‘Beside the seaside’
Red Class
COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY
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Match sea creatures names to picture
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Guess the sea creatures from the clues
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PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
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Move like different sea creatures (Under the sea movement game)
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Move like mermaids
Use of ALI boards throughout to reinforce language
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Boogiebeebies-Motion in the ocean
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Matching sea creatures/beach items to their initial sound (link with phonics)
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Threading shells
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Writing postcards/message in a bottle
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Tracing/pencil control activities
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Hide and Seek-sea creatures and beach items-using instruction and prepositional language
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Building sandcastles
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A range of mark making; sand (wet and dry), foam, water, glitter
MATHE MATICS
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New seaside vocabulary/naming sea creatures
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Object permanence activities-EG-a range of coloured fish on a tray, remove one and then children identify which one is missing
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Use shells/pebbles/fish etc to make groups 1-20
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Sort fish, shells, pebbles into groups
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Sequence shells by size
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Talk about the size of different sea creatures-(long/short/big/small)
Summer 2016
PERSONAL SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Taste some fish/seaweed
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Making and tasting our own ice cream and lollies, candy floss, rock, ice cream wafers, sauce and sprinkles!
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Packing for a summer holiday/beach trip, what do we need in the hot weather (sun cream, a hat, sunglasses etc)
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Experiencing a trip to the beach/seaside EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND DESIGN
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD
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Looking at sea creatures
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Different sea creature habitats
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Sea creature-life cycle
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Looking after fish (class pet)
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Experiencing going to the beach/seaside
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Dull and shiny objects
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Songs and singing-using instruments and our own sound makers to make sounds like sea creatures
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Play dough-making seacreatures, mermaid tails
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Role-play-diver, different animals, ice cream stall, fisherman (nets, using rods), seaside shop-selling buckets and spades etc
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Listen to shells (make instruments with shells, sand, pebbles and other objects)
-Ice cream cone craft
environment
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Paper plate boat portals
-Sand pictures
Guess the sea creature powepoint
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Handprint jellyfish
-Look and act summer activtiy
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CD fish craft
-Make boats
ICT
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Audio book-Rainbow fish, Lighthouse keepers lunch, Snail and the Whale
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Powerpoint with sea creature and seaside images
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Seaside and specific sea animal videos in their
MESSY PLAY
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Blue rice
Dry sand-exploring what happens when we make it wet
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Spaghetti
Cornflour and water (blue gloop)
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Visit the beach/seaside
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Playdough
Quick sand-cornflour water and sand
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Paddling pool/play in sand/water
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Foam
Vanilla cloud dough (to simulate vanilla ice cream)
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Make sandcastles
At home…