Area of Learning

Autumn

Topic – Ourselves/Our Celebrations

Spring

Topic – Water

Summer

Topic – Farm Animals

Mathematical  Development

Number- Recite to 10 forwards/backwards. Count/recognise/order up to 5.

Number rhymes - “5little monkeys”, “Can you count from 1-10”?

Measures- Compare 2 objects for size.

Shape and space - Recognise/name 2D shapes. Make simple patterns. Use language of position- behind, in front etc.

Sorting - for 1 or 2 properties.                       

Number- Recite to 15. Count/recognise/order up to 10. Count in 2’s. Find 1 more/less.

Number rhymes - “!,2,3,4,5”, “5 little ducks”, “5 little speckled frogs”,  “2,4,6,8 Johnny caught a flat skate”, “When I was 1”.

Measures -Order 3 objects for size, height and weight. Capacity – full, empty, half-full. Time - Days of the week.                                          

Shape and space - Recognise/sort 3-D shapes

Number -  Recite to 20. Count in 10’s . Add 2 small groups of objects up to 10. Count how many are left when some objects are taken away.

Number rhymes - “1,2 buckle my shoe”, “There were 10 in the bed”.

 Measures-  Money - Recognise and use coins. Time- O’clock.

Shape and space - Name 3-D shapes.                                     

Knowledge  and Understanding of the World

Learn the names of parts of the body. Look at old toys and compare with new.  Use senses to investigate. Find out about harvest,  celebrations, birthdays, Christmas.

 ICT - Graphics programme “Paint”. Send/ receive a www, Santa message. Go on an Autumn hunt.  Windy day activities. “We’re going on a bear hunt” activities. Find out about squirrels and hedgehogs in Autumn.

Places we go on holiday. Identify natural feat-ures such as beaches, cliffs, rock pools. Explore water, ice, bubbles. Pond dipping. Visit to the wetlands and beach. ICT - Directions forward, backwards left, right using “Pixie” and beebot programmable toy. Snowy day activities. Rainy day activities. Go on a Winter hunt. Go on a Spring hunt. Find out about birds in winter- How many birds can you see/hear? Build a nest for a bird. How many worms can you find? Investigate children’s questions.

Identify features – farms. Visit to a farm. Visit to see chickens/visit from chickens.

Sort animals into groups – Farm, sea, minibeasts.Design and make a minibeast.

ICT – Use “Textease” to write letters, words, sentences for a farmbook.

Sunny day activities. Shadows. Go on  minibeast hunts. Go on a Summer hunt. Explore new life by watching chicks hatching out of eggs.    

Personal and   

Social   development

Golden Rules. Golden Time. Role-play in the “house”. Circle Time – I roll the ball to my friend . . . The tambourine goes round and round. P4C – Stand up game. Thinking stories – “Goldilocks and the three bears”, “Can’t you sleep little bear?”.

Circle time – Opinions, likes/dislikes about sea creatures, pond creatures, My favourite place is Role-play in under the sea. P4C - Special objects from water – shells pebbles, starfish. Thinking stories – “Sharing a shell”, “Who sank the boat”, “The Ugly Duckling”.

Circle time – “The Handy Band”, What makes me happy/sad.

Role-play on the farm. P4C – “The wind blows”. Thinking stories – “Egg drop”, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, “Wooly Sheep”, “Barty’s scarf”.

Creative Development

Autumn collage. Painting - Myself.

Printing - Fruit and vegetables. Hand and foot prints.

Songs – “Heads, shoulders”, “I have a Body”. Instruments - Hot Potato

Music games  “Everybody do this”,

Sea pictures using colour mixing. Collage of “The Rainbow fish”. Bubble painting. Drawings of objects from the beach. Clay – Egg tiles.

Songs – “Row your boat”, “A sailor went”

Rhythms – sea creatures names.

Composing – under the sea music

Music games – The big ship sails.  

Movement and dance – Under the sea.  

Symmetrical butterfly patterns.

Songs - “Chick, chick, chick chick chicken”, “Spring chicken”, “Cows in the kitchen”.

 Music games – “Old MacDonald”, “Doing the Animal Bop”.   

Physical Development

Outdoor games - Vegetable Soup, Fruit salad, What’s the time Mr Wolf?

Co-ordination exercises – Marching, jumping jacks, windmills.

Write Dance-The volcano, A walk in the country, Circles and eights.

PE -  Moving safely on apparatus.

Outdoor games -  Froggie, Feed the cockles, Captain’s coming.

Co-ordination exercises – Pass the beanbag, crawling through hoops, heel toe walking a line.

Write Dance - Robot, The train, The growing tree

PE - Apparatus. Balance, jumps.

Outdoor games – Duck and Goose, Black Cat, Creep mouse, creep, Tails, Farmyard, Queenie.

Co-ordination exercises – Balance kneeling, hopscotch.

Write Dance – Silver wings over the sea, cats, Mandala

Dance – Animals and insects.

Welsh Language Development

Y Tywydd - Sut mae’r tywydd? Mae hi’n bwrw glaw/eira/braf/wyntog/gymylog/oer.  Dillad- Beth wyt ti’n wisgo? Dw i’n gwisgo cot/crys T/siorts/sandalau/sbectol haul/ esgidiau/siwmper/treinyrs/sgarff/menig.

Lliwiau – coch/oren/melyn/gwyrdd/glas.

Cofestri – yma/ddim yma/eisteddwch/ barod/ gwrandewch.

Yn siopa - Ga i afal/teisen/sydd oren/sicled/ creision os gwelwch yn dda? Cei/na chei.

Picnic – Beth sy yn y fasged? Mae . . . yn y fasged.

Caneuon  – “Ga i greision”, “Picnic bendigedig”.

Gemau – “Ga i . . .”,  “Beth sy yn y fasged”.

Rhifo – 1-5.

Cyfarchion – Pwy wyt ti? . . . dw i/bore da/ prynhawn da/hwyl fawr.

Y Fferm - Sut wyt ti? Da iawn/wedi blino/hapus/ trist/bendigedig/gweddol/ofnadwy.

Yn dost - Beth sy’n bod? Dwi’n dost. Mae pen/ bola tost gyda fi.

Mae hi’n amser - cinio/chwarae/stori/ mynd adre .

Caneuon  – “Dewch am dro”, “Pen a bola”

Gemau - “Clap, clap, un, dau, tri”, “Dafad ydw i”

Rhifo – 1-5.

Cyfarchion –  Sut wyt ti?