Autumn
Enquiry
This terms enquiry was a geography theme. Throughout our enquiry sessions this term we answered the question, "What makes us unique?". Each week we answered a sub question towards our main enquiry question.
Week 1 - What does reception look like?
We have been learning about what is it like at school and what the Forest Glade values are.
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Week 2 - Who am I?
We have been learning about birthdays, the year we were born, who is in our families and will be drawing and labelling body parts.
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Week 3 - How do we stay healthy?
We have been learning what our bodies need to be healthy, name different fruits and vegetables, know the importance of brushing our teeth twice a day and name the five senses.
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Week 4 - Where do I belong?
We have been learning about the country we live in and locating the UK on a map.
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Week 5 - What does my community look like?
We have been exploring the different features we have in our local environment.
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Week 6 - What would it be like to live in India?
We have been comparing India to England looking at the climates, flags, languages and dances.
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Week 7 - How is Diwali Celebrated in India?
We have been exploring the story of Rama and Sita and learning what Diwali is and how it is celebrated.
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Week 8 - What is family life like in India?
We have been comparing India to England looking at families, houses, transport and foods.
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Week 9 - Do we all look the same?
We have been looking at our similarities and difference and have had a go at drawing self portraits.
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Week 10 - How do we express ourselves?
We have been looking at how we can express ourselves through Art.
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Week 11 - What makes us unique?
We have put all of our learning from the term together to answer our enquiry question.
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We have had a visit from Reverend Julie to talk to us about Harvest Festival, we have made poppy wreaths and took them down to the cenotaph and Councillor Sam Deakin came to talk to us about her work in Sutton and what our local environment has to offer.
Every Wednesday we have an enrichment day with Nursery. Throughout the children's time within EYFS we aim to provide them with as many enrichment opportunities as possible. We hold weekly activities such as cooking, arts and crafts, outdoor learning and library visits. Throughout the year we hope to add much more to our curriculum, ensuring children get a breadth of experiences. These enrichment opportunities may change and are dependent upon the children's interests.
Maths
Children in Reception studied numbers 1- 5 throughout the Autumn term. Each number was taught separately and in greater depth. The children explored and studied a variety of different representations for each number. Throughout the term, children had opportunity to recite numbers in order to 5, we used number songs to help support this learning in a more interactive and fun way! We wanted children to be able to use number names accurately in play and know that numbers identify how many objects are in a set. As well as matching numbers to quantity and comparing groups, identifying if they have the same number - more or less. We also looked at subtraction within 5 and number bonds to 5.
Throughout this term, the children also explored shape, space and measure. We can name 2D shapes, make patterns and sequence events in a day.
They studied each of these topics through group led sessions as well as within their play, discovering and having hands on experiences within the provision.
Literacy
During this term we used lots of good quality texts to help us with our Literacy lessons.
We used 'Funnybones' to help us write list poems about our bodies.
We used 'Here we are' to compare fiction and non fictions and help us write facts about Sutton.
We used 'Chapatti Moon' to help us write instructions of how to make a chapattis.
We used 'Elmer' to retell a narrative.
Phonics
This term we learned some new sounds. We looked at letter formation, writing and reading words with the following sounds:
s,a,t
i,p,n
I, c
k, ck
e, h
th, r
m, d, g
o, u
l, ll
f, ff
ss, b
We also learned the following words:
I, to, no, go, the, into