Autumn

This curriculum topic scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore and record information some of the changes that can happen in the autumn seasons and investigate how the harvest is gathered during this period of the year.

Autumn Trees
Investigate changes to different trees during the autumn and explore how this affects animals that live in a woodland habitat including owls and squirrels

Harvest
Investigate how farmers collect the harvest in the autumn including grown crops and food sources from animals and explore how the harvest can be celebrated
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Holiday Shirts
Produce items of clothing to wear on a holiday to a particular location by selecting and using shapes to represent different places
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Robot Movements
Explain and model how to control the direction and position of a robot when moving about the classroom to perform different functions
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Explore, role-play and change the sequence of narrative events that occur in a traditional story and select and match cvc words with the same final phoneme sounds
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Summer Picnic
Select, identify and prepare different types of foods for a picnic including sandwiches and fruit juice drinks by compiling shopping lists for a class outing