Fiction

The Enormous Turnip

Simple traditional tale with plenty of repetition. Can be linked with other ‘food’ traditional tales or helping each otherand can be adapted for any culturally relevant food. Fits well with recount of usual cooking activities in Nursery.

Poetry

Focus nursery rhymes:

Five Little Men in a Flying SaucerThis Little PiggyHumpty Dumpty

Songs and rhymes about colours

Non-fiction:

Instructions Text: how to make soup 

Reading Spine

You Choose - Pippa Goodhart & Nick Sharratt

Jasper's Beanstalk - Nick Butterworth & Mick Inkpen

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.

Possible content:

Circle Times with The Colour Monster

Reinforce 'snack time' routines

Jigsaw/Jerrie Cat - Dreams and Goals

Development Matters

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.

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.

Possible content:

Role Play - Art studio - drawing/painting/cutting

PE

Real PE -Static Balance: One Leg

Theme - Pirates

Giving instructions/feedback

Development Matters

Understand the five key concepts about print:- print has meaning

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

Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary.

Possible content:

Stories related to art/artists

Writing labels/captions for gallery

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 1

- Number 2

- Number 3

Development Matters

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.

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

Use drawing to represent ideas like movement or loud noises.

Show different emotions in their drawings and paintings, like happiness, sadness, fear etc.

Explore colour and colour-mixing.

Possible content:

Study of 3 artists - Pollock, Kandinsky and Van Gogh

Use as inspiration for own art work.

Role play -  Art studio

Outdoor art - using natural materials

Music:

Oak Academy: Out and About