Reception Medium Term Planning – SPRING 1 -WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS?
Personal, Social &
Emotional
Development
Physical
Development
Communication &
Language
Understanding
of the World
Expressive Arts
& Designs
Limmudei
Kodesh
January 4
What is your
favourite
dinosaur?
Discussing
favourite
dinosaur
What’s it like to
be different?
Drama, PE,
games, Forest
School, chalk
drawings on
ground, junk
modelling
Exploring mark
making and
literacy areas,
singing,
dinosaur
museum, car
mechanics,
Show and tell
Continue with
RWInc Set 1,
stories about
dinosaurs,
bones with
sounds on in
sand, labelling
museum
exhibits
Uses the language
of ‘more’ and
‘fewer’ to
compare two sets
of objects. Hook a
numbered duck.
Setting up
museum and
labelling
exhibits; names
of dinosaurs;
jobs people do
(car mechanic,
archaeologist)
Creating
dinosaurs from
junk; dinosaur
land using mud;
role play areas
Ivrit: the sound B=‫ב‬:
Key words: bracha,
banana, barvaz (duck)
LK: blessings on food
Parashah: Vaeira
The first 7 plagues in
Egypt.
Lesson: Hashem is
everywhere
January 11
How do we
know dinosaurs
lived on earth?
What’s it like to
be different?
Drama, PE,
games, Forest
School, digging
for fossils, using
clay
Exploring mark
making and
literacy areas,
dinosaur
museum, car
mechanics,
Show and tell,
drama
Continue with
Set 1 RWInc,
non-fiction
books, writing in
role play areas
Using quantities
and
objects, they
subtract two
single-digit
numbers
Discussion
about fossils,
read non-fiction
books, make
fossils
Make fossils
using clay;
dinosaur land
using mud, role
play areas
Phonic
assessments;
dinosaur story
books; labelling,
writing in role
play areas
Uses everyday
language related
to time. How fast
can the dino go
down the pipe?
Look at dinosaur
skeletons; new
vocab: names of
dinosaurs, parts
of body,
volcanos
Paint a picture of
a volcano; making
moving skeleton
of dinosaur, role
play areas.
Ivrit: the sound G=‫ג‬:
Key words: gezer
(carrot) glida (icecream) gamal (camel)
LK: blessings cont.
Prashah: BO. Moshe
gives the Jews clear
instructions to
prepare for leaving
Egypt
Lesson: the
importance of
following instructions
Ivrit: the sound z=‫ז‬:
Key words: zayit
(olive), zebra
LK: blessings cont.
Prashah: Beshalach
leaving Egypt hashem
preforms great
miracles: splitting the
sea and providing
manna
January 18
How do
dinosaurs
move?
If I was a
dinosaur I
would be …….
Discuss what do
you look like,
how do you
move?
PE, games,
Forest School,
make landscape
for dinosaurs in
garden,
playdough
Exploring mark
making and
literacy areas,
dinosaur
museum, car
mechanics,
Show and tell
Literacy
Mathematics
January 25
What do
dinosaurs eat?
Tu B’Shevat
February 1
Let’s make a
dinosaur!
Practise
assembly
February 8
Dinosaur
adventure
Class Assembly
Lesson: Hashem’s
miracles show that He
looks after us
Ivrit: revision of silent
letter ‫ ע‬and other
letters names of fruits
starting with that
letter: Etz (tree)
Anavim (grapes)
Rimon (pomegranate)
Tamar (dates)
LK: tu bishvat- and the
special fruits of
Israel(see above)
Parashah: Yitro. The
ten commandments
Lesson: honouring
your parents
If I was a
dinosaur I
would be …….
Discuss what do
you look like,
how do you
move?
PE, games,
Forest School,
use landscape
for dinosaurs,
wet sand,
making dino
food.
Exploring mark
making and
literacy areas
Singing,
dinosaur
museum, car
mechanics,
Show and tell,
drama using
masks
Begin Set 2
RWInc
Writing dinosaur
food lists;
dinosaur story
books.
They add two
single-digit
numbers. They
solve problems
including
doubling.
Carnivores,
herbivores,
omnivores.
Discuss Tu
B’Shevat. Take
photos of each
other in dino
masks using
IPad
Make dinosaur
masks, shaving
foam, mixing
food for
dinosaurs
outside using
lentils, soil etc.
Practise
assembly
PE, games,
Forest School,
large
construction
outside,
weighing
pebbles,
stretchy dough
Continue with
Set 2 RWInc,
dinosaur story
books, plan how
to make a
dinosaur,
writing in role
play areas
Orders two items
by weight. Weigh
dinosaurs.
Outside weigh
pebbles, sticks etc
using weighing
scales
Practise
assembly – what
have we learnt?
Parts of a
dinosaur –
construct large
model
Construct large
model of
dinosaur;
stretchy dough,
wet sand with
dinosaurs
Ivrit: the sound M= ‫מ‬
and final ‫ם‬. Ky words:
Melafefon (cucumber)
Mango, Mayim
(water)
LK: blessings on food
cont.
Parashah: Mishpatim.
Some more mitzvoth
learned from Hashem
Kosher- separating
meat and milk
Assembly –
February 11
Teamwork –
dinosaur
adventure in
woodland.
PE, games,
Forest School,
large
construction
outside, the
search for the
dinosaur, make
biscuits, buckets
and spades in
wet sand
Exploring mark
making and
literacy areas
Singing,
dinosaur
museum, car
mechanics,
Show and tell,
assembly
Exploring mark
making and
literacy areas,
dinosaur
museum, car
mechanics,
instructions for
archaeologist,
video stories:
how do we
capture a
dinosaur?
Consolidate
sounds taught
so far. Writing in
role play areas,
maps and
instructions to
find dinosaur
Count on or back
to find answers to
addition and
subtraction.
Class assembly
for parents;
searching for
dinosaur in
woodland – dino
adventure: what
do we need?
How do we
capture it?
What do we
look for?
Dinosaur hunter
hats; make
biscuits; dino
adventure in
woodland –
searching for a
dinosaur
Ivrit: Revision on all
sounds and words
learned so far
LK: revise the different
blessings for different
foods
Parashah: Trumah
The Jews begin to
build the Mishkan
Lesson: Saying tefillot
and doing mitzvot
help us to come closer
to Hashem