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Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Can you talk about your favourite foods?
Can you talk about where things grow?
How do I care for a growing plant?
Can I share my thoughts in a group or with the
whole class?
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Physical Development
Can I join in with songs/ marches?
Can I form my numbers correctly?
Can I use tools and materials to make or depict
different plants?
Do I know what keeps me healthy?
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Literacy
Can I order the events in a non-fiction book- link
to growing?
Can I retell how plants grow?
What happens in the beginning/middle/end of the
stories I hear?
What does a sentence need?
Can I attempt to write words and simple sentences
using my knowledge of letters and sounds?
What is the same and different about stories?
Reception
Summer 1 2017
How does your garden
grow?
Vera’s Baby Sister, Two Old Potatoes and Me, The
Curious Garden
Expressive Arts and Design
Can I move to music like a growing plant?
Can I create plant pictures and objects?
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Communication and Language
Can I join in with story language when a story is
read out loud?
Can I retell a story to someone else?
Can I tell someone what stories I like?
What do the characters in the stories I know
sounds like when they are speaking?
Can I explain the life cycle of a plant?
Mathematics
How do I find 1 more/less of a number?
Can I read numbers up to 20?
Can I add by counting two sets of objects?
Can I create a number sentence?
Can I order familiar events?
Can I create a repeating pattern?
Can we look at how much we have grown?
Can I talk about the size of the plants we have
grown?
Can I order the plants from smallest to tallest?
Can I compare the weight of plants/ soil- what is
heaviest/ lightest?
Possible trips:
Pick your own
Millets Farm
Waddesdon Gardens
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Understanding the World
I use the class cameras?
we explore the best place to grow a plant?
I take a photo of a plant- challenge?
I describe how to care for a plant?
I talk about the things that plants need?