Personal, Social and Emotional Development:
Physical Development:
Communication and Language:
• Focus on friendship – getting on and falling out.
Resolving conflicts kindly.
• Taking more responsibility – special helper jobs.
• Remembrance Day.
• What special things would you take with you on a
journey to the moon and why? Who would you
take with you?
• Being positive about own abilities – feeling proud
of our achievements.
• Strategies for sharing and taking turns.
• Fine motor control – developing pencil control
and coordination. Tracing patterns and following
vertical and horizontal lines. Writing our names
and using cursive letter formation.
• Playing games as part of a team.
• Developing hand-eye coordination and using a
range of equipment – balls, quoits, hoops etc.
• Exploring apparatus in Gymnastics – climbing
safely to a height. Jumping and landing safely from
a piece of apparatus.
• Balancing skills.
• Establishing ‘knee buddies’ and discussing our
ideas and learning with them.
• Sharing an idea within a whole class and a small
group.
• Story telling – Whatever Next! Learning a story
and retelling with actions.
• Listening to each other and building on what
others have to say.
• Maintaining attention and concentration during
carpet time.
• Listening to adults and following instructions.
To infinity and beyond!
Mathematics:
Literacy:
• Letters and sounds – Continuing to
learning the letter sounds. What sound
do the letters make? How do we form
the letters?
• Segmenting and blending simple
words – using for reading and writing.
• Beginning to recognise some tricky
words – I, go, no, the, to.
• Space poems and rhymes –
continuing a rhyming string.
• Features of non-fiction texts –
reading information books about Space
and the Moon.
• Sharing story of Whatever Next!
Ordering events of the story.
• Reading simple stories and phonics
texts.
• Writing – missing sounds in words,
simple captions, a list of things baby
bear took to the moon, a postcard
home from Space, letters to Santa.
Year R
Understanding the World:
Expressive Arts and Design:
• Take 1 Picture Week – exploring a
painting and asking thoughtful
questions about it.
• Using ICT – creating pictures,
completing programs, using
programmable toys.
• Cooking – pizza planets, peppermint
moons and stars, moon rocks, mince
pies and Christmas treats.
• Finding out about Space and being an
astronaut. What is it like in space? How
do astronauts eat, sleep, drink? What
is it like to walk on the moon? What
does it look like to travel through
space? Watching video clips and
sharing information texts.
• Exploring light and dark.
• How do we celebrate Christmas? RE
Week.
• Learning songs for Nativity play.
• Role play – space station and rocket.
• Playing with small world toys to make
up own narratives.
• Acting out story of Whatever Next!
• Take 1 Picture week – representing
the painting through senses –adding
sounds clips, creating still images,
using materials to recreate.
• Building rockets – using junk
modelling and materials, deciding what
to use and how to join them.
• Exploring different instruments – can
we play one instrument in different
ways to make a new sound? Creating
space sounds.
• Designing and creating own alien
pictures.
• Da Capo music scheme of work.
• Exploring night and day – ordering
events during the day. Using the
vocabulary of time.
• Learning some number facts by heart
– 1+1=2, 2+2=4. Counting in 10s.
Counting forwards and backwards.
• Filling in missing numbers.
• Counting out sets of objects. Finding
one more and one less.
• Using the vocabulary of addition –
combining two sets to find a total.
• Exploring shapes – 2D and 3D to build
rockets. Identifying shapes and
describing.
• Christmas maths – repeating patterns
to design own wrapping paper.
• Exploring measures – length and
weight. Ordering Christmas presents
by weight and length. Using nonstandard units to measure.
• Writing numbers and formation.
Term 2