Autumn Term 2 2024

Week 1

This week, we have been enjoying our topic 'Fires, Fireworks & Marshmallows'. We have been exploring our topic through songs about Bonfire Night, stories about the dark night sky, making and listening to sounds around our vocabulary and taking part in craft activities to support our learning.

We have introduced a new oracy curriculum across school this term, where new vocabulary is explicitly taught and modelled. To support our learning of new vocabulary, we will be modelling this through Bucket Time where the children will learn the Makaton sign and understand the context of the word through exciting and engaging activities. We have called this our 'Oracy Core Word'.

This week, our Oracy core word was 'Who?'. We played 'who are you?' where we pulled out some of our classroom teddies and asked the question. We also supported the children when it was their turn by looking into mirrors and signing 'who' and asking the same question.

In Bucket Time this week, we read a sensory story which included experiencing the darkness (lights off), felt the wind on our skin (using a fan), felt the crunch of the leaves as they fell on the floor, smelt the burnt wood and listened to it crackle in the fire (scrunching foil), tasted the marshmallows and watched the fireworks fly through the air (coloured ribbons going up and down). We also experienced the explosion of fireworks and their noise by popping balloons full of coloured paint onto our big sheet of paper.

In Phonics Bucket this week, we introduced our new sound 'n' - down Nobby and over his net. We identified pictures, used scarves to air write our sound, wrote our sound in sand and wrote our sound on whiteboards by the end of the week.

In Maths this week, we have been working on identifying and subitising 1, 2 & 3. We sang '5 little fireworks standing in a row' to help us see the numbers and used party poppers to support our learning.

In our Life Skills this week, we made scrumptious rocket vegetable skewers. We first watched Jenny cutting and skewering the cucumber, tomatoes, peppers and carrots and then had a turn ourselves. Eating them was a blast!

Week 2

This week, we continued our topic of ‘Fire, Fireworks & Marshmallows’ and added lots of Remembrance learning in too, to highlight the importance of remembering those who have fought for our country. We enjoyed making poppies using collage and painting techniques and displayed these around our room 🔴.

On Wednesday, our core word bucket focused on ‘more’ where we put balls into a tube which was very engaging. We had to say and sign ‘more’ to help Jenny place more balls in the tube. We then enjoyed cake splat where we got to have a go ourselves through signing ‘more’ when it was our turn.

On Friday we celebrated Children in Need where we got to wear our pyjamas and this was very comfy for us all! Perhaps we’ll petition to do this more often?

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