KNOWLEDGE _

							              MEDIUM TERM PLANNED ACTIVITIES - THEME ALL ABOUT ME AUTUMN TERM 2008
                           THE SIX GOALS OF THE EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE
DATE       TOPIC      COMMUNICATION PERSONAL.
                               LANGUAGE &
                                              *KNOWLEDGE &
                                                     SOCIAL &
                                                             *PROBLEM   *CREATIVE  *PHYSICAL
           INTEREST            LITERACY                                 UNDERSTANDING            SOLVING &               DEVELOPMENT           DEVELOPMENT
                                                     EMOTIONAL
           TABLE               PROJECT WORK
                                                     DEVELOP
                                                                        OF THE WORLD             NUMERACY*               Thursdays pm          Friday am
                                                     HOME CORNER        Tues/Wed                 Tues/Wed
WK 1       SETTLE-IN           SETTLE IN             Home               SETTLE IN                SETTLE IN               SETTLE IN             SETTLE IN
MON 8TH    WEEK (no topic                            Environment
SEPT       table this week)                          Role Play
                                                     Small World Play
WKS 2 &    FAMILY – Please     Talk about            Home               Encourage children to    Use shape & space       Discuss face          Growth discussed.
3          bring any photos    features on faces,    Environment        discuss themselves,      skills - draw a face    features - create     Use space to
MON        of family, baby     add features to a     Role Play          hair and eye colour -    on card, colour - cut   family spoon people   encourage role play
15TH &     clothes, family     ready prepared        Small World Play   then produce a           into 3 pieces and put   using a variety of    of children’s growth
22ND       games, anything     face, use mirror to                      booklet called All       back together again     resources             from a baby to
SEPT       about your          identify eye                             About Me                                                               toddler
           family              colours etc.
WKS 4 &    HEALTHY FOOD        Talk about where      Home               Discuss healthy foods    Establish the           Discuss importance    Discuss healthy
5          Please show us      vegetables come       Environment        and identify them.       language short/long.    of healthy food-      foods. 2 teams for a
MON        lots of recipe      from then make        Role Play          Make an apricot milk     Cook cheese straws.     Food helps us grow    relay race using play
29TH       books, real fruit   vegetable soup,       Small World Play   shape then follow up     Before baking           Make a height         fruit and vegetables
SEPT &     & veg., packets     maybe using                              by sequencing pictures   discuss the lengths     chart draw round
6TH OCT    of seed etc.        Nursery grown                            of the process           who has the             each child then
                               vegs.                                                             shortest/.longest       decorate
WK 6 & 7   BEDROOM             Discuss each          Turn the home      Encourage discussion     Establish counting      Monday afternoon      Discuss what we do
MON        You can use your    child’s bedroom,      corner into a      about what bedrooms      skills. Mak e a bed     children please       when we wake up.
13TH OCT   imagination         what colour is        bedroom            need to function.        from card slot          bring photo of        Negotiate space
& 20TH     children anything   their bed cover –                        Reinforce by cutting     through the bed a       their bedroom         when playing circle
OCT        from your           decorate a                               out bedroom pictures     strip of 10 faces-      child to draw         game ‘Here We go
           bedroom would       pillowcase                               use as a display         count down singing      bedroom and then      Round the Mulbery
           be great, but                                                                         ‘Ten in the Bed’        compare               Bush’
           not TOYS that
           topic is coming
                                 COMMUNICATION         PERSONAL.          KNOWLEDGE &
DATE         TOPIC                                                                                 *PROBLEM              CREATIVE              PHYSICAL
                                 LANGUAGE &            SOCIAL &           UNDERSTANDING                                  DEVELOPMENT*          EDUCATION*
             INTEREST            LITERACY              EMOTIONAL          OF THE WORLD*
                                                                                                   SOLVING &
                                 PROJECT WORK                                                      NUMERACY*             Thursday pm           Friday
             TABLE                                     DEVELOPMENT        Tues/Wed
                                                       H/CORNER                                    Tues/Wed
WK 8 & 9     CELEBRATIONS        Discuss how to be     Home               Discuss festivals        Make a number book    Lots of imagination   With celebration
MON          Please show us      safe during           Environment        including firework       1-5 using paper       today to produce a    lights in mind play a
3RD & 10TH   any celebration     firework night –       Role Play         night at home and        candles as objects    creative painting     game called Caught
NOV          item such as        produce a firework    Small World Play   Diwali abroad. Produce   to count              to music to           in the dark –
             firework            picture using wet                        a thumb pot with clay                          produce a firework    experience using
             pictures,           chalks – mount in a                      making a ‘diva’ with a                         picture               torches in a
             birthday items      frame- Cook                              night light used for                                                 darkened room
             etc.                Christmas cakes                          Diwali
                                 Mon 3rd Nov
WK 10 &      TOYS                Write a letter to     Home               Discuss how shadows      Encourage fun using   Resources             Establish skills of
11           Show us your        F/Christmas –         Environment        are formed - explore     numbers - produce a   provided to use       catching and
MON          favourite toys      make Christmas        Role Play          shadows by producing     creature from play    imagination to plan   throwing using a
17TH &                           card also decorate    Small World Play   a caterpillar and then   dough-throw dice -    teddy bears picnic    variety of balls and
24TH NOV                         cake plus lots more                      shining a torch light    decorate creature     to music. Reinforce   bean bags
                                                                          over the caterpillar     with items from       by making a
                                                                          to make shadows          numbered pots 1-5     sandwich
WK 12 &      CHRISTMAS           Continue as           Role Play in the   Prepare for Christmas    Prepare for           Prepare for           Prepare for
13           Any decorations,    previous week         Father Christmas                            Christmas             Christmas             Christmas
MON          cards, nativity                           Factory
1ST & 8th    figures, wrapping
DEC          paper etc.


 The above activities are planned and are additional to many other free choice resources such as painting, gluing,
               drawing, puzzles, model making, music making, dance, story time, board games, etc.
Note that areas marked with a red asterisk involve only the older children attending the Monday afternoon sessions
      and for those older children only please provide shorts and tee shirt for P.E. if attending on Fridays.
                             Your support of these activities is very much appreciated.