Please note that in early years, many topics originate from the child’s interest and needs. Therefore, we must have room for flexibility and adaptability. This approach allows us to tailor our educational activities to better engage the children, fostering a more effective and responsive learning environment.
Topics
- Wild Animals continuation from the previous term
- Spring
- World Book Day
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar/Life Cycle of a butterfly
Communication & Language
- How do trees change now that it is spring? Is the weather different now that it is spring? The season of spring follows winter
- Spring is a season associated with new life
- What have we learned about jungle animals?
Literacy
- Introducing new digraphs
- Blending sounds into words and segmenting
- Learning new tricky words
- Look at the letters in the word “caterpillar” and try rearranging them to spell other words (e.g., “pet” and “rat”)
- Challenge the children to find other hidden words
Mathematics
- Deep Number Sense (6, 7, 8)
- Formation (6, 7, 8)
- Match verbal number names to numerals and quantities
- Deep Number Sense (9 and 10)
- Encourage children to count to 10 using objects in different arrangements, touching each object as they count
- Recognise that the final number they say is the quantity in the set
- Counting to 20
Physical Development
- Inspired by the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar, children will engage in fun, hands-on activities
- They will practice threading beads to create their own caterpillars, cutting out colourful fruits to replicate the ones the caterpillar eats, and using playdough to model the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Work as a team to make cocoons around a child using toilet tissue
- Discuss the changes that happen before and after a caterpillar makes a cocoon
- Talk to the children about caring for minibeasts and wildlife
Understanding the World
- Understand important processes and changes in the natural world, including the seasons and changing states of matter
- Learn about the life cycle of a butterfly – Science for kids
- Discover interesting facts about jungle animals
- Participate in planting in our garden
Expressive, Arts and Design
- Understand important processes and changes in the natural world, including the seasons and changing states of matter
- Learn about the life cycle of a butterfly – Science for kids
- Discover interesting facts about jungle animals.
- Participate in planting in our garden