EYFS Curriculum Overview Autumn 2 LET'S CELEBRATE

Topic Overview

Celebrations!

Understanding the World

We will be looking at celebrations we like and are familiar with as well as making links to where in the world some celebrations come from/originate

In addition, we will continue to work on our friendships, sharing and taking turns.

We will continue our visits to Forest School—using our senses.

Key Vocabulary:

  • Environment, Climate, Weather, place
  • Saint, United Kingdom, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland
  • Christmas, Religious, Diwali, celebration, Hannukah, Holi
  • Similar, Different, Compare
Communication and Language

Communication and Language

We continue to learn to talk about ourselves in a positive way.

We will learn to listen to each other and our grown-ups in small groups and on our carpet.

We will listen to stories and sing lots of songs and we will learn some Christmas songs too.

We will learn lots of new words see our vocabulary list.

If you have a celebration you celebrate at home, whatever the time of year, please feel free to send in some information about it via Tapestry so we can discuss this as part of our small group work and circle times.

English

Reading: We continue to have a love of books in Early Years and this half term is no exception.

  • We will be sharing our Core Texts, retelling them and talking about our favourite parts.
  • We will use stories linked to celebrations.
  • We will be discussing authors and their important role in our lives.
  • We will be sorting fiction and non-fiction books.

Our Reading areas are cosy and the children will get chance to share some of the stories we have had already across Early Years as well a special themed shelf too.

Reception children will be voting for their favourite story out of two at our Story Voting Area.

Writing: We will be really encouraging our children to hold their pencils in a comfortable and effective way and ensuring they are using Tommy Thumb and Peter Pointer fingers to help. We will continue to enjoy Dough Disco and Squiggle whilst you Wiggle.

Reception children are working on writing simple CVC words to match pictures using their phonic knowledge.

Nursery will be exploring mark making in a variety of ways.

Phonics

Nursery children will be beginning to blend sounds in words in their play as well as listening for the first sound in things and trying to match them.

Reception children will continue to learn new phonemes and graphemes following the Little Wandle Phonic programme.

Reception children will be working on reading words by both sounding them out and blending and reading on sight.

At school we use the Little Wandle program and there is a great part of the website just for parents/carers: https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/ Take a look at the following resources:

Support for tricky words Reception Autumn term
Reception Autumn 2 sounds
Phase 2 Autumn 2 Reception Sound Videos
VERY useful videos

Maths

In Nursery we will be concentrating on saying, recognising and counting numbers to 5.

  • We will be sharing number rhymes.
  • We will be playing with shapes, measures and early mathematical language.
  • We will look for numbers in our environment.

In Reception we will continue to have maths activities and language in our play.

  • We will be working on comparing numbers to 5.
  • We will look at the composition of 4 and 5.
  • We will be looking at circles and triangles.

How can I help?

This half term the children will be taking part in a sponsored Nursery rhyme singing session as part of World Nursery Rhyme week.

Look out for a sponsor form coming soon. We will use this money to buy new resources for the children to use.

We love to junk model! Please send in any cardboard boxes, tubes, pots etc NO egg boxes, NO nut product boxes, NO medication boxes.

Please ensure ALL uniform is named—this includes shoes.

Computing

E-Safety will play a big part of our introduction to computing in Early Years we will explore a range of stories explaining to us how we can we safe when we use iPads and computers.

Expressive Art and Design

This half term we will learn about Kandinsky and we will be exploring some of the techniques he used in our art work.

Music

In Reception, we will be exploring music that we listen to at celebrations as well as looking at moving to music. We will be learning songs for our first Nativity.

In Nursery, we will continue to learn familiar songs as well as learning Christmas songs for our performance.

Physical Development

This half term we are learning to move around a space in a variety of ways

We will continue to use triangle to work on our Physical development, developing our climbing and balancing and strengthening our muscles.

Reception will continue to develop their skills in P.E as part of their sessions.

PSHE and Religious Education

PSHE

Our big question this half term is…

Nursery – What helps me?

Reception – What things do I like best?

Religious Education

This half term we exploring a variety of different celebrations. We will be learning about who celebrates what and why. We will also be learning about traditions and cultures and what these celebrations look like. We will experience these celebrations through our play and opportunities during continuous provision. We will make links with our local community and ask our Archibald families to share their celebrations with the children in EYFS.

Spanish

This half term Nursery will be consolidating their knowledge of Spanish greetings. Reception children will be learning about transport. We will recognise, recall and remember different modes of transport. We will also listen to, understand and learn a Spanish song about transport.

Our Values

Please Instagram us @archibald_1st if you see your child being #AFSCurious #AFSCaring #AFSCreative or #AFSCourageous

If you would like any further details about this half term's curriculum, please speak to your child's teacher.