Autumn 1 2025

We have been thinking all about ourselves and what it means to by 'me'. We have talked about things that we like, things we are good at and what we look like. We have noticed that we are not all the same and that is what makes us who we are. We have been making pictures of ourselves using pencils and using paint and thought about the features that we have on our body - 1 face, 2 eyes, 1 body, 2 arms, 2 legs etc.

Autumn 2 2025

We have been answering the big question: what do people celebrate? We have been looking at different celebrations and noticed that not everyone celebrates the same things or in the same way. We talked about our own experiences of different celebrations, such as birthdays and Christmas, and said how we celebrate them. We have also looked at the celebration of Diwali and noticed the similarities and differences between this and other celebrations. Diwali is a very colourful celebration, creating rangoli patterns and having lots of fireworks. We noticed that fireworks are also used for things like bonfire night and New Year. As it was the lead up to Christmas, we decorated the classroom and learnt about why some people celebrate Christmas. We enjoyed doing a performance to our grown-ups, singing Christmas songs that we had learnt in Music.

We have now learnt numbers to 5 and are becoming more confident making number bonds to 5 using physical resources like counters and numicon. We have been using five frames and part-whole models to help us with this too.