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A1 + A2 Semi-Formal

A1

Environment

What are we learning? 

We are observing how the environment around us changes across the seasons developing our understanding of appropriate outdoor clothing. How does autumn look? What can we see? How do the trees look? What colours are the leaves? What is on the ground? How is the weather? What specific activities and occasions do we celebrate?  

Activities to do at home:

  • Go outside, collect leaves and other autumnal items
  • Make a collage of what you have found
  • Make Autumn pictures and patterns
  • Use paint to paint the leave and create printing art
  • Use the animal outline to design your own lion or squirrel- what do the leaves look like? What colour are they? Collect leaves and design your own animal.
  • Use the autumn checklist to go on an autumn treasure hunt, what can you find? 

Maybe take photos of what you have done to bring into school and share with everyone or email to me on mkapsi@mhs.bright-futures.co.uk.

Communication & Self-expression

What are we doing?

We are learning to describe through the “We’re going on a bear hunt” shared story. We are exploring the story through sensory stories, role playing and turn taking activities. 

Activities to do at home:

  • Watch the author reading the story: See below
  • Sequence the story
  • Answer the 2 choices questions
  • Complete the pencil control path activity
  • Pretend you go on a bear hunt imitating the movements of our social story
  • Use the attached word mat to describe the grass, the forest, the cave etc.

Please remember to take photos work that you do at home and bring it in to school when you return to share with the rest of the group or email to me on mkapsi@mhs.bright-futures.co.uk

Independence Skills – Cooking

What are we learning? 

We are focusing on spreading skill and learning to make toasts and sandwiches, as independently as possible. We are learning to recognise a range of cooking ingredients and equipment and know how to use them safely. 

Activities to do at home:

  • Help to prepare every meal – breakfast, lunch and dinner
  • Make own drinks
  • Use the recipe sheets attached to prepare meals that we have been making in school
  • Ask someone at home to challenge you to recognise and find kitchen equipment – chopping board, knife, toaster
  • Ask someone at home to challenge you to find ingredients needed for what you are cooking – bread, butter, jam
  • Wash up
  • Dry the dishes
  • Put the dishes away in the cupboards

Recipe sheets attached. Maybe take photos of what you have done to bring into school and share with everyone or email to me on mkapsi@mhs.bright-futures.co.uk

Physical Well Being 

What are we learning? 

We are learning to be healthy, exercise is an important part of keeping our bodies healthy and we should do some physical movement activities every day! 

Activities to do at home: 

  • Go outside and walk or run for 15 minutes every day 
  • Joe Wicks 5 mins warm up – See below
  • Cosmic Yoga – See below
  • Play musical statues
  • Play musical chairs with someone from your family
  • Walk like an animal such as lion, elephant, snake, monkey etc.
  • Follow the yoga movements cards attached – see sheet
  • Set each other PE challenges – can you run to the end of the garden in 10 seconds? Can you touch your toes? Can you do 10 star jumps etc. 

Please remember to take photos work that you do at home and bring it in to school when you return to share with the rest of the group or email to me on mkapsi@mhs.bright-futures.co.uk

Art

What we are learning?

We are exploring different textures by using different materials for artistic use. Our art classroom piece complements the learnings of our class story: “We’re going on a bear hunt”. 

Activities to do at home:

  • Mix paints to create different shades of colours.
  • Make your own collage using the bear colouring sheet.
  • Explore texture through various natural materials such as leaves, sticks, conkers, pine needles.
  • Explore texture through a variety of clothes and fabrics such as cotton, silk, waterproof materials.
  • Colour the different patterns of the attached colouring sheets using paints or colour pencils.

Please remember to take photos work that you do at home and bring it in to school when you return to share with the rest of the group or email to me on mkapsi@mhs.bright-futures.co.uk

The World About Me

What are we doing?

We are developing understanding of the World Around us by focusing on Road Safety. We are reinforcing our social and waiting skills by learning to line-up and walking in line and increasing our independence and wellbeing awareness by learning how to cross a road safely. 

Activities to do at home:

  • Ask someone in your family to help you practice Lining-Up
  • Sequence the Super Cat’s Road Safety Story- see attached
  • Watch the road safety video below  

Now practice how to safely cross the road.

Please remember to take photos work that you do at home and bring it in to school when you return to share with the rest of the group or email to me on mkapsi@mhs.bright-futures.co.uk

Play and Leisure

What we are learning?

We are exploring different ways to experience every day sensory resources such as rice, pasta, beans and water play. We are also improving our motor skills and our concentration levels through free solo play such as threading, playdough, building and jigsaws.

Activities to do at home:

  • Make your own playdough following the attached recipe and play with it
  • Challenge yourself trying some of the indoor fine motor skills challenges – see attached. 
  • Make your own sensory trays using every day sensory resources that you can find in your kitchen or outside. You can follow the attached recipes too.

Play with:

  • Lego/building blocks- you can try the given building challenge
  • Threading
  • Jigsaws 
  • Racing cars
  • Bubbles
  • Balloons/Balls 

Please remember to take photos work that you do at home and bring it in to school when you return to share with the rest of the group or email to me on mkapsi@mhs.bright-futures.co.uk

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Melland High School
Gorton Education Village
50 Wembley Road, Gorton, Manchester, M18 7DT
Ofsted CEOP