1. Expressive Arts and Design Free Painting – range of colours, paper sizes and tools, colour mixing and shading. Role play – village post office and stores, designing stamps and stationery Using pastels and chalks to create firework pictures. Making paper Making poppies for Remembrance day. Making kites Using natural resources to create environmental art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy Making clay houses (Christmas presents) Cutting, sticking and building model houses using 3D shapes. Making and decorating biscuit houses Creating river collages and paintings inspired by Edwin Young and visits to the river (Take One Picture) Practicing the Christmas Nativity show with songs and dances Making Christmas cards to incorporate a ‘lever’ Personal, Social and Emotional Development Discussion about firework safety and thoughts/ feelings when watching them. Thinking of dangers when we are out and about on local walks and how we can keep safe. Thinking about road safety. Understanding the expectations of behaviour when on a school trip and gaining confidence to ask adults for help if unsure. Finding out about people who help us in our community. Visiting the local war memorial and finding out about Remembrance Day and the significance of poppies. Thinking about what our families do at Christmas – what are they looking forward to? How do you celebrate Christmas? Emphasising concepts of giving and sharing. Creating a class Trussel Trust Christmas Box. Oak's Topic Plan Term 2 2015 My Village and Christmas Literacy. Story Making Focus: The Little Fir Tree Book Focus: The Jolly Postman, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Village of Round and Square Houses Poetry Focus: Bonfire night themed poetry, e.g. Crackle! Spit! Role Play: The village post office and stores. The children will be writing captions and sentences and making labels for their drawings. They will be following recipes and creating instructions and writing descriptions of things they have seen. They will be addressing envelopes and writing letters. Ongoing: Forming letters in name correctly using pens, paints, sand, by labelling models + signing up for class surveys. Phonics programme ‘Letters and Sounds’ phase 3 Communication and Language Circle time, class activities, singing, discussions in small groups. Observation of 'talk' happening in child-initiated play. Adults modelling correct skills. Listening to stories, anticipating what comes next. Role play areas Story telling Talking with other children to create a combined outcome Physical Development PE- gymnastics/ using apparatus Outdoor P.E – games which involve moving in a variety of ways and learning the rules Using tools to make a firework painting and a junk model firework Firework dances with scarves Daily handwriting and fine motor skill activities- finger gym Using tools and materials to make Christmas gifts and decorations. Understanding the World Talking about why we have Remembrance Day; our thoughts and feelings about the soldiers and people of the war and making poppies to remember them Continue observing the changes in the seasons as the weather gets colder. Exploring ‘nature’ in the outdoor environment and identifying types of trees as evergreen/deciduous. Observing the river and making ‘boats’ to float on the water. Finding out how paper is made. Exploring the North Pole on Google Earth and tracking Santa’s journey. Playing games on the computers to enhance literacy and numeracy skills. Using 2Simple software to draw pictures of characters in stories Programming Beebot to travel around a story map RE Unit of work – Christmas Mathematics Count up to 10 objects which can’t be moved, e.g. autumn leaves Match numerals to the number in a set, e.g. boxes of fireworks Understand zero to describe an empty set. Rehearse counting back from 10 to 0, Compare two lengths, heights and weights using direct comparison. Use language of longer and shorter, heavier and lighter. Use uniform non-standard units to measure items up to 10 units long, e.g. twigs Use 3D shapes to print and make models, e.g. of buildings in the village. Cooking – measuring and counting ingredients Use money in role play e.g. buying stamps Use days of the week in context, e.g. story. Recognise a minute as a unit of time. Count actions carried out in a minute Area and nets of 3D shape – wrapping up presents.