MEDIUM TERM PLAN - CYCLE B 2015 – Autumn 2
Week 1 & 2
Big Qu
WOW
Focus
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Theme
wow
PSED
CAL
PD
Lit
Introducing the topic
What is cold?
Bonfire night &Diwali
What lights up the sky?
Big Talk homework from
before ½ term
Talking – confidence and
initiating ideas
Big Talk homework – what is
cold?
Celebration days
Understanding hot / cold –
appropriate clothing
Effects of activity on their
bodies
Factual sentences
What are you doing to celebrate
Bonfire night?
What can you see / hear / smell?
Sharing their ideas and experiences
UW
EAD
Role play
What is cold? – ideas board
Melting activities
Week 5
Week 6 & 7
Winter facts
What is winter?
Christmas
How do we celebrate Christmas?
Winter walk
Self – confidence –
speaking in front of others
Asking and answering
questions
Visit to Sundowners
Christmas concert
Expressing feelings – excited /
nervous / scared
Christmas concert
Firework dance
Scissor control
Animal movements - Penguin walk
(balloon between knees), slithering,
crawling, shuffling
Clothing / fastenings
Travels with confidence /
negotiating spaces
Snow angels
Firework film
Describing words – poetry
Diwali story
Retelling the story – story map
Wanted poster – ‘I want a friend …’ –
my friend needs to be
My friend Ongoing Maths planning
Winter describing
sentences
Adding labels to large cut
out for winter clothes
Nativity story
Christmas themed stories
Shape songs
Shape animals
Patterns – devising
patterns / matching
patterns
Winter walk –environment
/ weather / appropriate
clothing
I-board – winter clothes
Similarities and
differences
Snow dough (see recipe)
Free collage patterns
Winter trees printing
Painting with mittens
Shape – decorations
Positional language (for first
week back – powerpoint)
How Christmas is celebrated –
similarities and differences
Maths
Day & night / seasons /
Week 3 & 4
What is cold?
Visit to Sundowners
Polar Bear and the Snow cloud
Which animal would you choose to be
your friend?
Find a lonely polar bear – “please will
you be my friend?”
Being a good friend
Feelings – lonely / sad / happy
Sharing ideas / experiences
Role play
Sequencing of the day
Contrast – hot and cold
Fireworks on IWB
Chocolate apple pieces with coloured
tips
Celebrating Diwali – making divas /
mehndi patterns using face paint /
rangoli / cardamom play dough
Paintsicles
Colour patterns - Salad spinners /
Hot / cold colours
marbles in a tray / painting through a
sieve
Listening to Bonfire sounds and
making music
Diwali shop / burger van / firework factory
Outdoors - Role play bonfires – building using materials
Caring for a pet / animal – making a
house / food
Comparing places – Mansfield and
North Pole (Polar animals)
Tactile – shaving foam
Polar bear / polar animals in the ice –
how can we free it?
Polar bears using forks
Blue background (blowing /
colourwash) with polar bear
Black sugar/white chalk – free drawing
Igloo / snow scene and polar animals
‘Snowglobe’ – photo and
background and clear plate over
the top
Post office / Argos / Santa’s
workshop