Information - Foundation
Stage/ Year 1
Curriculum Newsletter
THEME - MYSELF (Autumn Term 2006)
Personal, social and emotional development
- Talking about home and family activities.
- Sharing family events - holidays, day trips, visiting
friends and family.
- Discussion about starting school and groups which they
have belonged to in the past e.g. Toddler group, Pre School,
Nursery.
- Belonging - family, school.
- Feelings - talking about their own feelings and being
aware of the feelings of others.
- Our senses - valuing our senses and thinking of others
less fortunate than ourselves.
- Special times and places - birthdays, family events,
Harvest.
Communication, language and literacy
- Discussions about self, family and home activities.
- Becoming familiar with written words connected with
self, family, homes and school.
- Discriminating phonemes at the beginning of words.
- Recognising letters by shape and sound.
- Describing physical appearances of self and
friends within the class.
- Writing labels for classroom displays.
- Listening to a variety of stories and poems.
Mathematical development
- Learning a variety of number rhymes and songs.
- Counting to ten and beyond.
- Counting back from ten to zero.
- Developing an understanding of addition and subtraction.
- Sorting themselves into sets according to hair, eye
colour etc.
- Making comparisons of height, hand size, shoe size.
- Recognising and describing the properties of 2d shape.
- Collecting data, favourite colour, food etc. and
representing this information in the form of block graphs.
Knowledge and understanding of the world
- Talking about similarities and differences between
others and ourselves.
- Naming body parts.
- Health, food and hygiene.
- Our senses - a variety of simple experiments involving
touch, taste, smell, and sight.
- Making mobiles of happy/sad faces.
- Designing and making a percussion instrument.
Creative development
- Experimenting with colour, mark making and painting
techniques.
- Working with clay.
- Observational drawing.
- Listening to a variety of music.
- Experimenting with percussion instruments.
- Role-play - The Optician, The Shoe Shop.
Physical development
- Recognizing the importance of keeping healthy.
- Recognizing the changes that happen to their bodies when
they are active.
- Travelling around, under, over and through balancing and
climbing equipment.
- Developing and refining skills in using and controlling
a range of small and large equipment.
ICT
- Using a cassette player and headphones.
- Using telephones in role-play.
- Using the Interactive whiteboard
- Using a variety of CD ROMS to develop skills in Literacy
and Mathematics.
Things that you may like to do at home ……….
- Visit the library.
- Collect boxes for our junk modelling.
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