Fiction

The 3 Billy Goats Gruff

Slightly more challenge to this traditional tale for the end of year. Fits well with trips out to the woods.

Poetry

Focus nursery rhymes:

Ten Green Bottles
Zoom zoom zoomFive little speckled frogs

Songs and rhymes about numbers

Non-fiction:

Recount Text: trip to the woods to find the troll! 

Reading Spine

Percy The Park Keeper: The Secret Path - Nick Butterworth

Oi Frog - Kes Gray & Jim Field

Development Matters

Develop their sense of responsibility and membership of a community.

Play with one or more other children, extending and elaborating play ideas. Help to find solutions to conflicts and rivalries.

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.

Content:

Circle Time

Role Play

Jobs/tasks to help Percy

Joining together as Park Keepers to look after the outdoor environment.

Jigsaw/Jerrie Cat - Relationships

Talking about what we are proud of with Jerrie Cat

Snack Time social chat

Development Matters

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.

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

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.

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

Content:

Using tools to help Percy.

Building homes for animals in the 'park'

Making seed packets

Planting seeds

PE

Real PE - Agility- Ball Chasing

Theme - Squirrel

Giving instructions to each other

Development Matters

Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary.

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

Content:

Mark-making - lists for Percy, labelling

Daily stories

Role Play

Development Matters:

Compare quantities using language: ‘more than’, ‘fewer than’. 

Talk about and explore 2D and 3D shapes (for example, circles, rectangles, triangles and cuboids) using informal and mathematical language: ‘sides’, ‘corners’; ‘straight’, ‘flat’, ‘round’.

Understand position through words alone – for example, “The bag is under the table,” – with no pointing.

Describe a familiar route.

Discuss routes and locations, using words like ‘in front of’ and ‘behind’.

Select shapes appropriately: flat surfaces for building, a triangular prism for a roof, etc.

Combine shapes to make new ones – an arch, a bigger triangle, etc.

Begin to describe a sequence of events, real or fictional, using words

Possible content:

Help 'Bee'bots get back to the hive

Counting routines (eg. Daily class count)

Shape pictures

Shape building

Sequencing linked stories

Sequencing activities - planting seeds

Content:

White Rose Activities:

- Sequencing- Positional Language
- More than/ fewer- 2D Shape- 3D Shape

Development Matters

Join different materials and explore different textures.Develop their own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them.

Draw with increasing complexity and detail, such as representing a face with a circle and including details.

Content:

Building animal homes

Observational paintings and drawings

Painting with nature (flowers as brushes/printing)

Focus Artist - Claude Monet (Water lillies)

Music:

Oak Academy - Habitats