer stories and can remember much of what happens.
• Understand 'why' questions, like "Why do you think he caterpillar got so fat?"
• Talk about nocturnal animals and name some.

Personal Social Emotional Development.

Children will learn to:

• Establish their sense of self.
• Play with increasing confidence on their own and with other children.
• Show more confidence in new social situations.
• To be able to play and talk nicely with their friends and to share the different resources in the areas of learning.
• Develop appropriate ways of being assertive.

Physical Development

Children will learn to:

•  Use large and small motor skills to do things independently, for example manage buttons and zips, and pour drinks.
•  Show an increasing desire to be independent, such as wanting to feed themselves and dress or undress.
• Be increasingly independent as they get dressed and undressed, for example, putting coats on and doing up zips.
• Continue to develop their movement and ball skills.
• Be able to use and remember sequences and patterns of movement which are related music and rhythm

Literacy

Children will learn to:

• Choose a hand to hold a pencil
• Hold the pencil in a comfortable grip
• Can draw/ make marks and talk about them.
•  Enjoy sharing books with an adult.
• Pay attention and responds to the pictures or the words.
• Ask questions about the book.
• Makes comments and shares their own ideas.
• Understand key concepts about print. 
• That print has meaning
•  To name the different parts of a book
• That we read English text from left to right and from top to bottom
• Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary.                                                   

Mathematical Development

Children will learn to:

• Count in everyday contexts, sometimes skipping numbers - ‘1-2-3-5.’
• Use counting-like behaviour such as making sounds, pointing or saying some numbers in sequence.
• Say one number for each item in order: 1,2,3,4,5.
•  Make comparisons between objects.
• Talk about and identify the patterns around them. For example: stripes on clothes, designs on rugs and wallpaper.
• Use informal language like ‘pointy’, ‘spotty’, ‘blobs’ 
• Comparing amounts, saying "lots", "more" or "same".

Understanding of the World

Children will learn to:

• Explore natural materials, indoors and outside.
• Explore materials with different properties.
•  Explore how things work.
• Talk about what they see, using a wide vocabulary.
• Plant seeds and care for growing plants.
• Begin to understand the need to respect and care for the natural environment and all living things.

Expressive Arts and Design:

Children will learn to:

• Show attention to sounds and music.
• Enjoy and take part in action songs, such as ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’.
• Play instruments with increasing control.
• Remember and sing entire songs.
• To be able to use their imagination in the  ‘Light Den’ to use the different resources and to talk about how they work. 
•  Explore different materials, using all their senses to investigate them.
• Be able to use the nocturnal animal sounds in my role play.