Class R Curriculum Overview
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Long Term Planning Reception |
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Autumn 1 2020 This is Me! BASELINE ASSESSMENTS |
Autumn 2 2020 Heroes & Helpers |
Spring 1 2021 Jump into a Story |
Spring 2 2021 Out Of An Egg |
Summer 1 2021 How does your garden grow? |
Summer 2 2021 On the Farm |
HOOK |
Treasure Bags Bring in a pet |
Visitors (Police, Babies, Medical and Fire) |
Story teller Character visits |
Find an egg |
Planting Tadpoles |
Trip to the farm Animals |
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
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Introduce Zones of Regulation Treasure box – talk about homes Self-initiated learning Take turns and share Rules Getting to know you games - Treasure box/Play ‘Guess Who’ and ‘What’s my Name’Play ‘Guess Who’ and ‘What’s my Name’ make a friend a birthday cake in the sand Take turns and share Self-initiated learning Story time – Kipper’s Birthday Self-initiated learning Separating confidently from an adult in the morning Able to ask for help Use and care for materials independently Tell a friend and an adult what they are learning and explain how they did it Circle time – Looking after our environment/simplicity Working in inside and outside classrooms Coming into school positively and independently Circle time – What do you like about your friends? How can we be good friends? Working in inside and outside classrooms Circle time – Looking after our environment/simplicity Playtimes Make an invitation for a friend |
Introduce Zones of Regulation Building friendships and relationships Looking after yourself and keeping yourself safe - Asking questions about you patients health in medical role play Dialling 999 Working as a team – Medical/Police/ Firefighter/Postal role play Looking after yourself and keeping yourself safe Tell a friend and an adult what they are learning and explain how they did it Circle time – talking and sharing experiences What are you good at? What do you enjoy? How does the postal service work as a team? Performing the show Posting a letter Writing a letter about yourself Building friendships and relationships Looking after yourself and keeping yourself safe How can I be a kind friend? What can I do if I feel angry or upset?
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Settling back into class Class and routines Introduce ‘special jobs’; each week, a group of children will be given a targeted job Identify and discuss feelings of the characters in the story Talk about holiday news and listen to others Self-initiated learning Working in inside and outside classrooms Circle time – Looking after the Snowman Looking after yourself and keeping yourself safe Playtimes Take turns and sharing Building friendships and relationships Talk about relationships in the Snowman story Is Goldilocks a good or bad character? What makes a good friend? Circle time – Looking after our friends Looking after yourself and keeping yourself safe – link to Goldilocks Building friendships and relationships Is Goldilocks a good or bad character? What makes a good friend? Friendship recipes! |
Settling back into class Class and routines Introduce ‘special jobs’ (tidying) Circle time – Sharing my half term Sharing and negotiating in the role play area – dinosaur cave Self-initiated learning Working in inside and outside classrooms Sharing and negotiating in the role play area – dinosaur cave Self-initiated learning Building friendships and relationships Prayers for our prayer tree Able to ask for help Use and care for materials independently Tell a friend and an adult what they are learning and explain how they did it Move around the hall and playground safely Listen to and follow instructions Increase independence at lunch time How to be healthy – using a tissue, washing hands Healthy diet – what is this? Self-initated Keeping ourselves clean and healthy |
Can you listen to a friend talk about their holidays and then share with the class? Turn taking and listening to our friends Circle time – Looking after our friends Building friendships and relationships Friendship recipes! Circle time – Tricky situations – how is the person feeling when…(nobody to play with, been pushed by accident in a game) etc. and how can we help them to feel better? Able to ask for help Use and care for materials independently Tell a friend and an adult what they are learning and explain how they did it I can talk about my favourite activities in the classroom Plan and create a piece of learning Reflect on why they like something they have created Confidently speak during whole class INPUTS Reflect, edit and write a comment on your learning Work as a team to look after the plants/vegetables growing |
Being confident on a trip Talking about and sharing a trip Can you listen to a friend talk about their holidays and then share with the class? Turn taking and listening to our friends Circle time – Looking after our friends Building friendships and relationships Friendship recipes! Circle time – Zones – Expected Vs Unexpected behaviour Use and care for animals British Values: I can understands the importance of teamwork (making it fair and we all have a voice) Tell a friend and an adult what they are learning and explain how they did it I can talk about my favourite activities in the classroom Plan and create a piece of learning Reflect on why they like something they have created Confidently speak during whole class INPUTS Reflect, edit and write a comment on your learning
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Communication and Language
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Listening and Attention – How to be a good listener, following simple instructions Speaking – share feelings, experiences and thoughts, take turns in conversations, speak clearly in front of key groups and/or the class, tell a friend and an adult what they are learning and explain how they did it Phonics – Learn Song of Sounds (SoS) song, Phase 1, 2 and 3 letters and sounds through SoS Circle time talking Pets, how to care for your pet, what pet would you like to have, making pet homes The Great Pet Sale Harvest – What is a vegetable? Handa’s Fruit Kipper’s Birthday Birthdays, toys, parties and baking, playground games Name writing (cold write, over write, and hot write) |
Role play fire station Asking questions of a visitor Holiday news Role play hospital - Asking questions about you patients health Role play – hospital, surgery and baby clinic Outside – paramedic station Role play – police station Role play – Post office – stamps, scales, wrapping, forms The Nativity – talking and rehearsing the Christmas Story Police visit Bonfire night and Remembrance Holiday News (Recount writing and narrative vocabulary) Firefighter visit Medical visit Christmas, The Nativity, Church visit, Post office The Jolly Christmas Postman Sequencing the Nativity
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Sequencing the story Story pebbles Sequencing snowman Large paper drawing of story Puppets and masks – role play Story telling chair – they can retell Pie Corbett – oral story telling Large paper story mapping Role play – Home – Gingerbread Man masks mapping The Snowman story, ice, changing state, weather changes Goldilocks and The Three Bears – Making porridge Goldilocks and The Three Bears – fairy tales Is Goldilocks good or bad? Goldilocks visits the classroom
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Discussion about the eggs Discussion about dinosaurs What do we want to find out questions Reading, listening to and talking about fiction and non-fictions texts What do we want to find out? What do we want to find out about dinosaurs? speech bubble questions Egg hatching…what will happen? Describe a dinosaur…..what are they like The eggs hatch – how do we care for / what do we feed our dinosaurs? Find the eggs, what is in the eggs? Dinosaur facts Easter cards / Mother’s Day cards Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs Write up Top Trump Cards and share Easter Practice The Easter Story |
Holiday news Create our own garden centre Act out a day in the life of a garden centre Continue to develop our garden centre..open a healthy eating café Guess my mini beast – give clues to a friend Role play |
Pie Corbett to sequence and retell some of the story Holiday news Create our own garden centre Act out a day in the life of a garden centre Continue to develop our garden centre..open a healthy eating café Guess my mini beast – give clues to a friend |
Physical Development
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Action songs – naming parts of the body Active bodies – introduce fine motor activities, gross motor games and activities Healthy routines – toilet, eating, exercise Threading, building and making Outdoor – bikes, trikes, skipping, bats, balls etc Clapping games – can you copy and join in? Make and wrap a birthday gift |
Firework dance Gymnastics Bikes outside Ladder climbing Running along long strips of hose Dance Gym Bikes Super sports Physical exercise – the benefits of Phunky food Circuit training – fitness – how exercise affects us |
Ice dance Playdough Pencil control and cutting sheets Small making – contstruction Bikes and outdoor play snowdough Mixing the mixture Writing Playdough Bikes and outdoor play |
Playdough Mark making Construction Bikes and outdoor Junk modelling How can we move like dinosaurs? Dinosaur dance |
Holiday news – Pie Corbett Playdough Mark making Construction Bikes Junk modelling Move like a mini beast PE Tennis |
Move like a mini beast Practise racing Practise races for Sports week Athletics |
Reading
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Key texts – Handa’s Fruit, The Growing Story, Only One You, Ready Steady Mo, What I Like, The Great Pet Sale, Non-Fiction – Harvest, Andy Goldsworthy, The Christmas Story Reading – sharing books, choosing books to take home, features of books, 1:1 reading Kipper’s Birthday Handa’s Fruit The Great Pet Sale
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Read Dr Foster Non-fiction books Focus text – Dr Foster , non fiction texts Incident reports Posters – Make little safety books What does a baby need? Jolly Postman Sequencing road safety Freddie and the Falling Leaves, Where my Wellies Take Me, Dog in Boots, Leaf Man Police fiction stories Medical fiction stories The Nativity The Jolly Christmas Postman |
Phonics Poem Snowman book, Kippers snowy day, Percy Snowy Day, Winnie the Pooh Key texts – labels, mummy, daddy, baby bear, big, small, medium, hot, cold, bed, chair, bowl – can chn match words to pictures Reading traditional tales Instructions of how to make cookies/cakes etc repeating pattern, sharing other traditional tales The Snowman story Goldilocks and The Three Bears
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Non-fiction books Labels to read with dinosaur names HF words hidden around the room World book day Non-fiction dinosaur books Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs Easter story Phonics Poem Snowman book, Jack and the Beanstalk Non-fiction dinosaur texts Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs The Easter Story |
HF words around the room and outside Non fiction books and power point about growing seeds Snail House Snail Trail by Ruth Brown Minibeasts Fact books Other Eric Carle books Butterfly lifecycle Eg This Little Seed etc Jasper’s Beanstalk The Hungry Caterpillar
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Non fiction books and power point about growing seeds Other Eric Carle books Butterfly lifecycle Eg This Little Seed etc Books about farms /farm animals Snail House Snail Trail by Ruth Brown Minibeasts Fact books Books about farms /farm animals The Little Red Hen On the Farm What the Ladybird Heard
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Writing |
Writing – fine motor activities, and mark making opportunities, writing my names, labels, invitations, birthday cards, Kipper’s Birthday Handa’s Fruit The Great Pet Sale
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Thank you letter to fireman Holiday news Incident reports Making signs Making badges Clipboards Little note books Diary and desk What do firefighters do? Write prescriptions Medical records Letters Cards Police fiction stories Medical fiction stories The Nativity The Jolly Christmas Postman |
Holiday news Phonics Description – watch the Snowman movie (Assessment: cold write) Pie Corbett snowman Retelling parts of the story using pictures and adding sentences Sequencing the story Writing the story Instruction writing The Snowman story Goldilocks and The Three Bears |
Holiday news Recording fossil finds in dinosaur dig Clipboards Tracing Writing in dinosaur cave Create dinosaur labels Dinosaur fact cards Make posters for our museum Mother’s Day cards Easter cards Non-fiction fact writing Story writing Non-fiction dinosaur texts Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs The Easter Story |
Holiday news – the best day of the holiday Tell holiday news using – Pie Corbett Write some labels for the garden centre Write instructions Make plant labels/seed packets Facts about snails… Did you know…? Menus Sequence the story Lifecycle of butterfly Jasper’s Beanstalk The Hungry Caterpillar
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Tell holiday news using – Pie Corbett Write some labels for the garden centre Write instructions Make plant labels/seed packets Menus Sequence the story Lifecycle of butterfly What happened to the farmer? What jobs are there on a farm? Facts about snails The Little Red Hen On the Farm What the Ladybird Heard
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Maths |
Counting Partitioning Calculating Securing number facts Understanding shape Review half term’s work Maths Fluency: I can say the numbers to 10. I can recognise the numbers to 10. I can show on fingers or with objects the numbers to 10. I can order the numbers to 10. |
Calculating Measuring Understanding shape Securing number facts Calculation and relationships Review half term’s work Maths Fluency: I can say the days of the week. I can order the days of the week. I can say the months of the year. I can order the months in the year.
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Counting Partitioning Calculating Understanding shape Handling data Measures Securing number facts Review half term’s work Maths Fluency: I can count to 5. I can partition objects to 5 into groups I understand what addition means. I know my number bonds to 5. |
Shape knowledge Understanding shape Counting Securing number facts Partitioning Calculating Handling data Measures Review half term’s work Maths Fluency: I can recognise and say all numbers to 10. I can recognise and say all numbers to 20 I can count from a given number to 10. I can count from a given number to 20. I can say 1 more/1 less than a number given up to 20. |
Counting Partitioning Calculating Securing number facts Understanding shape Handling data Measures Calculation and relationships Review half term’s work Maths Fluency: I can count to 10. I can partition objects into 2 groups. I can add 2 objects together between 1 and 10. I know my number bonds to 10. |
Counting Partitioning Calculating Securing number facts Understanding shape Measuring Handling data Calculation and relationships Review half term’s work Maths Fluency: I can count to 20. I can count in 2s to 20. I can count to 100. I can count in 10s to 100.
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Understanding the World |
Days of the week – Days of the week, months of the year and weather All about me – treasure boxes, photographs, special things, birthday balloons Our senses – explore and investigate Keeping clean and healthy – using the toilet, washing hands, cooking, PE People and communities – families and Harvest Festival ICT – using every day ICT |
Small world rescue area Outside area-fire play hoses Rescue maps Houses and villages Equipment sorting activity Sorting a healthy plate Remembrance How to keep safe and healthy Maps – treasure hunt/delivering Maps of the world – where do people live? How far can letters go? |
Frozen and melting – vocab – features of environment Small world characters frozen Close observation Weather – what is it like? Design a snowflake on the pc – MODEL HOW TO USE PAINT Beebots Computer games Materials – can they make a chair strong enough to hold…? Map of the woods/house Animals Testing and smelling - senses |
Dinosaur dig area…fossils to find, and record Small world dinosaur s with different environments…hot, sandy, jungle What is a volcano? Re-create with vinegar and bi-carb Habitat sorting….where do they need to live? Spices, testing and smelling - senses |
SPRING –CHANGES Look at a variety of seeds Plant seeds…some in plastic bags…observe roots and shoots Observe what is happening in our garden Continue to observe seeds growing Plant other veg/potatoes?Lifecycle of butterfly Life of a snail…poor sight. Amazing teeth etc Habitats |
Plant seeds…some in plastic bags…observe roots and shoots Observe what is happening in our garden Continue to observe seeds growing Plant other veg/potatoes? What animals will you see on a farm? Giraffes or cows? What are baby animals called? Sorting fruit etc for our farm shop…what will it sell etc |
Expressive Arts and Design |
Portraits – self portraits Construction – collage, junk modelling, various construction kits Exploring colours – water, bubbles, paint, other media Role Play – home corner, vet, doctors Music Area – nursery rhymes, exploring instruments Christmas production |
Firework dance Firework pictures Giant box Fire engine – paint it red Split pin people Paintings and printings People who help us song – sing up Firework pictures on laptops Rangoli patterns make diva lamp Making poppies Healthy eating – create a plate Playdough bodies and printing junk model ambulance Songs – body |
Cold colours Snowflakes Cooking Collage Making dough Whitechalk black paper White footprints Masks Icy music – jingly instruments* Cook – make gingerbread men Design a gingerbread man cookie Porridge making Junk modelling – making houses – beds etc Painting bears |
Making dinosaur eggs Swamp Sponge painting dinosaur backgrounds Make dinosaur biscuits Skeleton pictures (art straws) Wash dinosaurs Role play lost property Mother’s Day cards Paper Mache volcano Chicks, bunnies, eggs , crosses, daffodils Cooking Collage Making dough |
Blossom painting Seed shakers Seed collage plates Construction – the tallest beanstalk Cooking –fruit salad? Butterflies Caterpillars from circles Collage Snail Snail masks Observational drawing – snail shells |
Blossom painting Seed shakers Seed collage plates Cooking –fruit salad? Butterflies Caterpillars from circles Paint some farm animals Collage sheep/ducks Matisee and the Snail Snail masks Observational drawing – snail shells Make a fruit kebab |