Reception Medium Term Plan – OUTDOORS AND ADVENTURES
SPRING A
Week 2: 9th Jan
Different Kinds of Weather
Week 3: 16th Jan
Stormy Weather
Personal, Social
& Emotional
Development
Communicatio
n Language &
Literacy
Mathematical
Development
Week 5: 30th Jan
The Seasons
Week 6: 6th Feb
Using Weather
See weekly Speaking and Listening Activities Planning
Continuous provisions around classroom stations
Daily morning phonics
rotational activities (cycle 2)
Daily morning phonics
rotational activities (cycle 2)
Daily morning phonics
rotational activities (cycle 3)
Daily morning phonics
rotational activities (cycle 1)
Daily morning phonics
rotational activities (cycle 2)
Elmer stories
Percy Park Keeper stories
Noah’s Ark
Stories about travel
Jolly Snow
Stories about snow
Creating out word forest in
outside shed (beginning with
phase 2/3 tricky words on
leaves)
Unit 45: Patterns
After the Storm (Percy Park
Keeper)
Out and About (Shirley
Hughes)
Non-fiction Seasons books
Weather poetry
- Quentin Blake
- John Foster
- Rhymes/Songs
Unit 34: Symmetry
Unit 11: Number patterns
Unit 29: Addition and
Subtraction
Unit 23: Count repeated
groups of the same size
Colouring winter items grids
Making butterflies
Cutting snowflakes
Natural material symmetrical
collages
Collage snowmen with
patterned hats and scarves
Knowledge &
Understanding
of the World
Week 4: 23rd Jan
Snowy Days
Snowman counting game
Symmetry walk
Making shadow puppets
Making and testing boats
Weather boxes outdoors making weather boxes during
afternoon sessions
Talk about water and why we
need it – look at countries
with not enough water and
contrast with flood pictures –
discuss in circle time
Watering cans/sieves/water
wheel etc in water tray to
make own rain
ICT: making symmetrical
pictures on the computer
Tuff spot with shaving foam
for snow
Investigate ice melting – have
animals frozen into blocks of
ice in water tray to explore
Planting seeds and talking
about what factors they need
to grow
Make a seasons wheel
ICT: using 2simple create a
rainbow, thinking about the
order of the colours. Attempt
to write colour words around
picture
Making a sundial in outdoor
area
Drawing around a puddle and
watching it evaporate
Using outdoor weather boxes
Make windmills and test
Testing waterproof materials
to make an umbrella for
teddy
Creative
Development
Weather station role play
Talk about colour mixing
Making sun catches and
hangings for outdoor area
Sewing weather pictures –
suns, clouds, snowmen etc on
hessian
Rainy day brusho pictures
with onomatopoeia words on
them
White playdough to make
snowy creations
Making rain shakers and
other instruments to make a
stormy band
Tuff spot with playmobile
people and icing sugar as ski
resort
Make flags/hot air
balloons/kites
Clay work – making clay suns
Make handprint rainbow and
use cotton wool to collage a
cloud for display
Use cereal boxes to make
television weather forecast