Reception Scheme of Work Summer Term 1 2013 Growing Medium Term Plans For Activities for Summer Term 1 Topic – “Growing” Reception Week 1 Jack and the beanstalk Role Play: Giants Castle Communication and Language Physical Development Working towards ELG01 They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play. Working towards ELG04 Children show good control and co‐ordination in large and small movements. They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Travels with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment. Focussed Activities Include: Encourage children to use Jack and Beanstalk role play area. Encourage use of story language. Read a variety of other traditional tales e.g. Cinderella, 3 little pigs etc. Focussed Activities Include: Use climbing in hall. Encourage children to see how high they can climb. Use trim trail. Encourage children to climb, jump, walk etc. Plant own sunflower seeds Make flowers using brightly coloured playdough and various tools / cutters . PSED Working towards ELG07: Children talk about how they and others show feelings, talk about their own and others’ behaviour, and its consequences, and know that some behaviour is unacceptable. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60months: Aware of own feelings, and knows that some actions and words can hurt others’ feelings. Focussed Activities Include: Encourage the children to think about how their actions affect others. How did Jack’s actions affect the giant and vice versa. Literacy Mathematics Understanding the World Expressive Arts and Design Working toward ELG10 They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Attempts to write short sentences in meaningful contexts. 30 – 50 months: Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint. Working towards ELG11 Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Working towards ELG14 They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change. Working toward ELG16 They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function. Steps to achieving tis include: 40 – 60 months: Selects tools and techniques needed to shape, assemble and join materials they are using. Focussed Activities include: Retell story of Jack and Beanstalk. Use familiar words and pictures. Write a recount of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Counts objects to 10, and beginning to count beyond 10. 30 – 50 months: Realises not only objects, but anything can be counted, including steps, claps or jumps. Focussed Activities Include: - - Grow a sunflower with numbers to 50 on each leaf. Add a number on each day Beanstalk number activities Focussed Activities Include: Plant own sunflower seeds. Discuss what might happen to the seeds. Encourage children to go into nature area and explore other plants. (Remind children of health and safety – not touching berries/ nettles etc.) Focussed Activities Include: Paint and add glitter to make ‘magic beans’ then place in sand to sieve. Make flowers using tissue paper and pipe cleaners, also threading and sewing Week 2 A tiny seed Role Play: Garden Centre Working towards ELG:02 They answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion. 30 – 50 months: Beginning to understand ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions. Focussed Activities Include: Prompt children to ask questions (what, how etc) about the story of the small seed. Show children the seeds planted in the previous week. Encourage them to ask ‘why’ questions as to what are happening while the seed is in the compost. Working toward ELG04: They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space. They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Uses simple tools to effect changes to materials. Experiments with different ways of moving. Focussed Activities Include: - - - Complete a scarf dance using Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite 'Flower waltz' Watercolour paintings using real flowers as stimulus. Children to create their own flower picture using a variety of different materials and media. Working towards ELG06: They are confident to speak in a familiar group, will talk about their ideas, and will choose the resources they need for their chosen activities. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions. 30 – 50 months: Confident to talk to other children when playing, and will communicate freely about own home and community. Focussed Activities Include: Encourage the children to talk about their own ideas for the scarf dance and what movements they want to put in. Encourage children to think about which resources they will need to make their flower pictures. Are they confident enough to find their own? Working towards ELG10: Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence. 30 – 50 months: Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint. Working towards ELG11: Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Focussed Activities include: Children to write the journey of a seed. Write on seed shaped paper what a seed looks like, feels like, smells like etc. use these petals to add to a large flower on the display board. Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Counts objects to 10, and beginning to count beyond 10. Working towards ELG12: Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Orders two or three items by length or height. Orders two items by weight or capacity. Focussed Activities Include: Counting activities in garden centre Grow a sunflower to 50 – use every day to grow the sunflower. Bean plant diary – over 5 weeks explaining the planting and growth of beans also comparing lengths and widths Working towards ELG14 They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change. Focussed Activities include: As previous week: Encourage children to go into nature area and explore other plants. (Remind children of health and safety – not touching berries/ nettles etc.) Working towards ELG16: Children sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Explores the different sounds of instruments. 30 – 50 months: Explores and learns how sounds can be changed. Focussed Activities Include: Listen to Vivaldi’s Spring from the 4 season. Encourage children to make up their own composition using percussion instruments to represent a seed growing into a flower Make flowers using tissue paper and pipe cleaners Week 3 The Hungry Caterpillar The Ugly Duckling Role Play: Garden Centre + minibeasts Working towards ELG03: They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play. Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations. 30 – 50 months: Uses talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play, e,g, ‘This box is my castle.’ Focussed Activities Include: Encourage children to use the role play area with the various props and resources. Encourage the children to pretend to be the hungry caterpillar in the nature area and look for various foods. Working towards ELG05: Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Eats a healthy range of foodstuffs and understands need for variety in food. Focussed Activities Include: Talk about the range of food that the caterpillar ate during the week. Which were healthy and not? Look at a packed lunch box and talk about which food to put in. Working towards ELG08: They show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say. 30 -50 months: Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults. Focussed Activities Include: Talk about how the caterpillar changed into a butterfly. How do they think he would have felt before hand and afterwards? Encourage children to think about how their actions might impact on others. Working towards ELG10: Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence. 30 – 50 months: Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint. Focussed Activities Include: Send a food diary home and ask children to write what they eat during the week. Write about our favourite foods. Working towards ELG12: Children use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. They recognise, create and describe patterns. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Measures short periods of time in simple ways. Uses familiar objects and common shapes to create and recreate patterns and build models. 30 – 50 months: Shows an interest in shape and space by playing with shapes or making arrangements with objects. Focussed Activities Include: Sequence the days of the Week Make symmetrical butterflies, ladybirds etc. Working towards ELG14: They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change. 30 – 50 months: Shows care and concern for living things and the environment. Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects. Focussed Activities Include: Encourage children to make their own bug hotel by stacking plant pots on top of each other. Encourage the children to find various natural materials e.g. leaves for the hotel. Working towards ELG15: They select and use technology for particular purposes. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Uses ICT hardware to interact with age-appropriate computer software. Focussed Activities Include: ICT - use www to find information on life cycles etc Working towards ELG16: Children sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Begins to build a repertoire of songs and dances. Explores the different sounds of instruments. 30 – 50 months: Enjoys joining in with dancing and ring games. Beginning to move rhythmically. Focussed Activities Include: Learn the caterpillar song. Take children round the playground with each child being part of the caterpillar’s body. Song the song at the same time. Working towards ELG16: They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Understands that different media can be combined to create new effects. Focussed Activities Include: Each child paint/glue/stick their own circle in green to create the caterpillar’s body. Stick the circles together to create the body. Working towards ELG16: They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Understands that different media can be combined to create new effects. - Week 4 The Teeny Weeny Tadpole. Role Play: Garden Centre and Minibeasts. Working towards ELG01: Children listen attentively in a range of situations. They listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Maintains attention, concentrates and sits quietly during appropriate activity. Focussed Activities Include: Read a variety of stories about frogs, tadpoles and other such pond water creatures. Encourage the children to respond with their own comments and questions about the stories Week 5 Titch Avocado Baby Baby Brains Role Play: Baby Clinic Working towards ELG03: They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Working towards ELG04: Children show good control and coordination in large and small movements. They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles. Travels with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment. Focussed Activities Include: - Play chase games on playground where children pretend to be frogs/tadpoles etc. - Encourage children to move like the various creatures that live in a pond. Working towards ELG04: Children show good control and coordination in large and small movements. They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space. They handle equipment and Working towards ELG06: They are confident to speak in a familiar group, will talk about their ideas, and will choose the resources they need for their chosen activities. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions. 30 – 50: Confident to talk to other children when playing, and will communicate freely about own home and community. Focussed Activities Include: Encourage children to talk to the rest of class about the things they noticed about the tadpoles. Encourage children to become increasingly independent when they need things in the classroom e.g. scissors from the creative area etc. Working towards ELG08: They show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children. Steps to achieving this include: Working towards ELG10: Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence. 30 – 50 months: Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint. Focussed Activities Include: Label a life cycle of a tadpole. Write sentences to explain the life cycle. Working towards ELG10: Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Uses Working towards ELG11: Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: In practical activities and discussion, beginning to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting. Focussed Activities Include: Add groups of frogs together. How many altogether? Play a simple board game where children have to add on numbers by rolling the dice. Working towards ELG12: Children use everyday language to talk about size, position, distance, to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems. They explore characteristics of everyday objects and Working towards ELG14: They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change. Focussed Activities Include: Investigate tadpoles over time. Photograph and film the tadpoles over time to record change. Working toward ELG14: Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things. Steps to achieving this include: Focussed Activities Include: Children to make their own little frogs using a range of different media. Sing a variety of different songs about frogs and tadpoles. Working towards ELG17: They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories. Steps to achieving this include: Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play. Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations. 30 – 50 months: Uses talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play, e,g, ‘This box is my castle.’ Focussed Activities Include: Tell stories about a baby who can do extraordinary things. Use dolls and puppets to orally tell stories before attempting to write. tools effectively, including pencils for writing. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles. Focussed Activities Include: Plan activities where children can practice moving in different ways and at different speeds, balancing, target throwing, rolling, kicking and catching. 40 – 60 months: Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say. 30 -50 months: Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults. Focussed activities Include: Talk about when they were a baby and what babies can do. some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence. 30 – 50 months: Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint. Focussed activities Include:: Make ‘A book about me’. Children write books and includephotos about what they could do when they were babies and what they can do now. Write stories about a baby who can do extraordinary things.. shapes and use mathematical language to describe them. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Orders two or three items by length or height. Focused activities Include: - Use language of comparison relating to height and length. building towers and comparing them - Collecting long and short things to display. - Measuring heights of children across the school, and also babies. - Week 6 Working towards ELG:02 They answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion. 30 – 50 months: Beginning to understand ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions. Emma’s Lamb Usborne Farmyard Tales Role Play: Pet shop - Focussed Activities Includes: - Encourage children to ask questions about Working towards ELG05: Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Shows understanding of the need for safety when tackling new challenges, and considers and manages some risks. Focussed Activities Include: - Road Safety, visit to the pet shop. - Talk with children in Working towards ELG08: They show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say. 30 -50 months: Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults. Focussed Activities Working towards ELG10: They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence. 30 – 50 months: Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint. Focussed Activities Include: - Write a letter to headteacher asking him Working towards ELG:11 Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Says the number that is one more than a given number. Finds one more or one less from a group of up to five objects, then ten objects. Counts objects to 10, and beginning to count 40 – 60 months: Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change. 40 – 60 months: Plays cooperatively as part of a group to develop and act out a narrative. Focussed Activities Include: - Look at the seasons and relate to the current changes in our environment. Focussed Activities Include: - Encourage children to use the role play corner as a baby clinic. - Leave the various baby stories in the role play corner for children to use as ideas in their play. Working towards ELG13: Children talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members. Steps to achieving this include: 30 – 50 months: Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experience. Focussed Activities Include: - Look at photographs of the chd as babies – compare to current what changes have happened. Working towards ELG14: They talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change. Focussed Activities Include: - Look at the different animals on a farm and where and how they live. - Encourage the children to rein act the Working towards ELG16: Children sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Begins to build a repertoire of songs and dances. Explores the different sounds of instruments. Focussed Activities Include: - Using the website below, make a variety of different farm animals to add to the display board. - Week 7 where the ‘school pet’ might live. - Are they too big for school? - What would they need if they were to live in school? Working towards ELG:02 They answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion. 30 – 50 months: Beginning to understand ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions. Animal Babies Topsy and Tim go to the Vets, Go to a Farm Role Play: Vets - - Focussed Activities Include: - Non-fiction texts – finding and locating information, comparing to fiction - Knowing and using capital letters preparation for farm visit, following week, about hand washing and touching animals at farms etc. - Working towards ELG04: They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Handles tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control. Uses a pencil and holds it effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed. Focussed Activities Include: - Encourage children to write letters carefully in various medias. Encourage children to think about the cursive handwriting pattern. Include: - Encourage children to listen carefully to others during whole class sessions. - Help children to show and display sensitivity towards others especially during CP activities e.g. sharing the construction toys, sharing the dressing up clothes. to buy a school pet, the funnier, the better! Working towards ELG08: They show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say. 30 -50 months: Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults. Working towards ELG10: They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Attempts to write short sentences in meaningful contexts. 30 – 50 months: Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint. Focussed Activities Include: - Encourage children to listen carefully to others during whole class sessions. - Help children to show and display sensitivity towards others especially during CP activities e.g. sharing the construction toys, sharing the dressing up clothes. beyond 10. Focussed Activities Include different scenes they might see on a farm through small world play. - Produce own pets pictogram. - Encourage children to work out which pet is the most popular. Focussed Activities Include: - Encourage children to write their own question about farm animals or things they want to find out about the farm for the school trip. - Children to write their own account of the school trip. - Encourage HA to work out differences between pets. Pets pictograms. - Tally children’s favourite pets. Working towards ELG11: Children count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Counts objects to 10, and beginning to count beyond 10. Finds one more or one less from a group of up to five objects, then ten objects. 30 – 50 months: Knows that numbers identify how many objects are in a set. Focussed Activities Include: - Counting sets of animals in the small world area. - Animal themed number formation sheets. Working towards ELG14: They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes. Steps to achieving this include:: 40– 60 months: Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change. Focussed Activities Include: - Matching animal babies to their parents. - Encourage children to look carefully at the different animals at the farm on the school trip. Working towards ELG17: They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories. Steps to achieving this include: 40 – 60 months: Initiates new combinations of movement and gesture in order to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences. Focussed Activities Include: - Encourage children to act out their own stories and narratives in the vet’s role play corner. - Encourage children to use the small world farm set. Observe any differences in narratives and stories before and after trip to farm. - Animal bingo 0-20, higher for HA. Website for EAD in week 6: http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/farm/ Area of Learning Communication and Language Physical Development Personal, Social and Emotional Development Literacy Mathematics Understanding the World Expressive Arts and Design ELG 01 Aspect Covered In Week 1, 4. 02 Listening and Attention Understanding 03 Speaking 3, 5 04 Moving and handling 1, 2, 4, 5, 7. 05 3, 6. 08 Health and SelfCare Self Confidence and Self-Awareness Managing feelings and behaviour Making relationship 09 Reading 10 Writing Objectives covered through guided reading, individual reading and phonics. All weeks 11 Numbers 12 14 Shapes, shapes and measures People and communities The World 15 Technology 3. 16 Exploring and using media and materials Being imaginative 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 06 07 13 17 2, 6, 7. 2, 4, 1. 3, 5, 6, 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7. 3, 5, 5. All weeks. 5, 7.
