Medium Term Planning – Summer
Topic: Growth – Food, Plants, Mini Beasts, Transitions.
PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT:
Transition activities – visiting new teacher and class.
COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE:
Letters and Sounds activities.
Leaver’s assembly.
Role-Play – ‘Mary’s florist shop’ and ‘Going to school’ –
child initiated.
Butterfly Garden - learning how to handle/touch mini
beasts.
What grows under the soil and above – outdoor mud
kitchen.
Wormery – Constructing a home for the worms from
our garden.
Talking about going to school.
Discussing the changes in our Nursery insect and frog
homes.
Life cycles – how insects/frogs grow and transform,
how we grow. Observing the change in our frog tank and
See Literacy for topic stories.
butterfly garden.
Looking after our nursery plants – planting, watering,
weeding.
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT:
LITERACY:
Writing opportunities in the role-play areas.
Listen to and join in with topic related stories and
rhymes.
Building a mini beast home from leaves sticks and grass.
Digging in the soil.
Watering the plants.
Looking for mini beasts.
Talk about types of food that will make us healthy –
snack table and outdoor kitchen.
Non-fiction books about mini beasts, plants, growth and
healthy food.
Writing opportunities in role play – drawing pictures of
vegetables hidden in soil, mini beast spotting sheets,
making price tags for flowers in ‘Mary’s’ shop.
Visit to park to look for season changes.
Story Books: Mini beasts – The Hungry Caterpillar’, ‘The
Bad Tempered Ladybird’, ‘The Crunching Munching
Caterpillar’.
School – ‘Starting School’, ‘Going to school’.
Growing food – The Enormous Turnip’, The Little Red
Hen’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.
Non- fiction – ‘Fruit’, ‘Vegetables’,
Hand Prints for Leavers picture.
Use story sacks and puppets.
Self-care – Putting on own coats, washing their hands
after touching the soil.
MATHEMATICS:
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD:
Counting, sorting, shape exploration and measure
linked to topic.
Visit park – observing plants/trees by comparing
seasons
Number rhymes: ’, ‘5 Little Speckled Frogs’, ’5 Little
peas in a pea pod’, ‘One Potato, Two Potato’.
Handling and observing mini beasts.
‘Farmers market’ – colours, counting and sorting.
Differentiated number games and mathematical mark
making.
Topic jigsaw puzzles.
Butterfly garden/Wormery/Frogs – watching growth
and discussing changes in life cycles.
Water and sand play – mini beasts and play food.
Role play - dressing up, ‘Mary’s florist shop’, ‘Butterfly
wings’, ‘School teacher’ and uniform from South
Camberley.
Topic linked resources: small world/role play, money in
florist shop role play.
Taste a selection of fruits and vegetables.
Number and colour visuals.
Transition – experience new environments and people.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND DESIGN:
Response to music – Butterflies, Caterpillars, Plants growing. Create music with instruments to match movements.
Singing– songs linked to topic, ‘There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden’, Incy Wincy Spider’, ‘Ladybird
Ladybird’, ‘Little Miss Muffet’, ‘Peter Rabbit has a fly upon his nose’. ‘Mary Mary quite contrary’, ‘One Potato,
Two Potato’.
Making leavers handprint pictures.
Playdough – coloured for fruit and vegetables, making mini beast shapes.
Making Butterflies – using paint and collages. Sticking numbered spots on Ladybirds.
Making tissue paper flowers for the florist shop.
Role play: dressing up, ‘Mary’s florist shop’, ‘School teacher’, ‘Butterfly wings’
Construction – create mini beast habitat, transport linked to role play, environments linked to
school/people/shops.
HOME LEARNING: Sharing Books, Take your child to a flower shop, Look for mini beasts in your
garden/local park. Make a fruit salad at home.