Week beginning 20/10/14

RE

We are going to talk about the different ways we are special and that we are special because God has given us lots of gifts. We will discuss presents and our special gifts eg. What are we good at?
We will bring our present to the carpet and talk to a talk partner about the gifts that God has given us.
We will celebrate in a prayer service, lighting a candle, to thank God our Father for our gifts and the gifts He has given others. We will read a story from the Bible and talk about the Wednesday Word.

Communication, language and literacy

We will read story of “Oliver’s Vegetables” – discuss, ask and answer questions about the story / retell the story verbally focussing on the story order.
We will play a play a game of silly soup – identifying objects by their initial sound. Focusing on letters s and j.
We will continue to sing Nursery rhymes focussing on the rhyming word we can hear and think of new words that rhyme.
We will continue to learn how to write our letters and hold our pencil correctly.

Mathematics

Using the story of Oliver’s Vegetables – we are going to add the correct amount of carrots and onions to numeral on the allotment. We will match the correct amount of vegetables to a given number, knowing when to stop counting! We will talk about what we are doing using mathematical language e.g. more, less, how many?
We will sit in a circle and play the count around game and focus on our shape and sound of the day. We will also have fun printing with vegetables and writing the correct amount.

Physical Development

Some of our Physical activities:-

1-     Dressing before and after PE independently.

2-    Dance – matching body actions to music. Nursery rhyme CD

3-    Outdoor wheeled toys, bikes, scooters, hoops.

4-    3 supported handwriting sessions per week

5-     Healthy eating – Eating Fruit and veg – relate to pumpkins

Understanding the world/Expressive arts and design.

Pumpkins – children to examine a pumpkin and discuss its look, texture and feel.

Netbooks.

Decay – what happens to fruit when it decays?

Charanga. And Music Express – new songs, percussion instruments, rhythm

Fruit painting and leaf printing.