EXPLORERS

EXPLORERS

1. LITERACY

   • NON FICTION - Amelia Earhart
     • Features of a news report. Writing for an audience.
     • Sequencing events from her life
     • Newspaper reports
   • We're Going Places
     • Plan and write own mini autobiography.
     • Speech bubbles - writing in role.
     • Explore how we have changed from when we were young.
   • Poetry - Based on David Attenborough
     • Focus on building suspense and using adjectives in own writing.
     • Writing nature poems inspired by the work of David Attenborough.

2. SCIENCE

   • Identify micro habitats - go on a bug hunt in the garden.
     • Use a food chain to show where animals get their food from.
     • Identify habitats for certain animals and explain why they need particular habitats to survive.
     • Identify things that are living, dead and never been alive. Sort and classify.

3. ART

   • Combining different mediums and materials
   • Drawing from observation
   • Create work in the style of an artist

4. SOCIAL SKILLS

   • managing changes to routines
   • Managing emotions. - using zones of regulations at various times throughout the day.
   • Organising belongings
   • Transitions
   • Going to the shop on Friday's to buy breakfast.
   • Life skills - cooking

5. MATHS

   • Count in multiples of 2,3,5 and 10
   • Revision of basic skills
   • Money
   • Place Value
   • 2D and 3D shapes

6. SPEECH AND LANGUAGE

   • Lego therapy.
   • Speech and language games.

7. MUSIC

   • African drumming
   • Singing assembly with Mr Glenn

8. TOPIC

   • Identifying famous explorers
   • Use local maps to find where the local parks are.
   • Look on map to find the closest beach. Ask children to identify the differences between the seaside and Sydenham. Compare and contrast.