‘Spring/NewLife’
Nursery Spring2
PrimeAreas
Personal,SocialandEmotional
Development
As a group we will develop a set of rules to
care for the chicks. We will take turns to
feed, water and clean the chicks. We will
also be introducing the ‘PANTS’ rule to the
children (NSPCC initiative).
CommunicationandLanguage
PhysicalDevelopment
We are learning to ask questions using key
vocabulary, ‘why’, ‘how’, ‘who’, ‘when’,
‘where’. What do we already know about
chicks? What would we like to learn?
We will continue with our weekly finger gym activities
to improve our fine motor skills and help us to hold a
pencil effectively. We will explore different ways of
moving and will develop control over objects by
pushing, patting, kicking, throwing and catching.
Our planning is linked to the EYFS
framework however, we believe
that the most exciting learning
follows
a
child’s
personal
interests and therefore we take
advantage of all spontaneous
learning opportunities.
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thishalftermis:
‘HealthyMe’
ChurchandCommunity
We will be learning about the importance of
Easter and will join in with the Easter service
at St Francis Church.
SpecificAreas
Literacy
Mathematics
We will enjoy stories about chicks,
both fiction and non-fiction and
will make our own information
books. The letter sounds we are
focussing on for this half term will
be – e,u,r,h.b
We will record the eggs hatching,
making pictorial representations of
the chicks. We will describe the
positions
of
chicks,
using
mathematical language. We will
continue to practise number skills,
including careful counting.
UnderstandingtheWorld
We will be taking care of 10 eggs
and will watch them hatch into
chicks. We will explore changes
and growth over time and will
learn about the life cycles.
ExpressiveArtsandDesign
We will create observational
drawings of the chicks. We will
re-enact
our
favourite
stories/rhymes. We will paint
pictures of the chicks, creating
simple representations of living
objects.
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Personal,SocialandEmotional
Development
•Keeps play going by responding to what others say
or do.
•Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating
conversations and forming good relationships with
peers and familiar adults.
•Confident to talk to other children when playing,
and will communicate freely about home and
community.
•Shows confidence in asking adults for help.
•Begins to accept the needs of others and can take
turns and share resources, sometimes with support
from others.
•Can usually tolerate delay when needs are not met
immediately, and understands wishes may not
always be met.
CommunicationandLanguage
•Focussing attention – still listen or do, but can shift
own attention.
•Is able to follow directions.
•Beginning to understand ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions.
•Responds to simple instructions.
•Beginning to use more complex sentences to link
thoughts.
•Uses talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening
and anticipate what might happen next.
•Questions why things happen and gives explanations.
Asks ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘when’.
•Uses vocabulary focussed on objects or people that
are of particular importance to them.
•Builds up vocabulary that reflects a breadth of
experiences.
Literacy
•Suggests how a story might end.
•Describes main story settings, events and principle characters.
•Recognise familiar words and signs, including first name.
•Knows information may be relayed in the form of print.
•Continues a rhyming string.
•Ascribes meaning to the marks they see in different places.
•Gives meaning to the marks they make as they draw, write or paint.
•Hears and says the initial sounds in words.
•Links sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.
ExpressiveArtsandDesign
•Imitates movement in response to music.
•Taps out simple repeated rhythms.
•Explores how colours and sounds can be changed.
•Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space.
•Sing to self and makes up simple songs.
•Developing preferences for forms of expression.
•Uses movement to express feelings.
•Builds stories around toys.
•Engages in imaginative role-play, based on first hand experiences.
•Creates simple representations of objects, events and people.
PhysicalDevelopment
•Can catch a large ball.
•Can copy some letters – letters from their name.
•Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no
longer using whole hand grasp.
•Holds pencil near point between first two fingers
and thumb and uses it with good control.
•Experiments with different ways of moving.
•Jumps off an object and lands appropriately.
•Observes the effect of exercise on their bodies.
•Understands that equipment and tools have to
be used safely.
Mathematics
•Sometimes matches numeral and quantity correctly.
•Recognises numerals 1-5 and 1-10.
•Counts out 6 objects from a larger group.
•Counts actions or objects which cannot be moved.
•Counts objects to 10 and beyond
•Selects the correct number to represent 1-5, then 1-10 objects.
•Uses positional language.
•Beginning to talk about the shapes of everyday objects – ‘round’, ‘tall’.
•Selects a particular named shape.
•Can describe a position such as ‘behind’, or ‘next to’.
•Orders two or three items by height or length.
UnderstandingtheWorld
•Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experience.
•Recognises and special times or events for family and friends.
•Notices detailed features of objects in the environment.
•Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as
the place where they live or the natural world.
•Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants/animals.
•Shows care and concern fro living things and the environment.
•Shows an interest in technological toys with knobs or pulleys or real objects
such as cameras or mobile phones.