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This is just a snap shot of what we do
Autumn
Personal, social and emotional Development
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Emotion and feelings exploration: Using the Colour Monster, feelings cards, or emotive stories for children to identify and express happiness, sadness, or frustration.
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Turn-taking and sharing: Interactive group games, role-play in home or shop corners, and cooperative art projects to develop collaboration and conflict resolution skills.
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Sensory exploration: Autumn-themed messy play using leaves, pinecones, or scented materials encourages autonomy, curiosity, and emotional engagement
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Physical Development
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Playdough-Make playdough in autumnal colours, use this to make trees and leaves.
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Go on an autumnal walk, collect conkers, leaves etc
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Look at the effect of excersise on our bodies.
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How many ways can we move- crawling, running, jumping, rolling.
Communication and Language.
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Provide autumnal themed role play to encourage chatter and feed in autumnal words.
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Use puppets to explore stories about trees and woodland.
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Learn rhymes about conkers and acorns.
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New vocabulary- Autumn, Autumnal, seasonal, chilly, hibernation.
Literacy
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Stories- That's not my hedgehog -Usborne touchy feely books, When we went to the park by Shirley Hughes, Owl Babies by Martin Waddell.
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Provide lots of opportunities for mark making.
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Encourage emergent writing.
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Make a book about Autumn.
Mathematical Development
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Count and sort colourful autumn leaves, acorns, and pinecones by number/size
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Print autumn leaf counting booklets to complete
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Play leaf, acorn or pine cone toss games, keeping score
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Measure lengths of twigs, weights of pinecones, and leaves then order and compare
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25. Count and clap syllables in autumn-themed words
Understanding the World
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Look at how the season is changing.
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Look at the subject of hibernation- what is it? who hibernates?
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Go on a sensory walk- look for different sights, smells and textures?
Expressive Arts and Design
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Use a variety of media and loose parts Autumn pictures.
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Provide autumn colours in different mediea
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Dance to our favourite music.
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Play Vivaldi's four seasons.
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Print using conkers, leaves etc.
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Make Autumn Wreathes
