EYFS Curriculum Topic Over view 2014-15 Autumn Term – Who Am I? Ourselves Autumn Half term holiday Toys Winter Child initiated topics
Spring Term- The secret garden
What are we doing this autumn half term in the EYFS?
Who Am I? Prime Areas of Development- A selection of this terms activities. Personal, Social, Emotional – This term we will play name games to familiarise each other with new class members. Play games such as “hide and seek” with classroom objects to familiarise the children with the classroom. Learn the new daily routine and become familiarised with the Early Years environment. Review positive class rules together and make up classroom signs to emphasise them. Establish role play rules and manners and set a class protocol.
Communication and Language Development- We will develop our role play area into a home and make labels and signs for it .We will make up imaginative stories about autumn animals. Listen to a range of stories and discuss them. Retell the stories using props/small world toys/puppets. We will write “guess what” cards to describe different body parts and autumn objects. Retell “Happy & you know it” in our own words. Contribute to big class information book about autumn.
Growing & Living
Physical Development- Play games to develop spatial awareness. Raise awareness of body parts,
Half term holiday
through the song, Head shoulders knees and toes’ Explore ways of travelling under, over and through equipment emphasising body shape e.g. wide, tall, small, curling and stretching. Use fine motor skills to manipulate materials. Activities to assess pencil control abilities.
Mini beasts Spring Child initiated topics
Summer Term- All aboard!
Specific Areas of Development- A selection of this terms activities . Literacy Development As a class we shall start
Mathematics Development- Our EYFS children
to follow Phase 2 of the Letters and Sounds phonic development programme and if necessary we will revisit areas from Phase 1. Start to gather a range of the children’s favourite books. Start guided reading sessions. Start individual reading scheme.
will be encouraged to approach mathematics through a variety of learning experiences, practically, interactively, pictorially and written. We will create our class birthday wall looking at the different months of the year. Sorting activities related to our sensesmovements. Label posters for class displays. Solve simple practical problems and respond to “what could we try next? Practice ordinal number through a variety of practical activities.
Nursery & other rhymes Half term holiday Summer Holidays and journeys
Child initiated topics
Understanding the World- The children shall start to explore and investigate our EYFS environment, recording their findings in a variety of ways. They shall be introduced to algorithms and sequencing and learn the importance of becoming independent thinkers! They shall have the freedom to use IT devices to support their learning and shall be shown how to handle them correctly.
Expressive Arts- Start to choose a variety of instruments and sounds that can represent different emotions. Make class rules about how to keep our creative area tidy, clean and accessible at all times.