Sunshine's:
The Early Years Foundation curriculum consists of seven different areas that the children will learn and be assessed on throughout the year.
Children should develop the 3 prime areas first. These are: Communication and language, Personal, social and emotional development and Physical development.
As children grow, the prime areas will help them to develop skills in 4 specific areas. These are: Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the world and Expressive arts and design.
Sunshine's 2-year old provision does not plan to specific themes each term.
It is best practise in this age group for key workers to plan according to the individual needs and next steps of the specific children in that cohort. Objectives are planned from the EYFS curriculum document using statements broadly from the 0-3 years section.
Where possible, links are frequently made to whole school and national events.
Puffling's:
This term our topic is Dinosaurs. We will be learning all about different dinosaurs and their similarities and differences. There will be a focus on size, quantity, description, imagination and shape.
Books we will be reading:
- 1,2,3 do the dinosaur - Tyrannosaurus Drip - There's a dinosaur in my bathtub - Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs collection - Dinosaurs galore - Stomp chomp big roars here comes the dinosaurs - That's not my dinosaur - Dinosaur Roar - Non fiction Dinsoaur texts.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development:
This will involve the transition into Nursery and to full time education. Initially, we encourage children to separate with their carer with confidence and form new friendships and positive relationships with all the adults and other children in school. We also focus on turn taking and sharing in addition to them talking about their needs and feelings. The children also focus on the similarities and differences between them including how they look, significant times with their families and how they celebrate.
Understanding of the World:
We will develop our understanding of our own culture and that of others. We use all our senses in hands-on exploration of natural materials. We will explore collections of materials with similar and/or different properties and we will talk about what we see, using a wide vocabulary.
Physical Development:
We support children daily to develop their physical skills by encouraging them to put on their own coat, using the toilet, pulling up and down clothes to use the toilet and the need to wash their hands afterwards.
We develop children’s understanding of healthy eating and preparing food through snack and dinner time .
We also begin to develop fine motor skills ensuring the use of a knife and fork when eating a school dinner and practice for improved pencil control with activities such as dough disco, threading beads, using tweezers with small objects such as pom poms.
We have weekly sessions in the school hall using the large gym equipment. This with the help of daily outdoor play will help children to become more confident moving in a variety of ways.
Expressive Arts and Design:
The children have a daily offer of painting, drawing, music, art, dance, and role play linked to the topic. We encourage the children to use their imaginations and re-enact stories and experiences. We provide instruments, dressing up clothes and ribbons to make up dances with. Our home corner area is open every session.
Communication and Language:
We will focus on speaking and listening skills, including taking turns, speaking clearly, following instructions and using manners.
During daily Talk Boost sessions children will gain confidence speaking in small groups. The children are encouraged to join in repeated refrains in traditional tales and stories and exploring rhyming words.
We have daily phonics session following the Bug Club scheme where we are initially focusing on sound, listening and increasing our vocabulary. We will begin to focus on the sounds and actions for s,a,t,p,i,n and clap the syllables in their names.
Literacy:
The children will be sharing a range of dinosaur themed stories and information texts.
Children will be encouraged to make marks in different ways such as with their fingers in shaving foam or with a range of writing media such as paint brushes and pencils. We help them to hold these in a tripod grip and encourage children to talk about the marks they make. Each day we help children to begin to write their name by tracing their name cards and eventually copying them.
Mathematics:
During this term, we will be focusing on your child’s understanding of numbers to 1-5 and will be singing lots of counting rhymes. We will be learning how to order numbers and match small quantities to numerals. In addition to this we will learn how to repeat simple patterns and to name and describe 2d shapes. We also focus on positional language such as under the table and behind the dinosaur. The staff also help to develop further mathematical language such as who is taller? Which is the shortest? How many are heavier?