Fiction

We’re going on a bear hunt: Michael Rosen

Bears are a winner every time and so is Michal Rosen!So many other incidental writing forms arise from role play e.g. signs for the bear’s cave, lists of items to take etc

Poetry

Focus nursery rhymes:

Once I caught a fishRow Row Row Your BoatGrand Old Duke

Songs and rhymes from other cultures

Non-fiction:

Information Text: letter of invitation 

Reading Spine

Brown Bear, Brown Bear - Eric Carle

Dear Zoo - Rod Campbell

Development Matters

Increasingly follow rules, understanding why they are important. Do not always need an adult to remind them of a rule.

Develop appropriate ways of being assertive. Talk with others to solve conflicts.

Talk about their feelings using words like ‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘angry’ or ‘worried’.

Begin to understand how others might be feeling.

Possible content:

Circle Times with The Colour Monster

Reinforce 'snack time' routines

Jigsaw/Jerrie Cat - Healthy Me

Development Matters

Continue to develop their movement, balancing, riding (scooters, trikes and bikes) and ball skills.

Go up steps and stairs, or climb up apparatus, using alternate feet.

Skip, hop, stand on one leg and hold a pose for a game like musical statues.

Use large-muscle movements to wave flags and streamers, paint and make marks.

Match their developing physical skills to tasks and activities in the setting. For example, they decide whether to crawl, walk or run across a plank, depending on its length and width.

Choose the right resources to carry out their own plan. For example, choosing a spade to enlarge a small hole they dug with a trowel.

Collaborate with others to manage large items, such as moving a long plank safely, carrying large hollow blocks.

Use one-handed tools and equipment, for example, making snips in paper with scissors.

Use a comfortable grip with good control when holding pens and pencils.

Show a preference for a dominant hand.

Be increasingly independent as they get dressed and undressed, for example, putting coats on and doing up zips.

Possible content:

'Jungle Journey' - book (Gross/Fine)

Building in role play jungle

Scissor skills - cutting jungle trails/plant shapes.

Bon-voyage party for Regina - flags/streamers - perform a jungle song.

PE

Real PE -Static Balance: One Leg

Theme - Jungle

Performing

Development Matters

Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary.

Use some of their print and letter knowledge in their early writing.

Content:

Writing information for Regina - lists/captions

Tickets/passports

Writing invitations, banners and messages for Bon Voyage party

Development Matters:

Develop fast recognition of up to 3 objects, without having to count them individually (‘subitising’).

Recite numbers past 5.

Say one number for each item in order: 1,2,3,4,5.

Know that the last number reached when counting a small set of objects tells you how many there are in total (‘cardinal principle’).

Show ‘finger numbers’ up to 5.

Link numerals and amounts: for example, showing the right number of objects to match the numeral, up to 5.

Experiment with their own symbols and marks as well as numerals.

Solve real world mathematical problems with numbers up to 5.

Make comparisons between objects relating to size, length, weight and capacity.

Content:

White Rose Activities

- Number 6

- Height and Length

- Capacity

Development Matters

Take part in simple pretend play, using an object to represent something else even though they are not similar.

Explore different materials freely, to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make.

Develop their own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them.

Join different materials and explore different textures

Create closed shapes with continuous lines, and begin to use these shapes to represent objects.

Listen with increased attention to sounds.

Remember and sing entire songs.

Sing the pitch of a tone sung by another person (‘pitch match’).

Sing the melodic shape (moving melody, such as up and down, down and up) of familiar songs.

Possible content:

Jungle role play

Creating jungle art with natural materials

Making jungle decorations (flags) for Bon Voyage party.

Learning jungle songs and performing

Creating patterns using natural materials.

Music:

Oak Academy - Growth