Personal, Social and Emotional
Development
Turn taking games – Bear and honey, maths
games with dice and shapes
Taking turns in role play games/activity
Kind hands tree – reintroduce and encourage
Trying new foods – porridge/honey/flapjack
To develop use of floor book and turn taking in
conversations while listening to others.
Literacy
Together we learn
Hart Hill Nursery School and Children’s Centre
Medium Term Plan
Spring Term First Half
Curriculum Focus:
Mathematics
To have keywords from core stories on graphics table
for reading and writing.
Variety of trad tales available for sharing.
Sequencing pictures of events from the core stories and
stages of cooking porridge.
Making simple maps for the pigs/bears using diff media.
Communication and Language
Expressive Art and Design
Talking tub linked to bears, building/bridge, 3
Pigs. Generate language linked to topic.
To role play traditional tales using appropriate language.
To paint and draw pictures of bears, pigs.
To read the traditional tales and encourage
children to share and recall these.
Use signs for stories and story book language
when sequencing story events and in role play
when retelling stories.
Mathematics
Making bear masks
Physical Development
Cut out and sequence story book events.
Making houses & bridges, using sticks, bricks, sand,
trowels, construction kits, material and drapes
New songs – House of the bears, Five little wooly teddy
bears, Five little bears, Bear went over the mountain
Making Porridge/honey sandwiches using one
handed tools.
Understanding the World
ICT – Research on laptop/I Pad on bears, pigs, goats
linked to children’s interests.
Role play area to develop understanding of 1:1
correspondence, counting, and sharing out.
To play aiming, throwing and catching games
in PE sessions using small balls, large balls,
bean bags and quoits.
Compare bears and dice games, build a bear
game.
To negotiate balancing equipment inside and
out – stepping stones/hoops/strings
Making Porridge talking about change.
Sorting by size bears/bowls/spoons/houses
Manipulating clay – bowls for bears, stick
houses for the pigs.
Exploring the woodland walk area/Walk in local area.
Bridge/house building 3D shapes &construction kits
Bears balancing songs adding one more
Use BeeBot to negotiate simple routes/bridges.
Building houses/homes and Dens – exploring materials
Exploring Ice and change in state.
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