Personal, Social and Emotional Development /
- Learning to share and take turns
- Following new rules and new routines
- Questioning skills and talking about home life
- Learning about the cultures and beliefs of others
- Studying similarities and differences
- Working together as a team
Understanding of the world /
- Finding out about other countries
- Baking moon cakes and sandwiches for Baby Bear's picnic
- Investigating the outdoor area and exploring in forest school
- Directing floor robots and using the new Learn Pads
- Planting daffodil bulbs
- Learning other languages > counting to 5 in French, singing songs in Welsh
Communication and language/literacy /
- Listening to adults and following instructions
- Discussing likes and dislikes with our talk partners
- Reading and writing single and double sounds during our 'Letters & Sounds' phonics sessions
- Singing songs and nursery rhymes
- Writing own full name (on rockets, stars and planets)
- Talking to the class about the ‘This is Me’ box and the class toy (Baby Bear)
- Independent reading/writing: shopping lists for Mummy Bear, labels for Bob's rockets, tags for suitcases ready for our journey to the moon
- Using the Internet for finding out about space
- ICTactivities: discussing the alien pictures they have created and giving instructions for Beebot
- STORYMAKING : 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy
Mathematics /
- Recognising numbers to 10 and above (on aliens, planets, rockets, stars and underpants)
- One more/One less > Using underpants from the story 'Aliens Love Underpants'
- Weighing & measuring (cooking/role play in Baby Bear's house and the mud kitchen)
- Positional language (using characters and props from the story 'Whatever Next')
- Counting to 10 > counting seats on the rocket, counting passengers, astronauts, stars and aliens
- Time – discussing what Baby Bear does at different times of the day
- Shape & Pattern - Creating repeating patterns on the alien's underpants, spotting shapes around the school and on Baby Bear's rocket.
Expressive Art & Design /
- Singing nursery rhymes and space-themed songs
- Story making 'Whatever Next' to perform to parents on our 'Share Day'
- Learning songs and dances for our nativity play
- Craft activities linked to our stories (rockets, junk modelling, moon buggies, collage stars, designing underpants for the aliens)
- Creative Cube and the 'Magic Table' outside, exploring sounds, water movement and small world play
- Designing costumes for our 'Space Fashion Parade'
- Role play in Baby Bear's house, the theatre and storymaking chair (outside)
Physical Development /
- Dance – movement to music during our nativity rehearsals and joining in with 'Sticky Kids' sessions
- Hall: Gym > Find different ways to travel in and around, under and over the equipment. How does your body changes during exercise?
- Finger Fun Friday: sandpaper sounds, gloop, cotton bud painting, bead threading, rice
- Outside role play – the theatre and mud kitchen. Indoor role play – Baby Bear's house and the rocket