To Infinity and Beyond!

1. Personal, Social and Emotional Development • Embedding school expectations and routines. • Working together to complete a task. • Sharing and taking turns. • Staying safe with bonfires and fireworks. • Being independent – making choices about activities and resources. • What would you pack in your bag to take to the moon? • Communication and Language • Listening to each other and building on what they have to say. • Listening to adults and following instructions and directions. • Joining in role play – rocket launches. Acting out story of Whatever Next! • Maintains attention and concentrate during carpet time. Avoid calling out. • Asking thoughtful questions. • Physical Development • Creating space dance – taking off in our rockets, moving through the sky, walking on the moon, moving like aliens! • Stop/Go games outside - travelling, working as a team. Circle games. Using beanbags and balls to throw at a target. • Handwriting daily – tracing lines, fine motor skills. • Rotation of fine motor control activities daily Year R – Term 2 To Infinity and Beyond! • Literacy • Letters and Sounds – recap all letter sounds learned so far, reading tricky words I, go, no, the, to, and. Learning letter sounds ck, e, u, r, h, b, l, ll, f, ff, ss, j, v, x, w, y, z, qu. Blending and segmenting for reading and spelling. • Space poems and rhymes. Learning for a performance. • Sharing non-fiction texts about space, rockets, the moon. Looking at features of information books. • Stories about nocturnal animals, night time and space. Sequencing and acting out story of ‘Whatever next’. • Writing – initial sounds matching to pictures, a list – what did baby bear take to the moon? Rhyming strings. Descriptions of our own alien designs. Letters to Santa. • Mathematics • Counting on and back to 10 and beyond. • Ordering and missing numbers within 10. • Saying the number that is 1 more / 1 less than a given number. • what happens at certain times of the day? Days of the week. • Noticing quantities and differences, talking about more and less. • Beginning adding – combining sets to find a total. • Using shapes to build and create rocket pictures. Describing the shapes used. • Sharing maths games – using dice and counting. • Learn its: 1+1=2, 2+2=4. • Measuring length and weight. Comparing and putting things in order. • Understanding the World • Light and Dark week: finding sources of light. • Day and night – what are the differences. Night event at school. • Completing programs on a computer. Painting simple space pictures using 2Paint. Using Beebots to support learning. • Watching video clips – landing on the moon – why was it such an important event? • Working as a team to create junk model rockets. Making decisions about resources and tools needed. • Celebrating Christmas – what things do you do to celebrate? Is it different for different families? • Cooking weekly – sparklers, meteor rock cakes, pizza planets. • Expressive Arts and Design • Learning songs for Nativity. Performing on stage. • Role play – acting out stories. Rocket role play area. • Exploring musical instruments – sounds you might hear in space. Can we think of different ways of playing the same instrument? • Da Capo music scheme of work – simple songs and rhythms. • Building rockets using junk modelling techniques. • Creating alien pictures. • Singing songs about space. • Exploring colour and shades – going from dark to light and light to dark. • Getting ready for Christmas – making Christmas cards. Designing own wrapping paper. Christmas crafts etc.