'Each Peach, Pear, Plum' Janet and Allan AhlbergAn excellent text for children to discuss illustrations and characters they can 'spy' throughout the story. Vocab to introduce to your child throughout book:orchard, feather duster, cellar, mangle, field of wheat, reeds/ bulrushes, bonnet, crook, water well, ditch and brambles.
'The Dot' by Peter H ReynoldsA good text to read with your child. It demonstrates that it is okay to try doing something new, even if you are not very good at it to begin with.
We have been looking at the painting 'The Red Sun' by Joan Miro. We linked this to the book 'The Dot.' See 'supporting my child in maths at home' to see how you can explore 2D shape in readiness for KS1.
Completely independent EAD work inspired by class’ work on Miro.
Checking whether bricks are level using spirit level.
Pre-writing skills.
Positional language whilst in Forest School.
Gross motor skill development.
Fire circle safety and positional language check.
PD strengthening fingers for writing. Using tools correctly.
Communication Cafe - pouring milk.
Thinking about how we feel and naming emotion - necessary for self regulation.
Making a ‘get well’ card for Miss Polly’s dolly.
Red Nose Day.
Art work inspired by Joan Miro's 'Red Sun' and the book 'The Dot.'
Fine motor skills. Tracing anti clockwise circles in a glitter tray.
Constructing 3D shapes from other 3D shapes.
Making 'currant buns' with dough and pompoms for our nursery rhyme '5 Currant Buns.'
Problem solving in water play.
Gross motor skill development
Gross motor skill development and PSED
Painting with diluted food colouring and paintbrushes - fine motor skills - pre- writing.
Pennies and till for currant bun sale in malleable area. Mathematics, P.D and C and L.
London Bridge
Polly put the kettle on
Deciding where to site a pond for tadpoles.
Miss Polly had a dolly.
Using a screwdriver.
Lugging lumber co-operatively. P.D PSED, C and L.
Scramble net PD.
Size comparison and ordering.
Building with bricks and breezeblocks after being inspired by London Bridge nursery rhyme.
Phonics work - identifying differing sounds.
Checking on our bumble bee that had just woken up for spring.
Checking the bee has enough sugar water to drink.
Building London bridge.
Engineering check of bridge.
3D model making EAD
EAD
PD EAD
Role play C and L PSED
Mathematics PSED
PD
EAD PD
Mathematics
We made damper dough currant buns.
We rolled the dough and flattened.
We learnt‘in front of’ and ‘behind.’ We cooked outside and learnt fire safety
We used the cold charcoal from the fire to mark make.
We looked at the work of Joan Miro.
We made our own art work inspired by him.
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