ASC C

Skills through Attention Autism Activities

Literacy	Numeracy	Social Skills
Attending in a group	Experience & engage in colour, shape, size	Respond to others
Anticipation	Experience & engage in mathematical language	Show an awareness of others
Take turns	Experience different shapes in the environment	Respond to others turn taking and co-operation
Wait and listen	Physical Dev & Movement	Sensory Skills
Develop their communication skills	Develop their fine motor skills	Develop use of senses
Develop their concentration skills	Develop their movement skills	Develop self-regulation skills
Develop imagination	Develop their control and imagination	Creative Skills
Develop engagement and sustaining attention	Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities,	Experience and participate in role play activities.
	Make decisions, choices and indicate their preferences
	Experiment with ideas

Numeracy

Experience and explore mathematical activities;
Experience daily routines and work systems;
Encounter a variety of mathematical objects/pictures/symbols;
Respond to mathematical apps/computer programs;
To engage with and develop one to one correspondence and know the last number shows the whole set.
To add and subtract numbers to 100 using objects, number lines or grids.
To count in 1s, 2s, 5s,10s,3s and 4s. Counting legs, wings, ladybird spots, etc

Sorting objects in different ways; sorting minibeasts into different categories e.g. wings, legs, no legs etc.

To experience, encounter and tell the time to o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past.
To tell and write the digital time.
To sequence the days of the week, months of the year and the seasons.

In ASC C this half term we are focusing on:

Language and Literacy

Communication with Makaton/Symbols.

Learning words-choose, thirsty, hungry, toilet, hurt, poorly, big, little, fast, slow,

hot, cold, touch, hear, listen and smell.

Talking and Listening

Experience and show interest in an interaction with an adult/peer;
Experience, respond and engage with sensory stimulation; •
Experience/encounter, respond to and develop a range of language and vocabulary, naming minibeasts and their habitats.
Experience, encounter, and engage with a variety of communication interactions, communicators and situations.
Participate in familiar rhymes, songs, stories and requests and join in with repetitive refrains and rhymes (incy wincy spider, little miss Muffet,)
use role play in a range of a contexts, e.g. structured play, retelling stories, topic work
use a range of non-verbal skills, e.g. gesture, facial expressions
Encounter, experience and engage with options and choices e.g. choice boards
Participate in asking and answering questions

Reading

Demonstrate reading behaviour when handling books
Experience, respond and engage with a range of sensory stimuli, objects photos, stories and books

Writing

Develop a comfortable grip.
Experience and respond to multi-sensory writing activities and recordings
To match, recognise, order, trace and write my name including surname when ready.
Segment sounds in words to write
Write labels, lists and captions.
Write dictated sentences. To trace a sentence. To copy a sentence.
To write sentences using sentence starters. To begin to write my own sentence.

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, threading and using scissors.
Using different equipment such as a knife, spoon and fork during weekly cooking sessions to spread, cut and mix.
Engaging in sensory and messy play

Geography

History

To use simple vocabulary in relation to the passage of time e.g. before/after (COT) (Life cycles)
To recognise and record the sequence of events in simple stories.

Science and Technology

We are learning to recognise that there is a wide variety of animals and plants. (I, P)
To recognise changes happening in everyday life (COT, I)
To respect and care for the world we live in (I, P)

Using ICT

Understand how to keep safe on the Internet and display acceptable online behaviour.
Find and select information from a given source (Explore)
Explore and interact with a digital device (Explore)
Express ideas by creating pictures and composing text. (Express)
Know that digital methods can be used to communicate (Exchange)
Tal k about their work (Evaluate)
Know that work can be printed (Exhibit)

Dungannon Primary School,
Circular Rd,
Dungannon,
County Tyrone,
BT71 6BE

T: 028 8772 2250