Our Current Topic
All About Me
Communication and Language
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Look at the pictures of faces and talk about them.
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Ask open ended questions about stories and experiences.
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Read a story. Ask what everybody likes best about the story everybody needs to listen to each others answers.
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Provide small world play and role play that reflect the childrens experiences..
This is just a starting point, We follow the childrens interests and develop our learning from there.
Physical Development
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Talk about healthy eating to help us to grow us strong.
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Look at the effects of exercise on our bodies.
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Look at different ways of moving.
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Set challenges: How many hops can you do?
Mathematics
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Look at numbers that are special to us- our ages, our door number.
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Compare sizes of hands and feet.
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What shapes can we make with our bodies?
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How many letters are in our names?
Understanding the world
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Go for a sensory walk, what do we see, hear, smell and touch?
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Use a digital camera, allow the children to take pictures of each other.
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Learn different parts of the body
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Expressive Arts and Design
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Use different media to make portraits, provide mirrors.
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Make hand and footprints.
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Draw around our bodies.
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listen to music and encourage movement to the music.
Personal, social and emotional development
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Talk about how we are all unique.
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Ensure the play environment provides stimulating and challenging opportunities and areas that are calm and reassuring.
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Talk about emotions and how we feel.
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Take turns to choose things such as stories.
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Provide mirrors and encourage the children to look at their features.
Literacy
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Do helicopter stories around our theme.
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Encourage joining in with the repeated refrains.
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Learn songs that reflect our theme- Head and Shoulders
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Look at the letters in our names.