This activity combines mindfulness colouring with Early years maths skills. Practise counting and recognising numbers by rolling the dice and colouring the picture with the correct number on them. Maths skills it can develop: number recognition counting Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Maths Expressive Arts and Design Number of Pages: 1

This open ended resource is an excellent way to explore the different literacy skills while staying within theme. The blank spaces provided allow for independent or supported mark making. Practise writing and reading words and letters, creating words, sentences and more. Phonics skills it can develop: linking sounds to letters initial sounds middle and end sounds segmenting and blending reading simple sentences reading writing Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Literacy Number of Pages: 1

Have fun with your phonics with these themed red level tricky words. A great resource for working on reading. Phonics skills it can develop: Reading words that are not phonetically decodable Includes: the to I was do he she me of we be Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Literacy Number of Pages: 3 ( 11 tricky words and 1 blank picture )

Have fun counting, ordering and comparing these spotted elephants from 0-10. Maths skills it can develop: Counting Ordering Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Maths Number of Pages: 2 ( 0-10 spotted dinosaurs and 1 blank )

This maths resource is a great way to practise addition skills.  Each picture provides a space to show the answer and works with numbers up to 10 including number bonds  for 5 and 10. Solve the sums practically with toys and resources or simply challenge your child to solve them mentally. Maths skills it can develop: counting addition recording marks they can explain and interpret Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Maths Number of Pages: 3 (12 sums)

Have fun with your phonics with these themed phonetic word cards. A great resource for learning the digraph ff. Phonetic skills it can develop: linking sounds to letters blending and segmenting Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Literacy Number of Pages: 2 ( 12 word cards )

Have fun with your phonics with these initial sound match activity. A great resources for working on the first sounds in words. Phonics Skills it can develop: hearing initial sounds linking sounds to letters Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Physical Development Literacy Number of Pages: 1

Have fun with your phonics with these initial sound cards. A great resources for working on the first sounds in words. Phonics Skill it can develop: hearing initial sounds linking sounds to letters Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Literacy Understanding of the World Number of Pages: 2 (8 Initial sound cards)

This open ended resource is an excellent way  to explore the different  literacy skills while staying within theme. Sort through the  sounds as you play and build your own words with the pictures. Phonics skills it can develop: linking sounds to letters initial sounds middle and end sounds segmenting and blending reading Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Literacy Number of Pages: 2

Yes you can learn data handling in Early Years! The graph is easy to understand with engaging pictures and works with small numbers. Children can have fun completing their graphs independently by surveying their friends or complete one in small groups or as a class. The activity is a brilliant opportunity to start exploring the results through adult questioning. Maths skills it can develop: Counting Number recognition  Comparing Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Maths Understanding of the World Number of Pages: 1

This phoneme frame is great for working with CVC words and allows children to practise their segmenting skills. A perfect addition to your phonics lesson. Phonics skills it can develop: Hearing initial sounds Hearing middle and end sounds Blending and segmenting The Reading of CVC words The writing of CVC words Linking Sounds to letters Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Literacy Number of Pages: 1

This maths resource is a great way to practise addition skills.  Each picture provides a space to show the answer and works with numbers up to 10 including number bonds  for 5 and 10. Solve the sums practically with toys and resources or simply challenge your child to solve them mentally. Maths skills it can develop: counting addition recording marks they can explain and interpret Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Maths Number of Pages: 3 (15 sums)

Paint, print, colour! A simple template to have fun filling in. Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Expressive Arts and Design Number of Pages: 1

Help  develop your child’s speaking and listening skills with these sounds cards. Take them on a listening walk to raise children’s awareness of sounds or use pictures to have fun comparing and matching them to books and toys. Watch over time as your child begins to discriminate between sounds and work out which animal makes which sound! Phonics skills it can develop: General sound discrimination - environmental Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Literacy Understanding of the World Number of Pages: 1

Help  develop your child’s speaking and listening skills with these visual aid cards. Displaying these around your child’s environment and using them in matching games can improve their concentration, train their visual memory, improve their ability to find similarities and differences between the different images and so much more. Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Literacy Understanding of the World Number of Pages: 2 (8 cards)

Have fun with your phonics with these themed phonetic picture cards. A great resource for working on spelling simple words. Phonetic skills it can develop: linking sounds to letters blending and segmenting Areas of the Early Years curriculum it covers: Personal, social and emotional development Communication and Language Literacy Number of Pages: 1 ( 6 picture cards )

Let your little ones explore number as they play. This simple to use numbered car park mat makes a great addition to your smallworld play whilst supporting number recognition at the same time.

Here you will find planning for the whole Autumn term (16 weeks’ worth) of planning for a topic I have loosely entitled ‘Into the forest’. This topic is focused on the forest theme and Autumn and moves through a range of other topics as the term progresses: festivals and celebrations, Halloween, Winter and Christmas. The planning covers a range of objectives taken from the new EYFS curriculum and is colour coded by area. A free list of the objectives covered in this medium term plan has also been included. Please note that the planning assumes that PE and music are taught from their own schemes during ‘PE and music lessons’ and thus objectives being covered are separate to this. Every area of the curriculum is covered each week with a clear learning objective and an activity linking directly to this objective. Each week is also themed around a recommended book of the week and comes with key suggested questions for each subject area. This was a labour of love that I will be using with my own class this year. A lot of time went in to making this the best it could be. I hope that this saves you a lot of time and provides you with some idea for your Autumn term planning.