Summer 2nd Half-term 2018
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 sea creatures Following simple instructions
Listening to a range of stories and reading information texts about the topic, such The Rainbow Fish, Commotion in the Ocean, The snail and the Whale. Listening to their friends in the Aquarium role play, responding to questions Listening to the experts when we visit the Sea Life centre. Thinking of questions to ask about the different sea creatures.
Curriculum Overview for Foundation Stage/Ducklings Healthy Living/Under the Sea/Pirates/Moving on
RE - To find out about stories
Who celebrates Eid? How and Why?
Talking about their experiences when visiting the seaside Giving their own explanations, for e.g. why things change during the season of summers Speaking in sentences that are grammatically correct, in terms of verb tense, for e.g. The pirate found the treasure. The shark is chasing the little fish. To use a new words related to the topics in their play and conversations, such as pollution, coral, krill, sea urchin.
Physical Development Moving and Handling
Talking about changes coming up with moving to a new class, feelings involved and relate to how they felt starting school last year How to deal with unwanted feelings about change, seeing change as a positive Celebrating the changes and achievements that they have made in their first year at school.
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
Learning how to think more about others and their feelings Turn taking in games, playing and working cooperatively in groups together with less adult support
Being able to blend and read words and captions with Phase 4 consonant clusters in Able to read polysyllabic words Recognising by sight the tricky and high frequency words from phase 4 and applying this in their reading, writing those from phase 2/3 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
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 Writing simple captions and sentences which can be read by themselves and others, for e.g. Instructions to find pirate treasure, recounting our day at the sealife centre, writing facts about sea creatures. Some words to be spelt correctly and others that are phonetically plausible Continue a rhyming string, make a sea creature poem
Exploring the similarities and differences between different places – land and sea. The plants and animals that are found in different places Investigating floating and sinking, design, make and test out a boat. How to look after our oceans, beaches
Using different techniques to make under the sea creatures and scenes- printing, weaving, foil indenting, bubble making, wax resist, 3D model making, using clay. Singing different songs sea creatures, pirate songs
Solving real life problems, involving halving, doubling and sharing – sharing gold coins, halving the number of fish caught in a net. Counting in different steps, forwards and backwards to solve addition and subtraction problems Accurately counting objects, actions, sounds 1: 1 to 20 and beyond and also recognising the numerals Matching the doubles in the buried treasure
Who celebrates Father’s day and why? How are our families different? Finding out Ramadan and Eid
Technology
Using different sources to find out about life under the sea Using the iPads to take photographs of signs of Summer Using the digital Microscope to capture minibeasts and summer flowers
Expressive Arts and Design Being Imaginative
Mathematics/Number
Being aware of how our bodies are affected by exercise and the need for rest and sleep too The importance of eating and drinking healthily and trying new foods Road safety Sun safety Learning how to use and transport tools and materials carefully
Understanding the World People & Communities
Expressive Arts and Design Exploring using media and materials
Literacy/Reading
Understanding the World The World
from different religions
Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Sports’ Day Races Different gymnastics movements –rolls and balances Practising joining consonant clusters and vowel digraphs together in our handwriting, forming numbers correctly Using a range of different tools with control Pirates – walking the plank, climbing the rigging
Physical Development Health & Self care
Role playing in the aquarium museum/gift shop roleplay area Singing, dancing and moving to new songs that they are learning about under the sea and pirates Moving to Boogie Beebies, ‘Ocean Motion.’ Using the small world /story sacks to retell stories – The rainbow Fish, The Snail and the whale.
Mathematics/Shape,Space & Measures
Ordering objects using the vocabulary of length, height, distance and size Use 2D and 3D shapes to make pictures and name some of their properties. Investigate and explore properties of different shapes – which 3D shapes can roll down the pirates plank?