Medium Term Plan – Autumn 1st Half Term

Theme – Bears

Range of Text / Physical Development / Understanding of the World / Expressive Arts and Design / Communication and Language / Personal, Social and Emotional Development
This is the Bear /
  • Changing independently for PE.
  • Understand the importance of personal hygiene.
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  • Finding out about bears and their habitats.
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  • Music express beat & tempo – p8. Say hello.
  • Making a bear collage.
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  • Discuss our favourite parts of the story.
  • Identify rhyming words.
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  • SEAL – New Beginnings.
  • Establishing class rules and routines.

Peace at Last /
  • Play bear chase.
  • Practice fine motor control with painting.
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  • Learning facts about bears – what do bears eat? Where in the world do bears come from?
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  • Music express beat & tempo – p10. My turn your turn teddy.
  • Design a quilt for daddy bear.
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  • Re-tell the story using props.
  • Discuss what we like about the story.
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  • SEAL – New Beginnings.
  • Discuss how daddy bear is feeling in the story.

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt /
  • Act out the story, practicing different ways of travelling.
  • Using fine motor skills to create a bear picture.
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  • What types of bear are there?
  • Look at the different places that the family explore. What places have you been to?
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  • Music express beat & tempo – p12. Father Mother & Uncle Tom.
  • Looking at pictures of bears and drawing our own bear picture.
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  • Act out the story.
  • Where else could the family go in the story and what sounds might they hear?
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  • SEAL – New Beginnings.
  • Role play in the bears cave.

You and Me Little Bear /
  • Learn the actions for teddy bear, teddy bear.
  • Make up a game that little bear could play.
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  • Talking about our families.
  • Sort pictures of real and not real bears – how do we know?
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  • Music express beat & tempo – p14
  • Learn bear songs – the bear went over the mountain
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  • Talking about our families.
  • In the story little bear played lots of games – what games do you like to play?
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  • SEAL – New Beginnings.
  • How did little bear feel in the story?

Walking through the Jungle /
  • Play running through the ‘jungle’.
  • Using fine motor skills to make our stick puppets.
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  • Where do the animals mentioned in the story live? Look in the atlases to find out.
  • Compare the habitats of the animals in the story.
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  • Music express beat & tempo – p16
  • Jungle animal stick puppets.
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  • Discuss the wildlife in the books illustrations.
  • Act out the story using the puppets.
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  • SEAL - New Beginnings.
  • Feelings and emotions in different situations.

Where’s My Teddy? /
  • Plan a healthy teddy bears picnic.
  • Using fine motor skills for fine detail on our paintings.
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  • Do you have a special toy? What do you like about it?
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  • Teddy Bear song – beat & rhythm.
  • Paint a picture of your favourite toy.
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  • Talk about the main characters in the story.
  • Think of words that rhyme with bear.
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  • SEAL - New Beginnings.
  • How did Eddy feel without his teddy?

Henry Isaiah /
  • Playing parachute games.
  • Cooking pumpkin soup.
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  • Learning about old and new toys.
  • Look at similarities and differences between old toys and new toys.
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  • Music express creative development– p78. Teddy bears picnic.
  • Design a hat for Henry Isaiah’s party.
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  • Discuss the similarities and differences between old and new toys.
  • Ask family members what toys they used to play with.
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  • SEAL – New Beginnings.
  • Talk about the main characters in the story.