Medium Term Plan Reception, Summer 1 2014-2015 Journeys and Transport Week 1: Introducing Journeys and transport Thurs: boundaries 13/4/15 Send home HFW grid CL / lit Maths UW ( topic) PD EAD PSED Relationships Counting and Topic Lesson: sequences Introduction to topic. Focus: Lost and Found Read the story. Roleplaying of the story. How could we change the characters, talk about the characters personality, who would you take (Justify opinion) Why? Role Play: Props linked to Lost and Found. Phonics: Recap using Phonics Data ff, lll, ss, pp, Starter: Counting Focus: Number order, Reverse order, counting in 10 s, writing numbers in order. What do we know about Journeys and transport? Looking at existing understanding of journeys and transport. What do we already know? What would we like to know? Focus: Draw a picture and label/write sentences of an ideal journey. UW Lesson: Staying safe in a fire. What we should do in a fire? How can we prevent fires. Junk modelling our own toys of vehicles. FS display. EAD Lesson: Lowry Picture replications. Matchstick men.
Week 2: Holidays Thurs: Helping the community. Tidying the forest. 20/4/15 Fire engines visiting the school Focus: Lost and Found Talking about beginning middle and end, changing endings of the story. Happy, sad endings. Where would you go on the journey. Writing What would you ask the boy or the penguins. Speech Bubbles Role Play: Small world figures linked to lost and found. Phonics: ure, air, ear, Weight Starter: Ordering/ more less. Number order. Focus. Non standard measurement, using scales, ordering heave to lightest. How can we compare the weight of three objects. Topic Lesson Holidays. Holidays How could we go on holiday? Booking a holiday at travel agents, looking through brochures and picking destinations to travel to. How would we get there? Focus: Matching pictures of types of transport to holiday destinations, how would you get there. What would you take on holiday. Thurs: Helping the community. Tidying the forest. Making pirate maps. Using teabags for paper. Link to pirate roleplay. EAD LESSON: Music: Creating our own traveling songs as a class. Singing songs to nursery to judge. Expressing our own needs. Who we go to to talk about what we need and the right way to express our wants and needs. Week 3: Homes around the World Thurs: Habitats Mothers Day Paramedic/police response to visit the school. Talk Focus: Instructions. Key points of instructions. Looking at recipe books, real life instructions. Key point of instructions following number order. Writing instructions. Reading instructions, verbal instructions. Addition, Starter: Number. Focus: Additon. Topics Lesson: Planets- Airports Around Airports What happens at an Airport. Checking in, looking around the shops at an airport. Watching planes take off. Going on a trip. Focus: What would we `Staying safe on Roads posters to display in orchard. EAD Lesson: Drama: Acting out going on a holiday, preparing for a trip. Small roleplay in groups. How we express our feelings without hurting people
about travelling safely. 9/3/15 Link to cooking. Role Play: Cooking utensils. Chefs outfits. Phonics: oo, ee, ai, oi Group size, bigger smaller, Combining groups. Counting total. Recording addition. Using number line. need in our suitcase poster. Flying planes. What makes a good flying plane? What helps the plane stay in the air. Competition, happy for our friend. Thurs: Habitats, create our own animal habitats. Week 4 Famous Buildings Around the World Thurs: being active 16/3/15 Visit Nursery. Focus: Travelling poems. Bus in a rush Look at poems, talking about The words the author uses. Writing a class poem. Describing travelling and transport. Using pictures to support. Role Play: Train driver, bus driver, hats. Chairs and fabrics to make vehicles Phonics: recap, Starter: Doubling using hands. E.g. Show me double 2 Focus: Time Times of the day, morning, afternoon, evening. Sequencing. Days of the week. O clock times. Topics Lesson Boats. Travelling on the sea. Looking at travelling boats: Leaving the port? Travelling on the water. What would you like about travelling on the boats? Focus: Writing about a postcard on a boat, where we would like to visit and sharing with friends. UW Lesson: Floating and sinking link. What makes something sink or float? How does this link to boats? Can we talk Make our own boats. Which will float best? See link to UW lesson. EAD Lesson: Learning Songs for poplar house. Practicing actions to help us present..
about heavy and light objects? Making predictions. Week 5 Local Area Thurs: Changes in Spring Easter Poplar house. To sing songs 23/3/15 Focus: Rhyming poems. Under the sea poem Looking at the sounds which match orally and visually. Creating our own rhyming strings: Words that rhyme attached to each other with string for class display/ Writing board. Role Play: Acting out the Two Bears Poem Phonics: recap Capacity, *teen numbers Starter: Shape. Focus: language of capacity e.g. full, empty. Comparing capacity, tall and thin, short and wide. Measuring. Wellie Wednesday: Being Active, how the environment contributes to a healthy lifestyle. Topics lesson: Local Area How do we travel around the local area? How do we get to places? Local bus? What can we find in a local area? Focus: Label and create our own maps of the local area. UW LESSON: Easter celebrations. How do people celebrate Easter? Symbolism of eggs? What do we know about Easter? Cooking: Baking car biscuits. Icing and decorating. EAD LESSON: Art: Painting with natural resources. Natural resources/texture. Week 6 Nikki Last week. Focus: Talk for Writing continuation. Subtraction., *teen Wellie Wednesday: Changes in Summer, what happens to the environment in summer. Topics lesson: School. Walking around the school, Asking questions Paint a picture of what you see on your way to
School train trip Thursday 21st day of term. Bring your bikes /scooters/ to school. Wheels on the bus Story mapping. Children to create own maps as the book is read. Elements to be changed by children using imagination/ focus on justifying. Role Play: Acting out the Two Bears Poem numbers Focus: Mental subtraction, number line,; one less two less. Comparing group group size. of adults? How has the school changed etc. Focus: Photo journals of our favourite places in the school/staff, talk about why we like that place in the school. Writing instructions for around the school. school. UW LESSON Class model of our school. Combining different materials to resemble how our school looks SMSC LOTC Visits IPADS used every Monday in whole FS