Topic – Toys/Living things and Growth
Term:
Summer 2024
Class:
Puffins
Year Group:
Reception
Teacher:
Mrs Hall
English:
‘The Sea Saw’
Order, retell and rewrite the story.
‘Kippers Toy Box’
Caption writing, speech bubbles.
‘Jack and the Beanstalk’
Retell and order the story, describe characters and settings.
‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’
Create own version of the story
Maths:
To 20 and beyond
· Build numbers beyond 10
· Count patterns beyond 10
· Spatial reasoning
· Match, rotate, manipulate
First, then, now
· Adding more
· Taking away
· Compose and decompose
Find my pattern
· Doubling
· Sharing and grouping
· Even and odd
· Visualise and build
On the move
· Deepening understanding
· Patterns and relationships
· Mapping
Understanding the World
· Investigate seasons and weather
· Investigate materials, what materials are toys made out of? What are the best materials?
· Learning about plants and how they grow
· Growing our own beans.
· Life cycle of a caterpillar
· Investigating and tasting fruit
· Look at a map of the UK and cities, towns, villages near the sea, inland or on islands of the UK.
· Looking at old and new toys
· Investigate what sort of telephones people used before they had mobiles
· Learning about castles