Language, Literacy and Communication
· Listening to a range of sea/pirate/island stories including big books,films and CD's
· Jolly Grammar 1- adjectives, adverbs, verbs, plurals, antonyms, speech marks, questions
· Jolly phonics spellings– ew,ou,ow,oi,oy,or,al,nk,er,ir,ur,au,aw
· Illustrated dictionary on theme
· Sequencing stories – beginning, middle and end.
· Read and spell high frequency words
· Handwriting – letter formation
· Re-telling theme related stories (fantasy)
Mathematical Development
• Tables, time 0’ clock and half past, timing
• Grouping and counting in 10’s and 5’s
• 10 more / 10 less
• Adding 10’s and 1's
• In between numbers, ordering numbers to 50 and beyond
• Capacity
• Addition and subtraction facts- making 7, 8, 9 and 10’s.
• Coins, adding and making amounts, giving change
• Odds and evens
• Adding crossing a multiple of 10 by counting on.
• Taking away- 1’s and 10's
Personal and Social Development, wellbeing and Cultural Diversity
· Role-play pirate situations – discuss choices characters have made and their effect on others
· Write a Pirate code for role-play area reflecting their values e.g no washing, don’t hog the rum!
· Pirate party – children dress up, play games and dance to sea shanties!
· ‘Relationships’ - Knowing myself. Understanding my feelings. Managing my feelings. Understanding the feelings of others.
· ‘Changes’ – Knowing myself, Planning to reach a goal, Making choices
Physical Development
• Games to develop control of body movements,
• Throwing, catching and striking a ball with accuracy.
• Carrying apparatus safely.
• PESS- Gymnastics - creating sequences of shapes and actions
• Using tuff cam to evaluate own performance.
• Fine motor- drawing, chalking, painting, cutting, and modelling
• Play‘pirate ship’s’ and ‘walk the plank'
• Create pirate obstacle courses
Creative Development
· To respond to a story or theme stimulus – Pirate songs/dance
· Explore instruments and symbols
· Partner pictures- pirate scenes
· Design and make a pirate ship flag - Evaluate own design and improve.
· Make cakes, cookies, sandwiches in the shape of seaside objects for pirate party.
· Create a ‘pirate sea chest’ with individual belongings
Knowledge and Undertsanding of the World
• Identify what they want to find out about the topic andidentify how to find out what they want to know.
• Research famous pirates
• Find out and label parts of a pirate ship
• Research variety of boats/shipwrecks/life at sea
• Create pirate plans and treasure Island maps.
• Use co-ordinates to follow a map
• Be environmentally friendly / aware of the dangers to sea creatures/ know about pollution at sea.
• Investigate making an eye patch and looking at things with one eye
• Investigate using cylinders to make a telescope
• Investigate floating and sinking by testing the amount of loot their boot will carry
Welsh Language Development
· Speaking, reading and writing using welsh language patterns covering:
· Greetings
· Transport
· Clothing – sort and label
· Theme related songs
