Our Current Topic
This planning is a snap shot of what we do and a jumping off point for what I provide.
Transport
Communication and Language
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Set up an "On The Bus" role play area. Include hats and tickets to encourage collaborative play and communication.
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Learn the names of different types of transport.
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Make time to share experiences and things they have seen
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Asking questions
Personal, social, emotional development
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Help children to talk about their feelings.
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Use ramps and cars as an opportunity to learn sharing and turn taking.
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Talk about journeys that we take.
Physical Development
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Gross motor- Be a steam train, a bus, and aeroplane.
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Set up a "Journey" course - steering wheel, cones, etc.
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Provide wheely toys.
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Encourage the children to push, pull, lift and transport loose parts such as tyres, crates and planks.
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Provide construction activities and threading activities to encourage fine motor skills.
Mathematical Development
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Play transport dominoes and snap.
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Count everything.
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sort toy cars by colour and size.
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Use small word transport systems to talk about positional language.
Literacy
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Books- The Wheels on the bus, Up Up Up In A Balloon.
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Rhymes, Down By The Station, I ride my little tricycle, I'm Driving In My Car.
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- Labelling using sounds learnt
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Make a book about the transport we have seen.
Understanding the world
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Minibeast hunt outdoors
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- Finding out about minibeasts
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- Spend time observing minibeasts.
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- Caring for our world and the minibeasts, how can we look after them?
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- Where do minibeasts live?
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- Compare habitats
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- Life cycles
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- Using technology to capture images on minibeasts in our environment
Expressive Arts and Design
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Egg box bugs
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- Finger painting minibeasts
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- Making a minibeast hotel
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- Minibeast songs
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- Learning Incey Wincey Spider
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- Making a minibeast headdress
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- Dressing up as minibeasts
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- Observational drawings
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- Use percussion instruments to symbolise the sound of different creatures.