Experience and show interest in an interaction with an adult/peer;

Experience and respond to sensory stimulation; 

Experience/encounter and respond to a range of language and vocabulary

Experience and respond to stories, pictures, objects and texts.

Experience and respond to multi-sensory writing activities and recordings

Develop active listening skills.

Attend Attention Autism sessions that introduce or generate vocabulary

Develop a comfortable grip.

Listen carefully and recognise familiar sounds inside and outside.

To listen with enjoyment and respond to stories and rhymes.

To be able to sequence a set of three or more pictures.

Blend sounds to make words to read.

Segment sounds in words.

Reading and writing HFW words

To match/read words and sentences.

To answer simple questions on a text.

To write labels, lists and captions.

To experience and write sentences.

WAU:

This term our topic is ‘Me in my world.’

Some of the activities we will be involved in are:

· Pupils will explore the story of ‘The Tooth Fairy’ and make their own split-pin Tooth fairy. Pupils will experience and explore words to label a fairy and items associated with the dentist. They will make fairy houses and fairy wands in technology and fairy buns in cookery.

· Roleplay area will be transformed into a dentist surgery and then Santa’s workshop for Playful learning.

· Pupils will explore foods and drinks that are healthy and not healthy for their teeth.

· The pupils will use ice to explore what happens when salt is put onto the ice. The children will then talk about the road gritters that spread rock salt on the road to keep us safe when we are driving in winter weather.

· Why do we put up a Christmas Tree? We will decorate the Christmas tree and talk about the fairy lights. We will look at the plug socket and find out about staying safe in our home by reading the big book ‘At home with Stanley Stone’ by Corrie Pegg (Rospa).

· We will explore how different things were before electricity in ‘Grandma’s time’ by reading the big book ‘What was it like before electricity?’(Rainbow). We will discuss how various items in our home and schoolwork by electricity.

· Where is the North Pole? Who else lives at the North Pole? Where is the South Pole? Who lives at the South Pole?

Fine Motor Skills

Some of the activities we will be involved in are:

· Taking part in dough disco activities focusing on rolling, squeezing, pinching and prodding.

· Manipulating playdoh. Making teeth for the dentist.

· Using fairy dust on a tray and with your finger and/or a fairy wand, a feather or spoon to make patterns, letters, numbers or shapes.

· Using different equipment such as a knife, spoon and fork during weekly cooking sessions to spread, cut and mix.

· Engage in sensory play.