Summer 1st Half-Term Listening to a range of different versions of the Jack and the Beanstalk story and stories about mini-beasts Listening to their friends in the garden centre role play
Curriculum Overview for Foundation Stage/Ducklings Our Gardens, Growing plants and Mini-beasts
Communication & Language
Physical Development Moving and Handling
Talking about their gardens and Being able to respond to stories what they have grown they have read or heard, able to Giving their own explanations, predict outcomes, retell or recall for e.g. how to look after main events and answer seeds/beans they have planted questions Speaking in sentences that are Understanding how and why grammatically correct, in terms questions about growing and of verb tense, for e.g. I will need changing plants and animals to water the plant each day; I Following simple instructions put the bean in the soil.
Exploring moving safely through a space in different ways for e.g. giant sized steps, tip-toeing like Jack Practising our skills for Sports’ Day Practising forming each letter of the alphabet and numbers correctly To grip their pencil correctly
Understanding the World The World
Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Looking at how they have grown and changed over the year, what can they do now? Explaining to the class about what they have been doing or learning, sharing this in our end of day reflection and focus time, looking at work and photographs, celebrating achievements
about others and their feelings Looking at different feelings involved with changes as the Turn taking in games, playing move to Year One nears and working cooperatively in groups together Exploring how to respond Listening to the ideas of others appropriately to different and sharing ideas feelings that we experience Working towards achieving credits on our Carleton Code passports for examples of positive behaviour
Literacy/Reading
Being able to blend and read words and captions with Phase2, 3 and 4 phonemes and consonant clusters in Recognising by sight the tricky and high frequency words from phase 2,3 and 4 and applying this in their reading Being able to apply the above skills in their guided reading with the teacher and at home in their individual reading books, reading from the Oxford Reading Tree Scheme To show that they have understood what they have read by recalling main events, characters and information accurately. Reading about gardens, growing and mini-beasts
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Learning how to think more
Literacy/Writing
Being able to segment and spell words and captions with Phase2, 3 and 4 phonemes in Beginning to write some of the tricky and high frequency words in their independent writing correctly Writing simple captions and sentences which can be read by themselves and others, for e.g. their own Jack and the beanstalk story or writing about how a caterpillar grows and changes Some words to be spelt correctly and others that are phonetically plausible Continues a rhyming string
Exploring the similarities and differences between plants and other animals Finding out how plants and animals grow and change Looking at the life cycles of a bean, frogs and butterflies Observing changes to beans, cress, tadpoles and caterpillars To find out how garden environments may vary
Expressive Arts and Design Exploring using media and materials Exploring using different techniques and materials to create butterflies and mini beasts
Singing different songs about growing seeds, caring for mini-beasts and the changes to them as they grow
Physical Development Health & Self care
Using the iPads to take photographs of our learning Using the Beebots to programme and control them
Expressive Arts and Design Being Imaginative
Observational sketches of flowers and minibeasts
Solving real life addition and subtraction problems, for example finding different ways to make 10 Counting in different steps, forwards and backwards to help + and Exploring double numbers Saying 1 more or 1 less than a given number to at least 20 Exploring sharing, including halving
The importance of eating and drinking healthily Taking care of ourselves in warmer weather – putting our sun cream on and wearing a sun hat Learning about Road safety
Technology
Role playing in the garden centre Singing, dancing and moving to new songs that they are learning Building castles for a giant Using the small world, masks and puppets to retell stories such as Jack and the beanstalk and The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Mathematics/Shape,Space & Measures
Mathematics/Number
Being aware of how our bodies are affected by exercise
Ordering and using the vocabulary of capacity and weight, solving problems Using money to solve problems Naming and using the vocabulary of 2D and 3D shapes
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