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Autumn 1 Marvellous me

Our topic this half term is 'Marvellous me!'

Within this topic we will enquire into: 

  • My new class/new beginnings
  • Learning King Eds rules and routines!
  • Feelings/emotions
  • My family
  • Five senses

Our key questions are:

  • What is your name?
  • How do you feel today? 
  • Who do you like to be with?
  • What are our five senses?
  • What is the same and what is different about us?

Key knowledge (important bit):

  • We all have a name and can hear it when someone calls us
  • We have different feelings such as happy and sad
  • Our family is the people who look after us
  • We have five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell
  • We are the same in some ways and different in others 

Our key texts are:

  • You’re fabulous as you are – Sophie Beer
  • I like me – Nancy Carlson
  • Brown bear, Brown Bear – Eric Carle

Our core rhymes are:

  • If you’re happy and you know it
  • Open shut them
  • Miss Polly had a dolly

We will learn the following Makaton signs:

  • Hello
  • Good morning
  • Good afternoon
  • Please
  • Thank you
  • Good bye