Summer 2
Our Summer 2 topics are 'Pirates' and 'Summer'
RE - We follow 'Learning & Growing as the People of God'
- God's Family
- Special Celebrations
Literacy
In Literacy we will look at the following texts:
Maths
In our Pirates topic we will cover the following:
Number recognition up to 5
Naming and labelling, mark making/ symbols for number, numbers on buckets and spades to match count and order
Recite to at least 10
daily routines, counting songs, rhyme time, number blocks,
Children also need to be secure in counting back from at least 5
Counting in sequence
Eye spy summer counting activity, moving on to static counting.
Children at this stage need to be able to count with 1:1 correspondence by moving one object for each name then moving on to static counting.
Compare sizes
Tall, short, long, large, bigger, smaller
In our Summer topic we will cover the following:
Subitising
fast recognition up to 5 exposing children to number throughout the day (signs/labels/pirate money/ numicon) modelling quick recognition
*Counting and number pattern
Counting up and back with number to and beyond 10 by rote. Counting gold coins, treasure chests, ten little pirates, Counting actions, sounds etc.
Children should be able to now count by moving objects to 3 knowing the end number is the total
Time
sequencing events in the T4W text. Visual timetable yesterday/ today/ after/ next/
Weight
compare weight such as heavy, light, more, less Pirate treasure, sand in buckets
Past & Present
- Develop an understanding of yesterday and tomorrow.
- Begin to understand that some things happened a long time before they were born.
People, Culture & Communities
- Discuss special events and celebrations in their own family.
- 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.
- Notice changes in the seasons.
- Talk about why things happen and how things work.
Module 2
Created to Love Others
Unit 4
Life Cycles
Session 1
Growing Up
Unit 4
Life Cycles
Session 3
New People, New Places
Module 3
Created to Live in Community
Unit 1
Religious Understanding
Session 1
God is Love
Unit 1
Religious Understanding
Session 2
Loving God, Loving Others
Unit 2
Living in the Wider World
Session 1
Me, You, Us
Unit 2
Living in the Wider World
Session 2
When I Grow Up...
Unit 2
Living in the Wider World
Session 3
'Money Doesn't Grow On Trees'
Creating with Material
- 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 - Pirate Ship & Seaside Shop
- Actions to our story texts
- Nursery Rhymes & Songs
Zoom, zoom, zoom
London Bridge is falling down
Teddy bear, teddy bear
The big ship sails
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside
5 little men in a flying saucer