Reception

Summer 1 – Changes

Communication and Language

  • Sharing Easter holiday news
  • Creating a fashion parade, listening to others as they present their outfits (to show how we can change)
  • Introducing chicks – caring for living things.
  • How do we ensure the chicks are safe?
  • Talking about safety on the school grounds.
  • Safety away from the school grounds
  • Spot the difference with the caterpillars at the beginning and the butterflies.

Physical Development

  • Using apparatus in the hall
  • Using big climbing equipment outside
  • Being safe at school
  • Control of balls, using cones
  • Playing games in small groups
  • Dancing like a chicken or a duck
  • Dancing like butterflies
  • Invasion games (basketball, football)

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

  • 8 personal goals
  • How can we be a good citizen at school?
  • How to be kind to our friends
  • How do we be kind to animals?
  • Are we kind to all animals? Do we treat some differently?
  • Talking about their own abilities
  • How to be thoughtful towards our friends and family.

SRE

  • To recognise different feelings
  • Who can we talk to when we have a problem?
  • How boys and girls are different
  • What adults can we trust?
  • Toilets and Privacy.

Literacy

  • Reading the Very Hungry Caterpillar, the Tiny Seed, and Egg to Chicken and Egg to Duck.
  • Newspaper reports
  • Creating a TV broadcast for our fashion show
  • Writing sentences about our holidays
  • Chick and Duck diaries
  • Chick and duck fact files
  • Decay diaries
  • Story Maps
  • Using drama to act out a story

Mathematics

  • Measuring
  • Ordering by weight
  • Counting and number recognition
  • 3D shapes
  • Time
  • Halving
  • Subtraction
  • Money problems

Understanding the world

  • Making playdough
  • E-safety
  • How to be responsible on the internet
  • Drawing caterpillars and their changes
  • Drawing chicks and their changes
  • Using IWB to paint chicks
  • Decaying fruit experiment
  • Matching baby animals to their parents
  • Life cycle of a chick and duck
  • Life cycle of a butterfly
  • Mentos experiments

Expressive arts and design

  • Blot paintingbutterflies
  • Painting chicks
  • Holiday collages
  • Making medals for what we are proud of
  • Singing fischy music songs
  • Experimenting with instruments
  • Dancing and moving like different animals

Outdoor Learning

  • Climbing equipment in playground
  • Fashion show for changes
  • Bug hunt walk
  • Making natural mobiles
  • Clipboards – writing opportunity related to holidays
  • Making homes and nests for the chicks and ducks
  • Bug hotel
  • Chick and duck swimming lessons
  • Explore weather effects as they occur / puddle painting
  • Visiting the orchard
  • Setting up a garden centre outside