Collected Resources

1. Display a non-fiction book about autumn. Browse through the Contents page; select headings. Look at the information carefully. Lastly, find information about how the seasons change.
2. Enjoy Leaf Man, but stop before the final double page spread. Predict how the story will end. Encourage children to use because to provide reasons for their ideas. Finally, read the ending.
3. Share Leaf Man. After, show the refrain (resources). Read it aloud together. Discuss how different seasonal weather may affect Leaf Man, e.g. Spring = rain, Summer = sun, Winter = snow.
4. Read Leaf Man. Look carefully at the different arrangements of leaves and the images they create. Generate descriptive language to describe some of them, e.g. bright orange pumpkin.

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Five Little Leaves – Anon, adapted by Hamilton Trust
Introduce the poem and tune on Monday (send a copy home). Rehearse and sing throughout the week, e.g. waiting to go to lunch, to focus on carpet, for fun! Develop and refine the performance.

1. Bear prepositions
2. Feeling safe at night
3. Goldilocks' making amends list
4. Passing sentence on Goldilocks

1. Preposition walk
2. Reading prepositions
3. A journey of prepositions
4. Flickering candles

1. Act it out!
2. Rangoli patterns
3. Build a dark space
4. Diwali chefs

1. Share and enjoy Bears in the Night reading it and enjoying the suspense. Read the last pages really fast to get the bears safe back in bed! What makes it exciting? What do children think will be at the top of Spook Hill? What do they think that the creature is? An owl? A ghost? A monster?
2. Look again at Bears in the Night. Say that many people are afraid of the dark. Even grown-ups often feel more scared if walking in the dark, or going somewhere strange in the dark. That’s why we have festivals in winter (when it’s dark) to celebrate light – with candles/fireworks
3. Read Let’s Celebrate 5 Days of Diwali up to the end of Day 2. Have any of the children celebrated Diwali? Or do they know others who have.
4. Read the last half of Let’s Celebrate 5 Days of Diwali. Do children think it sounds fun? Recap the Days of Diwali (see resource) and discuss which day sounds like the most fun.

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Penny for the Guy
Introduce Penny for the Guy this week. Children will work to learn the rhyme off by heart.

1. Firework safety
2. Describing fireworks
3. Fireworks feelings
4. Describing light and dark