St Mary’s RC Medium Term Planning Grid – EYFS
Spring 1 2016 – It’s freezing!
Area of
learning
Week 1 (4 days)
The Polar Bear and
the snow cloud
Week 2
The polar bear and
the snow cloud
Week 3
Kippers snowy day
Week 4
One snowy night
Week 5
Snowman poem
Week 6
Little bit of winter
Communication
What do already
know about
Winter?
Sharing ideas about
what would be
under your snow
cloud.
Describe what
happens to the ice
in the water tray
What would you
do on a very cold
day?
Talk partners –
create a snowman
by drawing what
your partner says
Circle time – share
ideas for writing
activity
What would you
like to find under a
snow cloud?
Sorting clothes –
what would you
wear in the
winter/summer
What would you
need to wear in
the winter? –
what do we do to
keep warm
Cutting shapes to
make a penguin
Lacing frozen
characters
Write group poems
about winter
Message writing – if
you went to sleep for
a long time what
would like someone
to save for you?
and Language
Daily phonics
Personal, social
and emotional
development
Phase 3
What makes a
good friend?
Physical
development
Glittery shaving
foam – form letters
in the foam
Literacy –
reading and
writing
Write a list of
presents from
Santa
Chatterbooks
sessions
The polar bear and
the snow cloud
Shaving foam and
ice cubes
What would you
like to find under a
snow cloud?
Children write
caption to go with
a picture
Making snowballs
with glittery
dough/make
symmetry with our
bodies (PE)
Write the life cycle
of a snowman
Ice bowling
Writing
instructions –
how to build a
snowman
Mathematics
Addition – adding
winter themed
objects
Snowflake
symmetry/snowme
n
Filling snowballs
with buttons
(problem solving)
Weight –
snowballs
Ice bowling
Shape – make a
shape penguin
Doubling/halving
Sharing monkey nuts
between the
hedgehog and the
rabbit.
Expressing arts
and design
Make resources for
the role play
area/small world
Winter themed
pictures/decorating
symmetrical
snowman
Icing sugar and
water frost pictures
Make a shape
penguin – link with
maths
Ice cube painting
Understanding
the World
Introduce winter
and polar regions
and animals/small
world – polar
animals
Which animals live
in cold countries?
Shaving foam and
ice cubes
make an ice
snowman
in the water tray –
link with writing
(order the life cycle
of a snowman)
Make a
marshmallow
snowman to go on
the biscuit base
Re-create the story
of the week
Camouflage polar
bear
pictures/make an
animal from the
story
Sorting – what
would you wear
in the
winter/summer?
Chatterbooks – the
polar bear and the
snow cloud – what
is it like where
polar bears live?
What happens to
water when it is
frozen?
Polar bear
decorated with
coconut
Make a bird
feeder/snowball
feeder
Make an ice lolly
Weighing
snowballs
Dressing up ready
teddies for a winter
adventure
Act out the story of
the polar bear and
the snow cloud
Baking
Role play area
Make resources for
a winter
wonderland – artic
animal masks
Make biscuits for
the base of a
snowman for next
week
Continue to make
resources for the
role play area