Christ Church EYFS Medium Term Planning for Reception Term 2 Monday 31St October- Friday

ChristChurch EYFS Medium Term Planning for Reception Term 4 Monday 20th February- Friday 30th March 2012

Main focus: Food
Books:

The Giant Jam Sandwich
Oliver’s Vegetables
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Picnic
Mrs Armitage on Wheels
The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Please note we will be reading these books gradually so we would be grateful if the plots could remain a secret!
Role Play: Delicatessen and café to encourage writing, speaking and listening and maths skills though child initiated play / What would you like to learn about Food: (questions generated by children during carpet time)

What do vegetables need to live?
How do carrots and strawberries grow?
How do we cook pasta?
How do you make pizza?
How can we use ginger?
What do people eat in other countries?

/ Environment and Resources:

Food and recipe books
Role play delicatessen and cafe
Small world toys
Role play costumes e.g. chef, waiter/waitress
Outside area and kitchen garden
Cooking equipment and ingredients
Art challenges –

Can you paint the food the Hungry Caterpillar ate?
Can you draw some objects for the delicatessen shelves?
Can you study and draw a daffodil?
Can you make a plate of food using play dough?
Personal, Social andEmotional:
We will be working on the whole school value “kindness”
Learning will also focus on the following:

developing listening and attention skills
developing independence within the Reception Class environment e.g. dressing/undressing independently
working as part of a group, taking turns and sharing
Talk and listen with greater confidence
Following our Golden Rules

/ Physical:

Rhythmical awareness
Movement concepts
Body shapes
Aesthetic movement

/ Communication, Language and Literacy:

Finish Set 2 sounds and continue to revise Set 1 sounds. Work on phonics to develop children’s sound blending for reading and writing
Teach children to recognise and write lower case letters
Using capital letters to begin sentences and full stops to finish them
Using descriptive language
Writing opportunities linked to food topic e.g.

writing sandwich making instructions, writing a menu, writing labels for food in the delicatessen, writing a class Thank You letter to Arch House Delicatessen, shopping lists

Continue to learn ‘tricky words’, recognizing them by sight and using them to build sentences

Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy:

Identifying 3D shapes
Ordering numbers and objects (e.g. by size)
Form numbers correctly
Time
Symmetry
Adding and subtracting skills
Writing number sentences for addition and subtraction
Count in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s

/ Creative:

Paint still life pictures
Cooking e.g. Pancakes, Welsh Cakes, pizzas, pesto
Make sandwiches
Learn and perform a variety of food songs
Create props for our role play area
Take part in our Reception class assembly

/ Knowledge and Understanding:

Use books, computer programmes and other activities to answer questions about our food topic
Learn about food for special occasions
Continue to plan and resource kitchen garden
Using mouse and keyboard to navigate software
Learn about British food
Develop understanding of food in other cultures
Investigate how food is prepared and served

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