Summer 1st Half-term 2018
Curriculum Overview for Foundation Stage/Ducklings Spring/Life cycles/Animals from different environments
Communication & Language Being able to respond to stories they have read or heard, able to predict outcomes, retell or recall main events and answer questions Understanding how and why questions about different animals and plants Following simple instructions For planting seeds
Listening to a range of stories and reading information texts about the topic, such as Six Little Chicks, Teeny Weeny Tadpole, Handa’s Surprise, Oi, Frog and Hattie Peg. Listening to their friends in the vet role play, responding to questions about their pets Listening to a visiting vicar about their job, thinking of questions to ask about the church
Talking about their pets and experiences of other animals Giving their own explanations, for e.g. why things change during the season of spring. Speaking in sentences that are grammatically correct, in terms of verb tense, for e.g. I fed the dog, I will take the dog for a walk. To use a new words related to animals/life cycles and changes in their play and conversations.
Physical Development Moving and Handling
Who visits a church and why?
Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Talking about what they are good at, what they like to do, our ‘Good to be me!’ topic 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, What makes them feel happy, Turn taking in games, playing sad, angry, proud, nervous? and working cooperatively in groups together Exploring how to respond appropriately to different feelings that we experience Working towards achieving credits on our Carleton Code passports for examples of positive behaviour
Being able to blend and read words and captions with Phase 3 phonemes 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 To show that they have understood what they have read by recalling main events, characters and information accurately. Scheme Phase 2, 3 and 4 Phonics following the Letters and Sounds Scheme
Template created by Michael Tidd 2013
Literacy/Writing
Being able to segment and spell words and captions with Phase2 and 3 phonemes in as well as phase 4 consonant clusters 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. what animals and plants need, labelling and describing different animals and plants 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/animals grow and change Matching adult animals and their young Observing plants and animals and how to care for them in our garden Going on Spring welly walks to look for signs of Spring To find out how different environments vary
Exploring using different natural materials to create nests Using different techniques to make Spring pictures, choosing and mixing suitable colours Singing different songs about , animals, plants and Spring time Observational sketches of Spring flowers
Solving real life problems, for example counting the animals getting on and off the animal bus, sharing animals Counting in different steps, forwards and backwards Accurately counting objects, actions, sounds 1: 1 to 20 and beyond. Counting animals, counting animals two by two
How and why we celebrate Easter Finding out how other cultures celebrate Spring festivals
Technology
Using different sources to find out about Spring and different animals and environments Using the iPads to take photographs of signs of Spring Using the digital Microscope
Expressive Arts and Design Being Imaginative
Mathematics/Number
Being aware of how our bodies are affected by exercise The importance of eating and drinking healthily and trying new foods Practising zipping up our own coats and dressing and undressing for PE Using and carrying tools such as those for gardening and construction with care Road safety
Understanding the World People & Communities
Expressive Arts and Design Exploring using media and materials
Literacy/Reading
Understanding the World The World
RE - To explore how some children were Christened and why?
Exploring moving safely through a space in different ways for e.g. like a snake, a rabbit, a frog and a spider, Noah’s Ark dance Balancing and moving along apparatus Different gymnastics movements –rolls Practising for Sports’ Day Practising forming each letter of the alphabet and numbers correctly
Physical Development Health & Self care
Role playing in the vet/garden centre role play area Singing, dancing and moving to new songs that they are learning about animals, plants and spring, reading and moving to ‘Doing the animal bop!’ Using the small world farm to tell stories such as Rosie’s walk and Handa’s surprise.
Mathematics/Shape,Space & Measures
Ordering objects using the vocabulary of length, height, distance and size Measuring lengths using cubes, hand, feet, steps and blocks Solving problems and answering questions by collecting information. O’clock times of the day www.primarycurriculum.me.uk