Blast off!

1. Personal, Social, Emotional Laura’s star New years resolutions and next steps Chinese new year Welcoming aliens Rocket small world – play together Work together to build rockets Talk partners Circle time – friends Language and Communication Stories – Whatever next, Aliens love underpants, rhyme rockets, roaring rockets, Laura’s star, Non-fiction – space texts Innovate story – what does he do on the moon? Who else might he meet on the moon? Alliteration – alien names Rhyme games Obs and listening games linked to space Physical Gymnastics – travelling, different directions, different heights and different body parts Cut out stars, planets, astronauts, rockets etc Make sandwiches, rock cakes, Make space mobiles Riding space buggy trikes etc Bouncy hoppers Chopsticks Cut and cook vegetables for stir fry Creative Arts and Design Print moons Marbling purple and reds for planets Paper mache planets Moon craters Space music Painting Printing Van Gogh starry Night Role play – rocket Space dance Blast off! Understanding the World How do things move? Forces Sound investigation What is space like? Where do we live? Local area investigation and walk Chinese New Year ICT – 2 paint – make aliens, 2explore and 2beat – make space music and patterns Google earth – find school and homes espresso Mathematics Tricky teens Positional language Picnic maths – problem solving focus Making totals One more and one less Mass of moon rocks Capacity of rocket fuel Length/height of rockets Sorting 3 d shape – sphere, cylinder, cones Literacy Write lists of items to take to the moon Non-fiction book writing – space facts Instructions to launch rockets Rhyme and alliteration focus Alien character descriptions Speech bubbles Story maps – whatever next? Chinese New Year animal story Reading key words Make space dictionary