Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Spring Term Overview - Fairytales

Language, Literacy and Communication:

  • Re-telling stories / news
  • Character profiles
  • Play scripts
  • Dictionary / alphabetical order
  • Rhyming poems
  • Story writing/ story endings
  • Role-play / Hot- seating
  • Reading and spelling high frequency words
  • Recap Jolly Phonic spelling
  • Grammar - capital letters, sentences, common nouns, proper nouns, plurals, a/an
  • Handwriting

Mathematical Development

  • Recognising number names
  • Counting in 10's from a 1 digit number
  • 1 / 10 more /less
  • Adding 10's
  • Ordinal numbers
  • Comparing and ordering numbers
  • weight- heavy / light
  • Addition facts - 7, 8, 9 and 10
  • Subtraction
  • Positional language
  • 3D shapes- recognition and properties
  • Time - o'clock
  • Tables

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

  • Naming and sorting materials
  • Transparent, translucent, opaque
  • Magnets
  • Waterproof materials
  • Pushes and pulls
  • Wash day in the past
  • Electrical appliances comparing now/ then
  • Life of Florence Nightingale
  • Comparing locality / homes
  • Easter story

ICT

  • Using a word processor
  • Recording sounds- Tuff Cam, microphone
  • Create labels
  • Create posters
  • Sorting objects
  • Using a word bank

Creative Development

  • Clay models
  • Junk modelling
  • Half finished pictures
  • Printing
  • Collage
  • Dance - respond to a story stimulus
  • Link and perform contrasting actions
  • Music -explore pulse and rhythm
  • Identify and recognise beat, rhythm and pitch
  • Make apple crumble
  • Design a pair of shoes
  • Easter and Mother's day cards

Physical Development

  • Roll a ball accurately
  • Travel in a variety of ways
  • Bowl at different speeds and directions
  • Bounce a ball
  • PESS-Gymnastics
  • Weaving
  • Digging / planting

PSD, WB & CD

  • Talk about feelings and emotions positively
  • Set simple goals
  • Mothering Sunday
  • Winter walk
  • Lives of children in other countries
  • Welsh identity

Welsh Language Development

  • Weather
  • Verbs
  • Commands
  • Likes / dislikes