Summer 1st Half-Term
Curriculum Overview for Foundation Stage/Ducklings The Church/Easter/The Farm and New Life/Traditional Tales Communication & Physical Development Physical Development Language Moving and Handling Health & Self care Retelling familiar stories in their Being able to respond to stories Exploring moving safely through a space Being aware of how our bodies are affected by own words they have read or heard, able to in different ways for e.g. Daddy bear
Listening to a range of different versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs Giving simple explanations, such predict outcomes, retell or recall and The Gingerbread Man as where do we get our milk main events and answer Listening to the Vicar and the from? questions Farmer on our class visits Speaking in sentences that are Understanding how and why grammatically correct, in terms questions about growing and of verb tense, for e.g. The bears changing plants and animals went for a walk in the woods. Following simple instructions
sized steps, tip-toeing like Goldilocks Practising our running, skipping, jumping and balancing skills for Sports’ Day Practising forming each letter of the alphabet and numbers 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
Learning how to think more 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 of how to feelings that we experience complete a challenge. 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 non-fiction books about our topics
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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 Goldilocks story or a letter from the wolf to the Three Little Pigs. Some words to be spelt correctly and others that are phonetically plausible Continues a rhyming string, using The Duck in the Truck story as a stimulus
Exploring the similarities and differences between different farm animals, different locations – home, school and farm. Finding out how plants and animals grow and change, Life cycles Observing changes tadpoles and caterpillars
exercise
People & Communities
materials to make baby farm animals, farm pictures
Singing different songs about the farm and different traditional tales – The Three Bears’ Rap
Making Gingerbread men and building new homes for the Three Little Pigs
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 Saying 1 more or 1 less than a given number to at least 20 Exploring sharing, including halving. How many gingerbread men will 3 people have if there are 6 of them?
Using the iPads to take photographs of our learning Using the Beebots to programme and control them
Expressive Arts and Design Being Imaginative
Mathematics/Number
Exploring how different families celebrate Easter To explore how some children were Christened and why?
Who visits a church and why? Technology
Expressive Arts and Design Exploring using media and materials Exploring using different techniques and
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
Role playing in the three bears’ cottage or the farm shop Singing, dancing and moving to new songs that they are learning Building homes for the Three Little Pigs Using the small world, masks and puppets to retell stories such as The Gingerbread Man
Mathematics/Shape,Space & Measures
Ordering and using the vocabulary of capacity and weight, solving problems. Find the heaviest bear! How many cups of porridge to fill the bowl? Using money to solve problems – in our snack shop and farm shop. Naming and using the vocabulary of 2D and 3D shapes – build a house for the Three Little Pigs and name the shapes www.primarycurriculum.me.uk