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This planning is a snap shot of what we do and a jumping off point for what I provide.

Mini beasts

Communication and Language

  • Learning the names of minibeasts

  • - Learning vocabulary to describe minibeasts

  • - Sharing experiences & things they have seen

  • - Asking questions

  • - Minibeast puppets to retell and create stories

  • - Creating our own minibeast stories

  • - Describing how minibeasts move

  • - Listening to information and stories about minibeasts

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Personal, social, emotional development

  • - If you were a minibeast, which would you be?

  • - What is your favourite minibeast?

  • - Do you have a favourite minibeast story?

  • -Small world play

  • - Following rules and routines to care for animals in our environment

  • - Sharing own knowledge and experience of minibeasts.

Physical Development​

  • - Moving our bodies like minibeasts

  • - Threading beads to make caterpillars

  • - Paper chain caterpillars

  • - Threading spider webs

  • - Handprint butterflies

  • - Andy’s wild workouts

  • - Minibeast pencil control & following patterns and trails

  • - Salt dough minibeasts

Literacy

  • Books- The Very Lazy Ladybird- The Very Busy Bee- I Love Bugs- Mad About Minibeasts- The Very Hungry Caterpillar

  • - Drawing and painting pictures of minibeasts

  • - Labelling using sounds learnt

  • Make a book about the minibeasts we have found

Mathematical Development​​

  • Ladybird addition and doubles

  • - Counting wings & legs

  • - Sorting & categorizing

  • - Size ordering

  • -Ordering numbers on caterpillars

  • -Making minibeasts from 2D shapes

  • -Symmetry with butterflies

  • -10 busy bees

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Understanding the world​

  • Minibeast hunt outdoors

  • - Finding out about minibeasts

  • - Spend time observing minibeasts.

  • - Caring for our world and the minibeasts, how can we look after them?

  • - Where do minibeasts live?

  • - Compare habitats

  • - Life cycles

  • - Using technology to capture images on minibeasts in our environment

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Expressive Arts and Design

  • Egg box bugs

  • - Finger painting minibeasts

  • - Making a minibeast hotel

  • - Minibeast songs

  • - Learning Incey Wincey Spider

  • - Making a minibeast headdress

  • - Dressing up as minibeasts

  • - Observational drawings

  • - Use percussion instruments to symbolise the sound of different creatures.

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