Willowbrook Primary School Reception Medium Term Planning

Possible Lines of Development (PLOD) Spring 1 2015- Winter

Communication and Language / Physical Development / Personal social and emotional development
Learning Objectives / *Use talk to connect ideas
*Give explanations for why things happen
*Asking questions and giving explanations
*Able to follow a story without pictures and prompts
*Show understanding of prepositions- beside, between etc… / *Observe the effect of exercise on themselves
*Healthy living
*Pencil control
*Pencil grip
*Can copy some letters with the correct formation
*Travel with confidence around, under, over and through balancing equipment. / *Initiates conversations and takes accounts of what others say
*Take steps to resolve conflicts
*Explains own knowledge and ask appropriate questions of others.
*Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities
*Tolerate delay- focus children
Possible activities / resources / *Listening centre- stories
*Topic boards- posing questions
*Introduce the golden box
*Talking tables
*Introduce the role play / *Dance in PE
*Fine motor activities- daily dough activity in morning and interventions through the week.
*Penpals daily
*Making a lunchbox for an arctic explorer- comparing lunchboxes
*Large letters / *Talking tables
*Eye contact games
*Circle time- getting on and falling out and going for goals
*Continue Golden Box and Development of questioning skills.
*Creating an expert board- things that the children are good at- e.g. zipping up our coats display.
Literacy / Mathematics / Understanding the World / Expressive Arts and Design
Learning objectives / *Writes own name
*Continue a rhyming string
*Suggests how a story might end
*Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend together
*Knows that information can be retrieved from the computer
*Links sounds to letters
*Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence / *Recognise numbers 10/20
*One more/one less
*Count a number from a larger group
*Matches numeral and quantity correctly
*In practical activities introduce language of addition and subtraction- AA
3D shape
*Positional language
*Capacity – Percy’s flask in One Snowy Night
*ordering numbers / *Shows interest in different occupations and ways of life.
*Shows care for the environment
*Talk about why things happen and how things work
*Talk about similarities and differences between children and in the environment / *Taps out repeated rhythms
*Joins construction pieces together to build and balance
*Realises tools can be used for a purpose
*Engage in imaginative role play
*Colour mixing
*Taking a paintbrush for a walk
Possible resources /activities /
  • The Mitten
  • One Snowy Night
  • The Gruffalo’s Child
  • Betty and the Yeti
  • Winter Non-Fiction texts
*Glitter pens, chalk on black paper, shaving foam
*Phonics games
*Guided reading activities
*Story sacks
*Drawing a picture of what a Yeti is – predicting.
*Following a recipe – snowmen meringue. / *containers, different lunchboxes
*Ice capacity
*Frozen food
*Giving the explorer directions- snowman beebots
*Ice sculptures- sugar cubes / *Inuit lifestyle- houses, food and clothes
*Different animals in different places – link to Betty and the Yeti.
*Ice melting
*Materials experiments- keeping the explorer warm and dry.
*Building a shelter for the explorer – role play area.
*‘Signs of Winter’welly walk.
*Making bird feeders using seeds.
* Using a whisk to create meringue snowmen.
Looking at weather changes – Espresso. Dressing for different weathers activity. / *Colour mixing – different brush techniques to music.
*Dance – PE/creating movement to music.
*Winter songs – p60-61 Music Express.
*Role play winter wonderland building/changing following interests/turn into artic shelter.
*Hot seating/drama
*Stuck in a snowglobe marbling pictures.
*Designing and then sewing felt mittens.

from the children’s interests Observed need/ line of development