Welcome back to a new school term and Happy new year to everyone. Please find below a copy of our Curriculum overview for the Spring Term and the activities we intend to cover:
Mathematical Development
- Continue to count/estimate/recognise numbers to 10 and onto 20
- Practise using the vocabulary of position- 1stLittle Pig / 3rd character to pull up turnip
- Begin to understand that adding is increasing a set by 1,2 or 3 - add items to Red Riding Hood basket – find new total
- Rearrange sets of objects, partition in different ways and recognise that there is still the same amount.
- Compare objects by weight/size/quantity- compare sizes of Three Bears / weight of brick, wood, straw/ how much milk
for Bears porridge?
- Practise counting backwards from 5 and 10 - countdown to midnight (Cinderella)
- Sort 3d shapes, recognise cubes / spheres- compare shapes of turnip, poisonous apple, gingerbread house
- Recognise value of different coins- Giants coins (Jack & the beanstalk)
Language, Literacy & Communication
- Self portraits for spring term.
- Continue to recognise and write own name.
- Read/listen to traditional/fairy stories (also taped/CD/online) with increasing concentration
- Develop increased pencil grip, control & L-R orientation through increasingly complicated writing patterns, colourings
and tracings
- Emergent writing activities – retell favourite part of traditional story, ‘write’ pancake/porridge recipes / lists of contents
of Red Riding Hoods basket /characters pulling Enormous Turnip / names of 7 dwarves /Three Little Pigs Houses,
instructions for planting beans / finding way to wood / invites to Cinderella’s Ball / Teddy Bears Picnic /
- Home /school link – share picture books. Tell a simple story through the use of pictures.
- Dictate simple captions /retell story /describe objects and characters / sequence main events in a story / hot seating (taking on a character in a story)
- Letters and Sounds Aspect 1 Phase 1
Knowledge & Understanding of the World
- Properties / names of materials used for Bears’ chairs, Pigs’ houses, Red Riding Hood’s Cape, Giant’s Glasses, Snow
White’s mirror,
- Name/compare animals – bears, pigs, cows, goats , Enormous Turnip animals, mice, wolves
- Investigate Pushes and Pulls – try pulling up buried pumpkin, pulling /pushing Cinderella’s carriage
- Investigate changes during cooking – porridge, ginger bread men, pancakes, turnip soup, Easter nests, bread for the
Little Red Hen
- Plant Beans and watch them grow
- Compare old / new teddy bears
- Compare pictures in Traditional books to modern transport / equipment / objects– e.g old cookers, carriages with
horses,
- Follow simple routes/maps – find way to Teddy Bears’ picnic, House of Seven Dwarves, Way back to Hansel and Gretel’s house
Creative Development
ART – Traditional story character masks / collage pig houses / beanstalks / bear pictures, make glasses for Giant (Jim & the
Beanstalk), wand for Fairy Godmother,
- St Dwynwen Cards
- St Davids Day competition craft
- Easter craft
D.T –Design a chair for Baby Bear
- Design a coat to Keep Red Riding Hood dry
- Design a dress for Cinderella to wear to the ball
- Test the strongest house for the 3 Little Pigs.
MUSIC – ‘Music Express’ activities.
- Learn to sing a range of simple songs, general & theme related.
- Learn the names of some percussion instruments – how to hold and play them.
- Listen to music of different genres and cultures.
DANCE – ‘Val Saben’ dance activities.
- Respond to stories, songs, rhymes through movement
Personal & Social Development
- SEAL scheme activities – ‘Going For Gold’ (before half term)
- Introduce idea of a goal – can we make our self portrait even better?
Each child to set a target e.g share toys – display on wall – reinforce
regularly.
- Activities which involve the children saying what they are good at / self
evaluating their work and what they could do to improve.
- ‘Good To Me’ (after half term)
- Pass the box around circle with mirror inside. Explain there is something
special inside. Children take turns to look in the box.
- Pass teddy around circle and explain that he is happy and excited. What do
you think he is excited about ?
- Play guess the expression game.
- Discuss different feelings of characters in traditional stories
Welsh Language Development
-Continue ‘brawddeg yr wythnos’ (sentence of the week) on a weekly basis
-Learn a range of theme related vocabulary through stories
-Watch Welsh language DVD’s (Fflic & Fflac / Ding Dong) to enhance and
develop language and extend vocabulary
-Continue to choose ‘Helpwr heddiw’ (helper of the day), ‘Seren y dydd’ (star of
the day)on a daily basis
- Use Easy speak microphone to record our vocabulary
- Learn about St Dwynwen, the patron saint of Welsh lovers (Welsh Valentine’s
day – 25th January)
Physical Development
- Develop gross motor skills –‘Val Saben’ scheme activities - ‘Travelling’ (Gym)
Use circles to develop space awareness
Travel on different body parts – choose your favourite way to travel &
demonstrate
Use ‘tuff cam’ to record & evaluate ways of travelling – which one did you
like ?
- ‘Rolling and kicking’ (Games)
Roll ball can you stop it? Can you make your ball hit a wall?
Roll ball to a friend - can they roll it back?
Roll ball to a target
Can you make the ball move using your feet?
Make the ball move slowly/quickly
- Outdoor play – bikes/scooters, climbing frames, play fort on infant yard
- Fine motor skills – mouse control activities, cutting out practise, threading,
drawing, colourings, peg boards
We hunted for the lost teddy bears on our yard
Yum yum porridge, We gave some to our bears too.
Our Fairytale Castle means we can dress up as our favourite characters
We enjoyed acting out the story.
Porridge is better than sand !
Making bear masks was fun !
