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1 South Camberley Primary and Nursery School Curriculum Planning Half Term 6 Week Planning Please highlight the term Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2 Year Group: Nursery Topic Title: Personal Social and Emotional Development Making Relationships Interested in others play and starting to join in. (22-36) Seeks out others to share experiences. (22-36) Can play in a group, extending and elaborating play ideas, e.g. building up a role-play activity with other children. Self-Confidence and Self- Awareness Expresses own preferences and interests. (22-36) Can select and use activities and resources with help. Confident to talk to other children when playing, and will communicate freely about own home and community. P Managing Feelings & Behaviour Begins to accept the needs of others and can take turns and share resources, sometimes with support from others. P Can usually tolerate delay when How Does Your Garden Grow? Weeks 1 & 3 22/02/16 26/02/16 07/03/16 11/03/16 Mary, Mary Quite Contrary Titch Week 2 29/02/16 04/03/16 Mums/World Book Day Week 4 & 5 14/03/16 23/03/16 Fran s Flower Easter Celebrations (3 days) Explore and play in new role play areas: Flower Power Florist and Mary Mary s Garden Shed Encourage working co-operatively in role play. Select and use own materials (see EAD and PD) Small group games supported with an adult (see CL and M)

2 needs are not immediately met, and understands wishes may not always be met. CEL: P&E Engagement Taking on a role in their play Acting out experiences with other people Making Relationships Shows affection and concern for people who are special to them. SG (22-36) Self-Confidence and Self- Awareness Confident to talk to other children when playing, and will communicate freely about own home and community. P Managing Feelings & Behaviour Begins to accept the needs of others and can take turns and share resources, sometimes with support from others. P Can usually tolerate delay when needs are not immediately met, and understands wishes may not always be met. CEL: C & TC - Thinking Making links and noticing patterns in their experience } } Mothers what do they do for us? (Link CL) } Week 4: care of the environment not picking flowers, trampling plants etc. Awareness of litter and what bins are for un-nature trail activity

3 Communication and Language All 3 Aspects: Differentiated adult led Letters and Sounds Phase 1 activity in groups (see weekly plan) RWI: Auditory memory, auditory discrimination, sequencing, developing vocabulary and language comprehension Listening & Attention: Shows interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes. (22 36) Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall. Stories - see Literacy RWI Attend to stories, look at illustrations and story teller in a variety of group size. Join in repeated refrains and predict next part of the story eg. what might happen next or at the end. Respond and ask appropriate questions; who is in the story? what is happening? where is..? Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories. Understanding: Understands who, what, where in simple questions (e.g. Who s that/can? What s that? Where is.?). (22 36) Beginning to understand why and how questions. Responds to simple instructions. Speaking: Learns new words very rapidly and is able to use them in communicating. (22 36) Introduce words and language familiar with the current topic focus e.g. naming seeds, plants and flowers, parts of a plant, tools, growth words, (link M), book vocabulary and knowledge, Easter, care of the environment. Uses talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening and anticipate what might happen next, recall and relive past experiences. Uses vocabulary focused on

4 objects and people that are of particular importance to them Moving & Handling: Physical Development Continue Write Dance - gross motor movements using mark makers. (link Literacy): Continue Write Dance - gross motor movements using mark makers. (link Literacy): Continue Write Dance - gross motor movements using mark makers. (link Literacy): Beginning to use three fingers (tripod grip) to hold writing tools (22 36) Week 1 Mary, Mary RWI Week 3 Titch RWI Week 2 Snow White and the 7 Dwarves RWI Week 4 Fran s Flower RWI Imitates drawing simple shapes such as circles & lines. (22-36) Write over/copy own name into Mothers Day card Draws lines and circles using gross motor movements. Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp. Book week make your own book (booklets and made books available to mark make in) Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name. Picks up small objects between thumb and fingers. (8 20) Uses one-handed tools and equipment, e.g. makes snips in paper with child scissors. Writing opportunities in role play and with construction Name card practise for more able children Mark making materials, name cards and letter shapes can be transported from mark making area Mathematical mark making in games, (e.g. skittles). Planting cress seeds Counting out mini eggs, (see M) Create own package for Easter mini eggs printing and folding techniques, manipulate joiners and scissors, (eg tape and glue). CEL: P&E - Finding out and exploring Engaging in open-ended activity C & CT - Thinking Thinking of ideas Finding ways to solve problems

5 Literacy Reading: Repeats words or phrases from familiar stories. (22 36) Fills in the missing word or phrase in a known rhyme, story or game (22 36) Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall. Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories. Suggests how the story might end. Listens to and joins in with stories and poems, one-to-one and in small group. Describes main story settings, events and principal characters. Writing: Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint. Ascribes meanings to marks that they see in different places. Focus stories/rhymes RWI: Week 1: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Week 3: Titch, You ll soon grow into them Titch, Tidy Titch (Pat Hutchins) Focus stories/rhymes RWI: Week 2: Snow White and the 7 Dwarves, My Mum and Dad Make me Laugh (Nick Sharratt) World Book Day competition: daily Nursery rhyme clues Twinkle, Twinkle, Mary, Mary, Hickory Dickory, Incy Wincy, Baa Baa Black Sheep Join in World Book Day by dressing up as a book character. Can you guess who we are? Focus stories/rhymes RWI: Week 4: Fran s Flower (Lisa Bruce) Week 5: Dora s Eggs, Dora s Chicks (Julie Sykes) This Old Man rhyme (link M) Differentiated adult led reading activity in groups (see weekly plan) RWI Writing Assessment: Draw and picture of Mummy and mark make in response Book week make your own book (booklets and made books available to mark make in) Mark making opportunities as PD. Role play orders, recording telephone conversations, stock take Adults to draw attention to labelling around the environment writing, numbers and pictures

6 Mathematics Number: Selects a small number of objects from a group when asked, for example, please give me one, please give me two. (22 36) Recites some number names in sequence. (22 36) Uses some language of quantities, such as more and a lot. (22 36) Recites numbers in order to 10. Focus numbers 6, 8: Watch and respond to BBC programme Numbertime 6 & 8 Number table each week: objects with numeral on, sets of objects, number books, 6 insects, 8 - octopus Focus number 7: Watch and respond to BBC programme Numbertime 7 Number table each week: objects with numeral on, sets of objects, number books, 7 Snow White and the 7 Dwarves RWI In My Little Garden song (link EAD) Focus number 9, 10: Watch and respond to BBC programme Numbertime 9 & 10 Number table each week: objects with numeral on, sets of objects, number books, 10 number rhymes, eg. 10 elephants (+), 10 little monkeys (-), This Old Man (+) RWI Knows that numbers identify how many objects are in a set. Sometimes matches numeral and quantity correctly. Maths assessment/easter activity counting out eggs to 10 Creates and experiments with symbols and marks representing ideas of number. (22 36) Beginning to represent numbers using fingers, marks on paper or pictures. Differentiated adult led number activity in groups (see weekly plan) Maths Whizz available on the computer Number games differentiated table top and physical outdoor games. Mathematical mark making in games, (e.g. skittles). Shape, Space and Measures: Beginning to categorise objects according to properties such as shape or size. (22 36) Begins to use the language of size. (22 36) Orders two or three items by length or height. (40 60) Titch order family/belongings/plant for size Order class/groups for height and photograph Size and matching animal Mums and babies Shows awareness of similarities of shapes in the environment Replace items in role play by matching shapes and pictures. Uses positional language. Describe shapes eggs, Easter/Spring shapes

7 Beginning to talk about the shapes of everyday objects, e.g. round and tall. Handling coins and notes in role play shop. Understanding the World People & Communities: Shows interest in different occupations and ways of life. Role Play different occupations: Flower Power Florist, Mary Mary s Shed, Recognises and describes special times or events for family or friends. CEL: P&E - Finding out and exploring Showing curiosity about objects, events and people Mother s Day discussion World Book Day activities Who celebrates Easter and how? Cbeebies Preparing for/celebrating Easter clips (IWB TT), The World: Notices detailed features of objects in their environment. (22 36) Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world. Can talk about some of the Exploratory table: seeds, plants, pictures, artefacts, books on the topic, shells, observe rotting, (soft fruit in pot), live and dead flowers. Explore and observe change in the outdoor environment

8 things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects. Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time. Shows care and concern for living things and the environment Week 3 - plant and observe cress seeds grow Set up live flowers to watch decay Week 4 - What does a plant need to grow? Care of the environment not picking flowers, trampling plants etc. Awareness of litter and what bins are for CEL: P&E - Finding out and exploring Showing curiosity about objects, events and people un-nature trail activity Using senses to explore the world around them Expressive Arts and Design E & U Media & Materials: Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects. Experiments with blocks, colours and marks. (22-36) Explores colour and how colours can be changed. Pencil drawing of Mummy (see L:W) Photocopy and add colour; use colour washes/inks (use for Mothers Day card) Explore pastel shades: add white to colours Unit printing using Easter shapes Spring/Easter images available to create own ideas Sings a few familiar songs. Nursery rhymes including Mary, Mary. Use singing basket. RWI Music Express: Hello Mr Sun In My Little Garden (link M) Sing rhymes as M and CL Music Express: Don t Drop Litter, Selects tools and techniques needed to shape, assemble and join materials they are using. (40 60) Create own miniature garden using images and objects. Manipulate paper and fastenings to create own container for

9 CEL: P&E - Finding out and exploring Engaging in open-ended activity C & CT - Thinking Thinking of ideas Finding ways to solve problems Easter eggs. Visitors Being Imaginative Notices what adults do, imitating what is observed and then doing it spontaneously when the adult is not there. Engages in imaginative role-play based on own first-hand experiences. Uses available resources to create props to support roleplay. CEL: P&E Engagement Taking on a role in their play Acting out experiences with other people IN: Flower Power Florist OUT: Mary Mary s Garden Shed RWI Purpose of tools, acting out scenarios, shop customer, shopkeeper exchange. N/A Display How does your garden grow? (board),?? (corridor board), Number table 6-10, Topic Table. ECAT Top Tip number 35: Empty the washing machine with your child and talk about the size of the clothes (link CL, M and L) Home Learning Number focus (6, 8) Number focus (7) Number focus (9, 10)

10 Values 1. Passion 3. Nurturing 2. Respect 4. Creativity 5. Opportunity 6. High Aspirations SMSC Social, Moral, Spiritual, Cultural SG = safeguarding P = prevent RWI = Read, Write Inc

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