Literacy  - Snail Trail - Ruth Brown

We are learning about the story ‘Snail trail’, where we have explored exciting sensory experiences linked to different environments the snail travels through.  Some of us have identified the different environments linked to the story i.e. hills, flowers, forests using symbols.  Whilst some have been using nouns and verbs in their sentences to talk about the story. We have all been doing some fantastic mark-making using different tools and materials linked to the story. Our communication focus has been expressing our likes and dislikes as well as our wants and needs. We have been using a range of communication methods to do this. During our cooking lessons we have been exploring different food items and expressing if we like or dislike them.

Literacy  - Mad About Minibeasts - Giles Andeae

Next half term we will be learning about the different minibeast poems in the book ‘Mad about Minibeasts’. We will be exploring and identifying the different minibeasts as we look at a range of poems. We will continue to develop our mark-making using minibeasts as our theme.  During communication we will have opportunities to make requests for more of items we like and communicate stop or finished for items we don’t like, to develop our core language skills.

Mathematics - We are learning about number, length and height and time.  

We have experienced a range of exciting number songs linked to our topic of minibeasts including 5 little caterpillars, 5 little butterflies and the ants go marching.  We have used physical objects to act out the number rhymes, used 1:1 correspondence with the objects and also identified numbers 1-10.  In length and height we have participated in long and short activities such as making long and short caterpillars and worms out of playdough.

Personal, Social, and Emotional Development (PSED) - 

We are learning about our special people through the book ‘The Great Big Book of Families’.  We have been looking at photographs of people in our family and identifying who lives in our house.  We will also be looking at people we know in school and identifying those who are special to us.

Understanding the world (RE) - 

We are learning about how different religions and non-religious people welcome babies home.  We have been learning about Humanist naming ceremonies.  We have decorated our own candles, taken part in a sand blending ceremony and have been exploring the tree of promise.  Next half term we will be learning about Islamic baby ceremonies and how babies are welcomed into the Muslim faith.

Understanding the World (Science) We are learning about different animals and habitats including those that live on land, in the air and in the sea. Through sensory experiences we have been exploring which animals live in which habitats. We have been identifying animals and habitats using symbols and photographs. Some of us have been using symbols to sort animals into the correct habitat. 

(Geography)  - Next half term we will be learning about which minibeasts and other animals live in our school grounds. Through fieldwork we will observe which minibeast we can find and explore their habitats. We will then be building our own minibeast hotels and seeing which minibeasts come to live in them.

Expressive Arts and Design (Drama) We are recreating different clips including the Ugly Bug Ball, Bug’s Life and Flight of the Bumblebee.  We are learning skills around performing different actions linked to the clips.  We have enjoyed making costumes to recreate these clips and then using the different areas of school to perform our actions. Our project is to create a video performance to be shown at the Delius theatre.

Expressive Arts and Design (Art) -  Next half term we will be exploring Bradford the City of Culture and the different landmarks we have in Bradford. We will then be making marks onto images of the buildings and create our own landscape of Bradford.

Physical Development (PE)  We are learning about creating movements using scarves and parachutes.  We are using different actions with our scarves to recreate the lifecycle of a butterfly.  Next half term we will be using the parachute to move in time to music and follow different actions and instructions as a class.