Curriculum Newsletter - Foundation and Year 1
CURRICULUM FOR THE SPRING TERM
THEME Homes and Families
Personal, Social and Emotional development
Talking about our homes and families and thinking about how
special they are to us.
Thinking about ways in which we grow and change.
Talking about how we celebrate special family events.
Thinking about the ways our words and actions affect others.
Communication, Language and Literacy
Learning to write simple sentences and to use punctuation-
full stops, exclamation marks and question marks.
Learning to use non-fiction books to find out about different
types of homes
Listening to a variety of stories and poems about homes and
families.
Talking about the main elements of stories they have listened
to.
Developing writing skills by writing labels for displays and
by making our own information books.
Mathematical development
Ordering numbers to twenty and beyond.
Counting reliably to twenty and beyond.
Reciting number names to one hundred.
Learning number bonds to ten.
Learning about the properties of 2 D and 3 D shape.
Learning to group objects into sets of a given number.
Comparing 2 then 3 or more lengths/masses.
Solving simple problems in a practical context.
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Talking about special family events.
Looking at artifacts that are significant to Christianity.
Identifying places that are special to us.
Visiting St Andrews Church and finding out about some of the
activities that take place in a church.
Knowledge and Understanding of the world
Using recycling materials to make a house for one of the three
little pigs.
Making glove puppets.
Planning and making food for a wedding party.
Observing the life cycle of a butterfly.
Finding out about how animals look after their babies.
Finding out about materials used in building our homes.
Investigating how some everyday materials change when they are
heated or cooled.
Using tape recorders and digital cameras to record our
observations.
Using the interactive whiteboard and the internet.
Observing seasonal changes in our environment.
Looking at maps of our locality.
Finding out about how homes have changed during the past
century.
Creative development
Experimenting with colour, mark making and painting
techniques.
Experimenting with materials and techniques.
Working with clay.
Observational drawing and painting.
Learning a variety of songs and rhymes.
Experimenting with percussion instruments.
Recognising and exploring how sounds can be made and changed.
Matching movement to music.
Creating sound effects for role play.
Role-play re-enacting stories and creating their own stories
about special family events.
Physical development
Recognizing the importance of keeping healthy.
Recognizing the changes that happen to their bodies when they
are active.
Gymnastics using and linking skills and actions in short
movement phases.
Games team games.
Things that you may like to do at home
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Look at photographs of special celebrations that they may have
attended as a family.
When out walking in Great Linford, talk about the different
types of homes you come across.
Collect boxes for our junk modelling.
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