Theme: Julia Donaldson (children's laureate)
Language, Literacy and Communication
- Listening to stories/songs/rhymes with predictable and patterned sturctures/theme related (see above) - books, tapes, internet
- Listens/Respond to instructions and questions - show and tell, news, weekend boxes, talking partners, message taking, using microphones
- Re-telling stories, sequencing stories
- Jolly Phonics-letter groups 1-7 (42 sounds) books, DVD, jolly jingles
- letter formation, blending, identifying sounds in words and introducing tricky words
- Mark making using a variety of equipment including Plasma, writing patterns, classroom labels, lists, letters
- Writing familiar stories - emergent writing, over/underwriting
- Fflic & Fflac units 1,2 and Bant a ni
- watch DVD A 'Y cwtch'
- Stories
- Songs/rhymes
- Daily routines, greetings, instructions, questions
- Colours - Pa liw ydy hwn?
- Numbers - Sawl un?
- Brawddeg yr wythnos, helpwr heddiw, seren y dydd
- Vocab for role-play/activities
- Recognise, record, order and count numbers to 10 and beyond
- Counting objects in sets (more/less/zero)
- 2D shape sorting, name recognition, ICT shape pictures
- Language of adding, adding 1 more to a number
- Adding by combining 2 sets (addition using 1 to 5)
- Comparing lengths/heights using language of length/height
- Comparing objects/numbers
- Counting forwards/backwards from a given number
- Recognising coins (use of till)
- Awareness of time (daily activities)
- Estimating quantities
- Using a variety of mathematical games on the computer/Plasma
- Size and position
- Simple repeating patterns and sequences
SEAL New beginnings, getting on and falling out
- Develop independence/personal safety
- Feelings- stories, games, songs
- Part of a community - circle time, swapping places games
- Routines - taking photos, making class manuals of daily routines, likes/dislikes of the day
- Friends -Stories about friendship, circle time, opportunities to play with a new friend
- Co-operation - parachute games, paired games - talking partners, mirror games
- Caring for class pets and other animals
- Introduce a visual timetable and discuss
- Trail/route around familiar places
- Follow the giant's route using simple instructions/directions (The smartest giant in town)
- Materials and their properties (giant's clothes and natural materials)
- In relation to the giant's familiar people discuss their familiar people (school, home, locality)
- Weather patterns based on themed stories and seasonal changes
- Woodland walk - make/sort collections of Autumn/Winter objects
- Gross motor - large equipment - bikes, scooters, trikes, climbing frames, fort
- Spatial awareness activities
- Travelling - rocking, rolling, jumps using a variety of levels tuff cam examples and evaluate
- Balancing, travellings, sending and receiving small equipment using body parts
- Fine motor - scissor skills, lacing, threading, peg boards etc.
- Controlling mouse IWB pen, Beebot
- Manipulating playdough/clay
- Cutting and chopping fruit and veg (Harvest)
- Pencil grasp/control
- Explore and experiment with a range of materials/resources and tools to assemble artefacts
- Using |ICT packages to create themed pictures
- Vegetable/fruits - make fruit salads. soups (Harvest)
- Music Express
- Explore sound sources theme related.
- Recognise familiar sounds through listening and making music
- Contribute to sound stories/make sound choices
- Create varied body shapes/change of direction through a variey of stimuli
- Bonfire/Christmas/Craft
- Discuss a variety of religious stories - The creation
- Become aware of festival
- Harvest- read stories - loaves and fishes, Joseph, Thank you prayer. Discuss colours of fruit and veg, fruit printing, soups and fruit salad
- Christmas - listen to the story, re-tell through role-play, DVD, sequence main events, Christmas craft
