Relationships: My Family and Me, Making Friends, Falling out, Bullying, Being the best friends we can be.

Changing Me: My Body, Respecting my body, Growing up, Fun and Fears and Celebration.

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Summer term books:

Summer 1:Jack and the beanstalk,
Billy goats gruff,
Goldilocks,
Three Little Pigs,
Jolly Postman.
Hansel and Gretel, Alternative: Goldilock and Just one bear,
The Wolf and the big bad pig.

Summer 2:

Mrs Armitage on wheels
The Hundred Decker Bus
Here We Are
The Man on the Moon, The Darkest Dark
The Night Pirates
The Pirates Next Door, Deep Sea Diary.

Phonics:
Phase 4 graphemes
Short vowels
Long vowels
Longer words
Compound words
Root words ending in: –ing, –ed /t/, –ed /id/ /ed/ –est
Phase 4 words with –es /z/ at the end
Root words ending in : -er and -est.

Tricky words:
Review previous tricky words.
New tricky words: said, so, have, like, some, come, love, do, were, here,little, says, there, when, what, one, out, today.

Writing

Sentence writing
Focusing on finger spaces.
Form lower-case and capital letters correctly.

Rhyming words.

Write sentences with understanding of beginning, middle and end.
Writing sentences using a range of tricky words that are spelt correctly.

Character descriptions.

Story writing.
Fact writing.

Continued writing opportunities and resources available within the continuous provision.

Past and Present:

Understand thepast through settings, characters and events encountered in books read in classand storytelling.

Focus in Summer 1on fairy tales: Theatre trip, fairy tale workshop, end of topic ‘Fairy TaleBall’ hosted in school.

The Natural World:
Understand some important processes andchanges in the natural world around them, including the seasons and changingstates of matter.

-         Explore the natural world around them,making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants.

-         Melting Gingerbread man experiment

-         Planting and growing cress heads

-         Building bridges and testing them –link to STEM

-         Porridge cooking – testing ingredients/amounts

-         Huff and Puff experiment and testing materials

-         A basket of food – weight experiment

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We will explore: Watercolour castles, finger puppet/stick puppet making,building houses, mask making, sweet houses/cottages, paper mache planets, tyedye t-shirts

Artists: Steven Brown, Henry Pearson, Vincent van Gogh

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Music

Children will continue to have a weekly music session with Miss Rose, where they will get the chance to play and explore a range of musical instruments.

Playing Together

Learn and remember 5 new  songs to sing alone, with a partner and in a group

Recognise and tap 4 beat  rhythms from known songs

Learn to play gradually faster and slower on percussion instruments.

Recognise known songs > played from rhythm alone>

Number and Pattern: Counting on to add, counting forwards and backwards,counting to 20, doubling, halving and sharing, odds and evens, data, wordproblems.

Shape, space and matter: Mass, volume and capacity, money

Problem solving : Solving simple problems.

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Children will have P.E with CoachLewis again this term. They will be focusing on cooperating and problemsolving. With this there will be lots of opportunities for team work and teamgames.

Within their independent choosingtime, children have free access to the outdoor area and we will continue to visitthe garden on a weekly basis this term.

Within the provision and during adult ledactivities, children will:

Continue to work on pencil grip (using the tripod grip)
Continue to work on letter formation to write recognisable lettersindependently
Continue to practise cutlery skills.
Beginning to cut more complex shapes

Plus:
Weaving, cooking, planting, junk Modelling, collaging, following maps, sports day practise!