Sparkly Light Festivals & Celebrations

Communication and Language

Children will learn to:

•  Look at and talk about different festivals and celebrations such as Diwali and Christmas. 
• Engage in different activities such as writing cards and talking about how Christians and Hindus celebrate these festivals.
• Learn about some traditional tales such as Goldilocks and The Three Bears story and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
• Role play and retell the stories using book language such as once upon a time, the next day.
• Focus on a beginning, a middle and an ending to our stories and begin to create our own stories.
• Learning new words such as fireworks, rangoli, battle, kidnap.

Personal Social and Emotional Development

Children will learn to:

• Play alongside other children
• Play with one other child
• Share and take turns with the equipment
• Know the class charter and continue to follow the rules set in Autumn 1
• To begin to identify and name their feelings in the morning such as I feel happy, sad or worried and to talk about this.

Physical Development

Children will learn to:

• Use the large equipment outside such as target practice, hoppers and spinning tops, bean bags and ribbons.
• Use large movements to develop large muscles such as running, crawling, hopping and skipping.
• Work with others to learn outdoor games such as Farmer's in the Den and Whats the time Mr wolf.
• Develop small motor skills using a range of tools such as pencils, crayons, felt tips, paint brushes and chalks.
• Negotiates space when running, jumping and chasing outside; adjusting speed or changing direction.

Literacy

Key texts: Non-fiction books about Diwali and Christmas,

Goldilocks and the three bears and Three Billy goats gruff.

Children will learn to:

• Tell and re-tell known and familiar stories
• Listen to a wide range of stories and poems and rhymes
• Learn new songs in Music 
• Learn the phonemes of the graphemes s,a,t,p,i,n,m,d,g,o,c,k ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, j, v, w, x
• read phase 2 tricky words and start to blend words with two letters such as at, am, up, is, it, on, an, of
• Learn how to write a card
• Write a story map about the key text

Mathematics

Key Books: 1,2,3 at the Zoo, Round is the Moon cake, 5 Little Fiends, Bear n a Square.

Children will learn to:

• Represent, sort, match and compare 1,2,3,4,5
• Composite and to arrange of 4 and 5
• Compare one more and one less 
• Identify the properties of 2 D flat shapes such as circle, triangle, square and rectangle. To sort and make shape pictures.
• Sequence an activity.

Understanding the World

Children will learn to:

• Differentiate the different beliefs and that people celebrate special times like Diwali and Christmas in different ways.
• See the changes in the natural world and identify the seasons.
• Use technology for their own purposes such as games on IWB.

Expressive Arts and Design

Children will learn to:

• Explore colour and colour mixing.
• Explore different textures such as fabric, clay, paint and collage work.
• Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques.
• Sing in a group and build their own repertoire of songs and nursery rhymes.