Week 1 Hanukkah Literacy Phonics Phase 2 Daily Handwriting Phonics Phase 2 Week 1 (Repeat) Phonics Phase 3 Week 1 http://www.chabad.org/ Writing Happy Hanukkah cards. Planning a Hanukkah party make a list of things to do and eat. Writing/ copywriting a sentence about the Hanukkah celebrations. Reception: 30-50 / 40-60 months Autumn Term 2 2016/17: Specific Areas Hanukkah and Christmas Mathematics Understanding the World Expressive Arts and Design Numbers- one more than/1 less then using numbers to 10. Making lengths of beads using one more than/1 less than. Counting objects using one number name for each object. Counting claps, movements and noises. Ictgames.com Whack a mole and Mucky Monsters Hanukkah-Spot the difference picture (11differences). You Tube - Bubbe's Chanukah http://www.chabad.org/kids My very own Chanukah party. Making a Menorah using birthday candles and air drying clay. Hanukkah complete the picture puzzle cut out the 3 pictures to complete the puzzle. Handprint Star of David using gold paint on sides of hands. Use lollipop sticks to create the star of David. Making Latkes using potatoes, onions and frying in oil to remember the oil used to light the lamp in the Temple. Week 2 Birthdays Phonics Phase 2 Week 2 (Repeat) Phonics Phase 3 Week 2 SSM 2D shape names including oval, diamond and hexagon. Number- missing numbers from a number line. Complete number lines Prepare a birthday party for Tom Ted. His birthday is on the 16 th November. Set the table using plates, cups etc. Learning Christmas songs for Nativity. Dressing outdoor Theatre as a
Pre Christmas/Jesus birthday topic. Writing a birthday card for Kipper. Make a list of party items required such as balloons, cake, hats etc Record own birthday. My birthday is on. Looking at the initial sounds at the beginning of the month names. Group by initial sound. Look at similar endings such as ember how months have this ending? Short month names/long month namessort. 1-10. Practise writing numerals (extend for MA to 15). Remove numerals and chn identify the missing numerals. Completely mix up numerals and chn reorder. Number lines with missing numerals chn to find the missing numerals and fill in. Ictgames.com counting caterpillar and Number balloons. SSM - Months of the year song. Naming the months of the year in order. Recognising/reading and sequencing months of the year using initial sounds to help. Knowing some of the things we do in certain months e.g. time off school in July and August, Christmas time in December, your birthday in? Look at other measurements of time- seconds to sing a rhyme, minutes to eat an apple, day to go to school etc. Making jam sandwiches for the party. Wrapping presents for the party. Celebration party on 16 th for Tom Ted. Christmas stable. Making a party hat using a paper plate and cutting triangular shapes to make points at the top of the hat. Decorate and use for the party.
Week 3 Christmas Phonics Phase 2 Week 3 (Repeat) Phonics Phase 3 Week 3 Make a Christmas writing table. Look at the different types of words we might need and put them into the writing area names/to/from/happy/christ mas etc Make a list of the Nativity Characters. Labelling the stable picture using words such as stable, star, sky, Mary, Joseph, Jesus, donkey, hay, manger Number counting out a particular number from a larger set. Allocating the correct numeral to a set of objects. Christmas decorations counting out a number of baubles from 1-10 (15) Matching the number of baubles on the tree to the numeral. You Tube - Learning to Count for Christmas - Counting to 10 Santa's Reindeer, Christmas Cookies, Candy Canes Green triangle, point at top. Cut into ten stripes with ten numerals on. Chn must order to make Christmas tree. Finger painting put correct number of green finger prints according to mixed up numerals. Why do we celebrate by putting trees into our homes? Candles looking at the light that is produced by the fire light. Do we use candles in our homes? Why is it dangerous? How do we light our homes? Fire safety call 999. Role play using telephone and asking for the Fire service. Christmas songs and Nativity practice. Putting up the Christmas tree and decorating. decorations Introducing the dark tent with the torches inside. Light and dark words to be displayed around and writing materials provided. SSM - Measuring Santa- 2 chn to put on Santa hats and compare. Who is the shortest/tallest?
Week 4 Christmas Week 5 Christmas and Winter Phonics Phase 2 Week 4 (Repeat) Phonics Phase 3 Week 4 Record items which we have today which had not been invented during the time of the Nativity e.g. cameras(to record the event), cars (to travel to Bethlehem), drs and proper hospitals, kettle to make a cup of tea in the stable, lights and electricity to light and warm the stable. Draw a now and then picture. Sentence structure- chn to construct their own sentence about how Mary and Joseph would have felt when they were looking for a place to stay/ after Jesus had been born/how they felt when such a lot of visitors arrived. Phonics Phase 2 Week 5 (Repeat) Phonics Phase 3 Week 5 preparations- list the jobs we Estimating using numbers to 10+ Advent countdown to Christmas. Using Christmas objects the children will estimate and look at sensible guesses and how a good estimation needs to be close but not spot on. Look at an Advent calendar- confirm knowledge of numerals to 10 and extend to 15. How many elves on the shelf matching numeral. Topmarks Ladybird spots Matching and Ordering. SSM - Christmas shape pictures. Making 3d models of Santa/Elves etc introduce 3D shape language. Advent countdown to Christmas. Looking at numerals to 20. Look at an Advent calendar- confirm knowledge of numerals to 15 and extend to 20. Look at the patterns, Light switches in our homes. Looking at making electrical circuits. How do we switch the light on and off? The Nativity story- Role Play and a Birthday Party for Jesus. Light switches in our homes. Colouring the things which use electricity in our homes. Baking Christmas cakes sponge Christmas songs and Nativity practice. decorations Christmas songs and Nativity practice decorations for the classroom. Glitter and cotton wool pictures snow scene/santa.
must do in the home before our celebrations. Make a list for Santa describing what you would like for Christmas. Topmarks Washing Line Rhyme game. Play Rhyming Bingo. Twinkl Magic Rhyme Matching cards/rhyming String Cards. similarities and differences between the 1-10 and 11-20 numerals by placing them underneath each other. Putting the correct number of sprouts on the plate according to numerals 1-20. Christmas colour by number (Activity Village) cake using a jar of mincemeat. Christmas smells cinnamon, mincemeat, fresh trees etc Changes from Autumn into Winter go on a Winter walk. Encourage children to observe and talk about the changes in the seasons. Cutting out snowflakes. Cutting out and decorating Christmas trees. Week 6 Winter Phonics Phase 2 Week 6 (Repeat) Phonics Phase 3 Week Identify rhyming words from Say hello to the Snowy animals. Topmarks Washing Line Rhyme game. Play Rhyming Bingo. Twinkl SSM - Wrapping boxes (Christmas presents). Looking at the 3d shapes cubes, cuboids, triangular prisms, spheres etc which are easy/difficult to wrap. Encourage use of descriptive language to describe shapes. Weighing 2 presents which is heavier/lighter? (include small but heavy gifts). Number finding a total number of objects in two groups by combining them all. Christmas colour by number (Activity Village) Topmarks Adding 2 dice 2 real dice rolling and adding numbers together. Record the seasons pictorially. Look at which months fall into each season. Twinkl- Seasonal Bingo and sorting activity. Seasons description words frosty/windy/ falling leaves/baby lambs etc sort into the 4 seasons. Experimenting with ice how can we make it melt? Water freeze? Nativity Productions Wednesday 14 th Dec Evening Thursday 15 th Dec Morning Blue and white colour mixing and picture making adding small sparkle to creations. Build a snowman using white circles, buttons, twigs and felt
Magic Rhyme Matching cards/rhyming String Cards Look at rhyming strings cat/dog/pen/man/bed/bun/bell/ ring. Twinkl Room on the Broom Rhyming activity choosing the correct rhyming word from a selection of 3. Labelling a penguin. SSM - Describing position using positional language related to Christmas presents under the tree. Sorting animals which like/dislike winter weather. Finding winter plants e.g. berries and placing in a lid container filling with water and freezing. shapes. Doily snowmen. Week 7 Winter Christmas Party Hanukkah celebration FSP data Phonics Assessment Week Number and SSM - Paying for Christmas presents introducing the different coins and paying for items using 1p,2p,5p and 10p. Counting in twos Prepare for a Jewish Hanukkah celebration party celebrate by playing with the Dreidel and eating Latkes. Preparing for a Christmas celebration cooking and tasting some traditional Christmas vegetables such as sprouts and parsnips. Looking at the vegetables before and after cooking how do they differ? Home role play getting ready for Christmas. Christmas Party Hanukkah Celebrations