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UNDERSTANDING THE WORD
o Discuss families – who are in them, ages, things they like to do – Children to draw family.
o Discuss important events in their lives – birthdays, Christmas, birth of siblings, holidays.
Star fillers o Talk about hobbies and things they like to do, draw picture to show their hobbies.
o Pair students up ask them to interview each other and feed back to group about their
partner.
o Talk about where they have been and what the similarities and differences between that
place and where they live.

COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE
o Read a story and ask the students questions about it: what do you think will happen next?
o Where is the story set? Do you like the story? Who is your favourite character?
o In a small group discuss an event with them: birthdays, Christmas, holidays, favourite
things, family and encourage turn taking, questioning and listening.
o Play Simon Says

PSED
o Circle time on a variety of different topics – I feel happy/sad/angry/scared when…
o Give students a selection of activities where team work is required.
o Students create a picture/building on a theme/topic relating to their topic in small
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groups.

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
o Think about ways to keep healthy.
Star fillers o Sort food into healthy/unhealthy foods.
o Discuss washing – why do we need to wash?
o Selection of outdoor activities to encourage balance and co-ordination.
o Practice pencil grip.
o Cutting out shapes and gluing onto paper, colouring and labelling.
o Throwing and catching an object.
o Create an obstacle course to encourage a variety of different skills and movements –
balancing, crawling, jumping, skipping, hopping etc

EXPRESSIVE ART AND DESIGN
o Sing a selection of songs/rhymes.
o Have a selection of musical instruments ask groups to make some music to go with a song.
o Rub leaves/trees and talk about the patterns.
o Move like certain animals.
o Move to different types of music.