Literacy, Language and Communication Oracy Skills

• Retell the story of Rama and Sita • Talking about artists from around the world • Creating an advert for our enterprise products • Identifying rhyming words • Dictating words/phrases/sentences. • Jolly phonics songs/Read Write Inc sounds

Reading/Phonics Skills • Themed reading/library corner, book of the week display. • Story time – focus on reading left to right. • VCOP (vocab, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation) board – populate

with words from daily shared reading and writing. • Jolly Phonics games and songs, initial sounds ad blends. • Display names in class, self-registration. • Fact and fiction journey and transport books • Book/sound of the week. • Relate information from text to personal experience – where have you

been on holiday? • Books: The Naughty Bus; The Journey; The Jolly Christmas Postman;

We’re going on a bear hunt; The Nutcracker; Rama and Sita; Twas the night before Christmas; Atlas; Encyclopedia.

• Identifying phonics in name on a keyboard • Reading interactive stories on computer Writing • Mark making opportunities – paint, sand, tracing, large paper with pens

and pencils, water and brushes, chalks, messy play etc. • Penpals handwriting books • Daily carousel activities • Writing opportunities in all class areas • Hand exercises, flexibility and pencil hold (crocodile). • Overwriting and copying patterns/words/phrases • Writing challenge table using themed word mats and WOW words • Typing name using Pages/Seesaw • Writing invites for the Christmas concert • Writing labels for our enterprise products • Writing Christmas cards • PTA art exhibition • Letter to Father Christmas • Christmas list

Journeys near and far…

Topic Map Autumn 2 Term 2018

Reception Class

Mathematical Development Number Skills

• Daily CLIC activites (Little, Big Maths) • Counting up to 20 – Diwali I spy! • Counting back from 20 • Identifying numbers to 20 • Splat 100 – patterns, identifying numbers, what’s before/next? • Counting in 2’s and 10’s • Ordering numbers • Cbeebies/HWBICT counting games • Numicon focus activities and in continuous provision • Matching numbers to number names • I can take one away and answer ‘how many left?’

Measuring skills

• Identifying coins up to £1 at our post office and for our enterprise activities

• Days of the week, months of the year and seasons songs. • Outdoor weather station – thermometer • Time – what time is the register, break, lunch and home time?

Clocks on display – hip hop, what’s on the clock? Data Skills

• Repeating patterns - making Christmas bunting • Sorting and counting transport in Cowbridge then creating a

pictogram.

Health and Wellbeing

• Daily show and tell • Weekly circle time • Daily assemblies • Growth Mindset with the Little Miss and Mr Men • Trying new foods – Diwali, Christmas spices • Working as part of a group • Staying safe on the high street with Super Ted! • Fruit kebabs

Humanities

• Where is India? Create a digital fact file about the homes, the geography, the religion.

• Where in the world is our artist from? PTA exhibition activity • Where do reindeers live? What is their habitat? Creating a fact

sheet… • Discussing photographs of trips that they or their family

members have been on. who is in the photo? What was your favourite part of the trip? How did you get there?

• Russia - I can discuss the habitat, the animals, the temperature and compare and contrast against our lives in Wales

• Creating my Christingle and understanding what each part of the Christingle means…

ICT/Digital Competency

• Using a word processing document to create a label for our enterprise document, saving then printing.

• Taking photos of different types of transport in Cowbridge.

• Identifying technology in the classroom and its use.

• Creating a digital painting

Welsh Language Development

• Greeting ‘bore da’ ‘hwyl fawr’ hwyl fawr ffrindiau song…. • Following commands - Gwrandewch, ‘Dyma’r ffordd i olchi dwylo’

(wash hands), amser snac • Flic a Flac/Tedi a Doli ‘dyma fi’; Pwy wyt ti? Sut wyt ti? ….ydw i,

wedi blino, iawn etc • HWB resources • Diolch/os gwelwch yn dda • Un, dau, tri, pedwar, pump etc up to 15 • Following commands ‘amser chwarae’ ‘amser snac’ etc • Sut mae’r tywydd heddiw? Mae hi’n …….gymylog, wyntog, heulog,

bwrw glaw, bwrw eira, braf, stormus. • Penblwydd Hapus • Ble mae? Where is? • Coch, melyn, oren, gwyrdd, glas, du, llwyd, porfor, pinc, brown. • Gwrandewch/ amser tacluso / amser chwarae / amser cinio etc. • Welsh Christmas songs

RE

• This terms value – Understanding and perseverance

• Hinduism • Christmas • Weekly assembly with Rev Heather

Creative Development Music

• Christmas concert songs • Putting percussion instruments to our stories • Music cupboard free choice – can you make Autumn/Winter

sounds

Art & Craft • Designing and decorating Diwali diva lamps • PTA art exhibition • Designing then creating our enterprise craft • Christmas cards and craft • Baking gingerbread, cinnamon and ginger biscuits

Continuous Provision/Role Play/Outside Playdough

• Playdough mats; Diwali lamps; letter and numbers; winter animals, cutters, rollers, stamps,

Construction • Lego, mobile, marble run, cogs and wheels, stickle

bricks, pegs and boards, elastic bands and boards, drill and screw boards, Numicon

Small world • Animals, cars, garages, dolls houses, tuff spot,

wooden blocks. Role-play

• Post office, weighing scales, money, packages. Outside

• Mud kitchen; construction, sand, building blocks, den, chalking, paintbrushes, looking after the plants.

Physical Development

• Ball skills – show control in throwing and catching; control over a large ball; take part in team games involving ball skills.

• Dance – Christmas concert • Developing playground games