Our initial theme focus is ‘Ourselves and Autumn’ during this settling in period. We have painted self portraits, printed our hand prints, looked at our family albums, used the computers to produce art and explored our human body through our literacy focus Funnybones by Janet & Alan Ahlberg, as well as factual books. Role play further develops language and social skills in our Doctors Surgery role play area where appointments are made, treatment is prescribed and operations performed often needing an overnight stay in hospital and in our domestic home corner, where meals are cooked and babies are fed and nurtured! We combine this with exploring the changes we see occurring around us, leaves are examined with pumpkins, conkers, acorns and sycamore keys, autumnal festivals are celebrated; Diwali, Halloween and Bonfire Night, with rockets, witches, saris, and stories. Owl Babies by Martin Waddell combines both themes in a group display of collaborative art work, where the children worked together to produce a backdrop, with group and individual owls for our display.