Summer 1
Our Summer 1 topics are 'Minibeasts' and 'Keeping Healthy'
RE - We follow 'Learning & Growing as the People of God'
- Easter 'Alleluia'
- Pentecost - The air around us
Literacy
In Literacy we will look at the following texts:
Maths
In our Minibeasts topic we will cover the following:
Number rhymes - 5 little ducks, 5 little men in a flying saucer, 5 speckled frogs
Numbers 1-5 – number blocks, number posters, manipulatives,
Children to consolidate their knowledge of numbers
Symbols and marks – Children to have a go at recording numbers – minibeast tally in the garden – marks or attempts at numbers
Problem solving – spots on a lady bird, animals legs
Spatial awareness, building, minibeast hotels with a range of materials.
Ordering – cardinal principle or counting and putting known numbers in order
Ordering cars in a car park, ordering snow men, snowman counting (body parts)
In our Keeping Healthy topic we will cover the following:
Matching numbers 1-5 Naming and matching up to 5 objects to a number, match caterpillars foods and number, caterpillar dominoes etc.
Number rhymes – using props, fingers, practically with manipulatives (as in previous)
Comparing quantities using language of more than/ less than same within a play situation
Counting in everyday contexts routines counting children, signing in, pencils for activities, fruit, milk
Shape - name common 2D shapes and begin to describe them (pointy, curved, flat, round) building with shapes (shape pattern game), 3D shape exploration (which roll, stack etc)
Pattern – creating a simple AB pattern
Hungry caterpillar picnic mat etc.
Past & Present
- Know they can do more for themselves now that they could when they were babies.
- Develop an understanding of yesterday and tomorrow.
People, Culture & Communities
- Talk about similarities and differences between their lives and the lives of others
- Show an interest in the occupations and ways of life of others.
The Natural World
- Show care for living things
- Play with small world models of farms, trains, garages.
- Talk about observations of nature – plants, animals, natural found objects.
- Talk about why things happen and how things work
We will be following the Ten Ten Programme of Study and cover the following sessions:
Module 1
Created and Loved by God
Unit 4
Life Cycles
Session 2
New People, New Places
Module 2
Created to Love Others
Unit 1
Religious Understanding
Session 1
Role Model
Unit 2
Personal Relationships
Session 1
Who's Who?
Unit 2
Personal Relationships
Session 2
You've got a friend in Me
Unit 2
Personal Relationships
Session 3
Forever Friends
Unit 3
Life Online
Session 1
What is the Internet?
Unit 3
Life Online
Session 2
Playing Online
Creating with Materials
- Experiment with blocks, colours and mark making using a variety of materials. Use lines to represent objects.
- Begin to construct by stacking and making enclosures and creating spaces.
- Join construction pieces together to build and balance. Show an interest in different textures.
Being Imaginative and Expressive
- Use representation to communicate –e.g. draw or paint a picture of themselves, make a model of a house.
- Make believe by pretending.
- Role play based on experience and building stories around toys.
- Join in with songs and begin to make up simple songs.
- Create sounds by tapping, banging, shaking, blowing. Show an interest in the sounds made by musical instruments.
- Begin to move rhythmically. Tap out simple rhythms. Join in with dancing and ring games.
- Role Play Area - Doctor's Surgery
- Actions to our story texts
- Nursery Rhymes & Songs
Incy Wincy Spider
Little Miss Muffet
There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden
This old man
5 little speckle frogs