Half Termly Overview: 5. Mrs Wishy-Washy
Communication, language
and literacy
Books:
Fiction & non fiction
Mrs Mopple's washing line
Mrs Lather's laundry
The wind blew
A flying day
Keeping clean
Big books:
Mrs Wishy-Washy
Wishy-Washy Day
Splishy-Sploshy
Dishy Washy
The Scrubbing Machine
Barnyard Banter (poem)
Role Play:
Mrs Wishy-Washy's laundry
Splishy-Sploshy
The Wishy-Washys
Dishy Washy
(Cafe)
Small world:
Mrs Wishy-Washy puppet show
Oh lovely mud
Wishy-Washy day
Splishy-Sploshy
Grandpa's handkerchief
Problem solving, reasoning
and numeracy
Science
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
ICT
Technology
History
Geography
Properties of
Clothes/Pegs/Socks Maths Sets
CD Player
Joining and fixing
materials, (incl.
Sorting Venn diagram
Programming a robot using a range of
magnetism)
Repeating patterns - socks/pegs
(Roamer or Beebot) techniques.
Size- big/small/bigger/smaller/biggest etc Observation skills. IWB
Evaluating product.
Ordering and counting to 20 (washing line)Predicting.
Timers
Drawing conclusions. Camera
Counting in 2s (pairs)
Attach clothes to
Fair test
Counting in 10s (pegs)
Data logger
washing line.
Asking questions.
Addition/Subtraction/Multiplication/
Microphone recorders Pegs - mechanisms
Communicating
Division stories
Make a peg bag
through drawings and Computers
Animal masks
charts.
More/fewer
Talking Textease
Counting in 1s, 10s, backwards
Roamer world
Construction sets:
Drying fabrics: which Colour magic
Repeated patterns
Lasy
dreies quickest
2D/3D shapes
My World-Tessilation Problem solving
Looking at pegs Days of the week
of shapes
"Can you make a
materials/properties/ Mathsbase1 Money
washing basket to
mechanisms. (Link to Mathsbase 2 carry the clothes?
FSP:
Technology).
Starspell
Mobilo
Numbers as labels & for counting:
Testing soaps.
Clixi 3D shapes
(4) Say & use number names in order.
FSP:
(5) Recognises numerals 1 to 9
Making bubbles
(7) Finds out about &
(2/3/6) Count reliably everyday objects.
Wooden blocks
identifies the uses of
(7) Orders numbers.
Natural habitats/
everyday technology. Can you make Mrs
(8) Developing mathematical ideas/methods Grounds books:
Uses ICT to support
W-W's farm?
Calculating:
own learning.
(4) Relates addition to combing two groups. Signs of Spring
Food Technology:
Minibeasts
(5) Relates subtraction to taking away.
FSP:
FSP:
(6) Uses vocabulary of addition/subtraction. Growing potatoes
(3) Identify
(8) Builds &
(7) Finds one more or one less than a number.
similarities &
constructs with a wide
(8) Developing mathematical ideas/methods. Fourways Farm
differences when
range of objects,
Shape, space & measure:
DVDs:
exploring &
selecting appropriate
(4) Talk about, recognise & recreate simple Gauging the weather observing.
resources, tools &
patterns.
(4)
Investigate
techniques &
(5) Uses everyday words to describe position Wind & Air
materials by using all adapting own work
(6) Uses language such as 'circle' or 'bigger' Drop of the hard stuff the senses.
where necessary.
Using washing
artefacts to answer
questions
(washing board, tin
bath, posser, flat
irons)
Change.
Vocabulary.
RE
Describe weather and Special people and
its effects.
times for Christians
Keep a weather chart.
How does weather
affect drying washing?
(Link to science).
Use of non fiction
books
FSP:
(4) Investigate and
identify features of
places
(5) Ask questions
about why things
happen. Look closely
FSP:
(6) Finds out about past at similarities,
& present events in own differences & change. FSP:
life & those of family (6) Finds out about past Begins to know about
own culture & beliefs
members.
& present events in own & those of other people.
life & those of family
members.
Visit to Killerton
House & Garden
Creative Development
Music
Art
Physical Dev
PE
Music Express Observational drawingTo tell a story through
Foundation stage
of artefacts/pegs/
dance: Mrs
Reading
Listening to weather buttons
Tiggywinkle's washing
Sight vocabulary: 45 Reception HFWs
to describe the shape and size of shapes.
music:
Bubble printing
dance.
(5) Ask questions
plus continue with first 100 words from
(7) Uses language such as 'greater', 'smaller',
about why things
Vivaldi - Seasons
Colour mixing:
PE Equipment
PSHE
'heavier'
or
'lighter'
to
compare
quantities.
happen.
Look
closely
Early Reading
Singing in the rain Overlaying tissue
Skipping skills
(8)
Developing
mathematical
ideas/methods.
Circle
time
at
similarities,
Reading books
Rainforest (body
Chalk
differences & change. Class rules
Painting bubbles
Games: Ball
FSP: Language for communication:
SEAL: Relationships sounds)
Speaking & Listening
(4) Listen with enjoyment to stories, songs, rhymes, and poems, sustains attentive listening
To make sounds of
controll - rolling,
Developing listening skills.
(5) Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences.
rain in different ways.Sewing: Flowers
bouncing, throwing,
(6) Interacts with others in a variety of contexts, negotiating plans & activities & taking turns
Asking questions
FSP:
catching (continued)
(7)
Begin
to
organise,
sequence
&
clarify
thinking,
ideas,
feelings
&
events.
(4) Sings simple songs Looking at weather in
CD Books & stories
(8) Speaks clearly with confidence & control, showing awareness of listener
FSP:
from memory.
Drama
Linking sounds and letters:
Disposition & attitude (6) Recognise &
artists' paintings
Leap into Life (cont)
(4) Links sounds to letters of the alphabet.
(7) Confident to try
French Take 10
explore how sounds
Writing:
(5) Hears and says sounds in words (6) Blends sounds in words
new activites, initiate can be changed.
DPA with KS2
What do the animals say when they see the
(7) Uses phonic knowledge to read simple regular words.
new ideas & speak
Bikes, scooters etc
(8) Attempts to read more complex words, using phonic knowledge
in a familiar group.
Emotional Dev:
lovely mud?
Reading:
(5) Developing
Where is the animal hiding?
FSP:
FSP:
(4) Knows that, in English, print is read from left to right and top to bottom.
Social development: awareness of own needs,
(5) Explores colour,
PSED: (4) Dresses &
Mr Dishy Washy
(5) Shows understanding of elements of stories, eg, character, sequence of events, openings.
(4) Work as part of a
views & feelings &
shape, form & space in undresses independently
Grandpa's handkerchief
(6) Reads a range of familiar words and common words and simple sentences independently.
group or class, taking sensitive to those of
two or three dimensions.
(7) Retells narratives in correct sequence, drawing on language patterns of stories.
turns & sharing fairly. others.
Library skills:
(7) Uses imagination & (4) Moves with
(8) Shows an understanding of how information can be found in non-fiction texts
(5) Forms good
(7) Considers the
Handwriting:
Listen quietly to stories
Writing:
relationships with
consequences of words responds in a variety of confidence, imagination
Name
ways.
& in safety. Shows
Fiction & non fiction
(4) Writes own name & other words from memory
adults & peers.
& actions for self &
Numbers
(8) Expresses &
awareness of space of
Use non fiction books to (5) Holds a pencil and uses it effectively to form recognisable letters.
(6) Need to be agreed others.
self & others.
Family of r
values & codes of
(8) Understands what is communicates ideas
find out/answer questions (6) Attempts writing for a variety of purposes, using features of different forms.
using
a
range
of
Creative Dev: (7) Uses
(7) Use phonic knowledge to write simple regular words/attempt more complex ones phonetically behaviour.
right, what is wrong &
Zig zag letters
materials.
imagination in dance.
(8) Begins to form captions & simple sentences, sometimes using punctuation
FSP: Foundation Stage Profile
why.