Nursery Medium Term Plan
Autumn2 2014
Theme: Animation and Films (and Christmas!)
PSED / C & L / PDLO’s / Learning to make friends and forming some meaningful friendships.
Learning to listen and care for others
Understanding my feelings and those of others.
Learning to demonstrate friendly behaviour.
Confident to communicate with others and in front of others, and is new situations (Christmas Performance!). / LO’s / Learning to listen and respond.
Learning to speak in longer sentences
Learning to listen and retell stories.
Understanding more complex sentences.
Learning new vocabulary and using it.
Learning to respond to questions such as why, how. / LO’s / Learning to move confidently
Learning to dress and undress ourselves independently
Learning to hold a pencil and use it to make meaningful marks
Learning to handle tools and equipment.
Learning to understand the importance of healthy food.
PA’s / · Shrek – What do I look like? What do you look like?
· Frozen – Learning about love and friendship.
· Toy Story –Friendship theme. What are our favourite toys? Talking about our feelings. / PA’s / · Retelling stories – taking in sentences and recalling. Creating our own story maps.
· Learning new accents! American accent.
· Learning and using story language.
· Designing monsters – describing them using new and known language.
· Designing and making a ‘toy story’ house – using describing words to design. / PA’s / · Lego Movie – Robot dancing
· Monsters Inc - Moving like monsters.
· Toy Story – dancing like the different toys.
· Gingerbread Christmas trees
· Monsters Inc – Monster cupcakes.
· Toy Story – Making a real Mr or Mrs Potato head!
· Frozen – Making marshmallows
· Designing and making monsters using a variety of tools (clay monsters, paper mache etc…)
· Monsters Inc – folded paper balloon ‘Mike’s’.
L / M / UTW / EAD
LO’s / Learning to look after books and look at them independently
Learning to listen and respond to a story.
Learning to retell stories and create pictures to represent them / story maps.
Learning some HFW’s (e.g. the, it, is, on). / LO’s / Learning come 2D shape names and their properties.
Learning to count out, count aloud, count 1:1 to, and past 10.
Learning to sort and match. / LO’s / Recalling past events and talking about them
Learning to use ICT and simple equipment.
Learning why things happen and how things work. / LO’s / Learning new songs
Learning new dances
Learning to use colours for a purpose
Learning to play imaginatively.
Learning to build and construct for a purpose.
PA’s / · Lego Movie – Robot phonics (Lego phonics!)
· Shrek – Looking at Fairy tales, characters.
· Stop Motion films - retelling stories.
· Illustrations
· Similes – snow looks like marshmallows etc…)
· Lego Movie – Character descriptions.
· Make our own movie / show!
· Stories within stories (e.g. Shrek: gingerbread man, puss in boots). / PA’s / · Toy story – counting soldiers / aliens etc…
· Frozen etc…picture puzzles with numerals to order to make the picture.
· Monsters Inc – designing monsters – how many eyes / legs etc…
· Using shapes to design our monsters. How can we fit the shapes together? What are the shape names? 2D and 3D shape names and properties.
· Big / small toys / monsters, Ordering by size.
· Matching and sorting monsters – same / different.
· Shapes- make a snowman.
· Estimation – how many aliens in the jar? Estimate then count. / PA’s / · Toy Story - Looking at moving and working toys. How do they work?
· Frozen – looking at winter; melting, freezing
· Creature Comforts – stop motion film with the children?
· Shrek – Learning about the animals
· Small world play – dinosaurs (Rex, Toy Story)
· Toy Story – Buzz Lightyear, space activities.
· Lego Movie - Building using Lego. What can we make?
· Small world winter scene (using coconut?) / PA’s / · Toy story – crafting Mr Potato heads
· Dressing up as dinosaurs and characters from Toy Story– role play.
· Making a BIG paper mache dinosaur
· Monsters Inc – designing and making monsters
· Frozen – Learning new songs, dancing, role play princesses, make a castle.
· Toy Story – Making rocket wings.
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Week / Theme / Book / Week / Topic / Book
1 / Toy Story / 5 / Frozen
2 / Lego Movie / 6 / Christmas
3 / Monsters Inc / 7 / Chrsitmas
4 / Shrek