Foundation Stage 2: Medium Term Plan 2017-2018
All About Me/Dinosaurs
Area of Learning / Development Matters / Knowledge/SkillsPERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT / Initiates conversations, attends to and takes account of what others say.
Explains own knowledge and understanding and asks appropriate questions of others.
Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other children e.g. finding a compromise.
Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants and interests and opinions.
Can describe self in positive terms and talk about abilities.
Understands that own actions affect other people, for example, becomes upset or tries to comfort another child when they realize they have upset them.
Aware of the boundaries set, and of behavioral expectations in the setting.
Beginning to be able to negotiate and solve problems without aggression, e.g. when someone has taken their toy. / LEARNING WITH OTHERS
Week 1 – WALT use each others names
Getting to know the class and teachers and friends names.
Week 2 – WALT listen to one another
Introduce Core Learning Skills and theme Learning With Others. Share I can statements. Listening to one another (Pg. 16) Develop a listening code with class.
Week 3 – WALT work together.
Organise pupils in teams and challenge them to organize themselves in a variety of teams. Children given a time limit and asked to organize themselves according to height, length of hair etc. Teams establishing class routines (Pg. 18).
Week 4 – WALT work together
Working in teams to build a tower as high as possible. Towers of strength (Pg. 20).
Week 5 – WALT work together
Split class into teams and give each team a puzzle. Every team member to contribute and adult to praise. Puzzle game (Pg. 27).
DEVELOPING INDEPENDENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY
Week 1 - I can demonstrate that I understand basic rules and routines by following them. Recap classroom rules – how can we follow these rules.
Week 2 - I can demonstrate that I understand basic rules and routines by following them. Alien visitor new to the class – what does he need to know about our class – following our classroom rules?
Week 3- I can make simple choices about what is good to eat / good for me and what is not. Sort a range of foods into healthy/not healthy and discuss why.
Week 4- I can make simple choices about what is good to eat / good for me and what is not. Using paper plates children to plan and draw a healthy meal and share why it is healthy.
Week 5- I can keep my body clean. Discuss why we need to keep clean – particularly our hands – model how to wash our hands effectively.
Week 6- I can keep my body clean. Discuss why we need to brush our teeth - using laminated pictures children to use toothbrushes to ‘clean the teeth’.
COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE
LITERACY / COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE
•Maintains attention, concentrates and sits quietly during appropriate activity.
•Two-channeled attention – can listen and do for short span.
•Responds to instructions involving a two-part sequence. Understands humour, e.g. nonsense rhymes, jokes.
•Able to follow a story without pictures or props.
•Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.
•Extends vocabulary, especially by grouping and naming, exploring the meaning and sounds of new words.
•Uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations.
•Links statements and sticks to a main theme or intention.
•Uses talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events.
• Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.
LITERACY
• Continues a rhyming string.
• Hears and says the initial sound in words.
• Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together and knows which letters represent some of them.
• Links sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.
•Begins to read words and simple sentences.
•Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.
• Enjoys an increasing range of books.
•Knows that information can be retrieved from books and computers.
•Gives meaning to marks they make as they draw, write and paint.
•Begins to break the flow of speech into words.
•Continues a rhyming string.
•Hears and says the initial sound in words.
•Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together.
•Links sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.
•Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence.
•Writes own name and other things such as labels, captions.
•Attempts to write short sentences in meaningful contexts. / Core book
· On the way home by Jill Murphy
Talk for writing
· Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Core Rhymes:
· Humpty Dumpty
· Jack and Jill
· Incy Wincy Spider
(over the week rhymes sent home to parent)
Phonics
· Begin set sounds 1 Read Write Inc
Week 1 & 2 – Settling in weeks
Week 3– m,a,s,d
Week 4 – t,i, n, p
Week 5 – g,o,c,k
Week 6 – u,b,e,f
Week 7 – j,v,y,w
Core book
· Harry and The Bucketful of Dinosaurs
Talk for writing
· We’re Going on a Dinosaur Hunt
Core Rhymes:
· Old McDonald
· Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
· Hey Diddle Diddle
(over the week rhymes sent home to parent)
Phonics
Week 1 – Recap all sounds to date
Week 2 – qu,x,ng
Week 3 – nk
Week 4 – Set Sounds 2 – ay,ee
Week 5- igh, ow
Week 6- oo
Week 7- Recap
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT / •Experiments with different ways of moving.
• Jumps off an object and lands appropriately.
•Negotiates space successfully when playing racing and chasing games with other children, adjusting speed or changing direction to avoid obstacles.
•Travels with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.
•Shows increasing control over an object in pushing, patting, throwing, catching or kicking it.
•Uses simple tools to effect changes to materials.
•Handles tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with
increasing control.
•Shows a preference for a dominant hand.
•Begins to use anticlockwise movement and retrace vertical lines.
•Begins to form recognisable letters.
•Uses a pencil and holds it effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed.
•Eats a healthy range of foodstuffs and understands need for variety in food.
•Usually dry and clean during the day.
•Shows some understanding that good practices with regard to exercise, eating, sleeping and hygiene can contribute to good health.
•Shows understanding of the need for safety when tackling new challenges, and considers and manages some risks.
•Shows understanding of how to transport and store equipment safely.
•Practices some appropriate safety measures without direct supervision. / WALT hold a balance.
What do we mean by balance? Can anyone show me a balance? Explain and introduce various forms of balancing, using both hands and feet (In pairs on a mat each).
WALT travel in different ways.
Travelling- Split children into groups. Travel by hopping to the cone and back. Repeat with other leg and develop onto using a bean bag on their head for balance. Progress onto other forms of movement- frog leaping, skipping, crawling.
WALT travel whilst balancing.
Introduce benches and talk about the safety of using benches. How many ways can we think of to travel across the bench? Ask children. Introduce different ways of travelling across a bench: walk, crawl, slide, hop, frog leap etc (in groups of 4/5 one bench per group).
WALT balance whilst travelling using the balancing beam.
Introduce balance beam and talk about the safety of using benches. Repeat above with partner if needed. Make sure there is an adult close by ready to catch any fallers!
WALT introduce log rolls and forward rolls.
Put children into pairs/3 with one mat per group. Coach to demonstrate correct and safe technique of log rolls. Taking turns, lining up at one side of the mat. Coach and teacher to assess and correct technique if necessary.
WALT introduce gym equipment and apply safety practices.
Set up a circuit consisting of a climbing frame, mats, benches, balance beams, small horse. Split children into groups of 5 and rotate between stations.
FINE MOTOR SKILLS:
· Threading (beads, pasta)
· Play dough
· Pencil grip/handwriting skills
· Peg boards
MATHEMATICS / •Recognise some numerals of personal significance.
•Recognise numerals 1 to 5.
•Counts up to three or four objects by saying one number name for each item.
•Counts actions or objects which cannot be moved.
•Counts objects to 10, and beginning to count beyond 10.
•Counts out up to six objects from a larger group.
•Selects the correct numeral to represent 1 to 5, then 1 to 10 objects.
•Counts an irregular arrangement of up to ten objects.
•Estimates how many objects they can see and checks by counting them.
•Uses the language of ‘more’ and ‘fewer’ to compare two sets of objects.
•Finds the total number of items in two groups by counting all of them.
•Says the number that is one more than a given number.
•Finds one more or one less from a group of up to five objects, then ten objects.
• In practical activities and discussion, beginning to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting.
•Records, using marks that they can interpret and explain.
•Begins to identify own mathematical problems based on own interests and fascinations.
•Beginning to use mathematical names for ‘solid’ 3D shapes and ‘flat’ 2D shapes, and mathematical terms to describe shapes.
•Selects a particular named shape.
•Can describe their relative position such as ‘behind’ or ‘next to’.
•Orders two or three items by length or height.
•Orders two items by weight or capacity.
•Uses familiar objects and common shapes to create and recreate patterns and build models.
•Uses everyday language related to time.
•Beginning to use everyday language related to money.
•Orders and sequences familiar events.
•Measures short periods of time in simple ways. / Week 1 & 2 – Settling in weeks
Week 3 – Counting accurately objects 1-10 using 1:1 correspondence.
Week 4 - Order numerals 1-10. (HA – order numbers up to 20)
Week 5 - Recognise and name 2D shapes (square, triangle, rectangle, circle, pentagon, hexagon, oval) (HA – talk about properties)
Week 6 - Begin to explore mathematical language (bigger, smaller, taller, shorter)
Week 7 – Comparing quantities more/less. Finding one more and one less
Week 1 - Count objects 1-20
Week 2 - Order numerals 1-20
Week 3 – Recap and name 2D shapes confidently and introduce 3D shapes
Week 4 – Introduce simple addition and subtraction using objects
Week 5 - Positional Language
Week 6 - Begin to explore mathematical language (heavy, light, and tallest/shortest)
Week 7 - Use objects to explore 1 more/ 1 less.
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD / •Shows interest in different occupations and ways of life.
•Knows some of the things that make them unique, and can talk about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends or family.
•Enjoys joining in with family customs and routines.
•Talks about why things happen and how things work.
•Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time.
•Shows care and concern for living things and the environment.
•Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.
•Shows skill in making toys work by pressing parts or lifting flaps to achieve effects such as sound, movements or new images.
•Knows that information can be retrieved from computers
•Completes a simple program on a computer.
•Uses ICT hardware to interact with age-appropriate computer software. / Changes linked to seasons
Weather
Family Tree
Body Parts
Eye Colour (Data Handling)
Changes over time
Multicultural differences
Take photos of each other
Different cultures/different food
Healthy snacks
Name and taste fruit and veg – harvest
Modes of transport (linked to walking/healthy eating)
Computing: Taking photographs using digital technology
Categorization: herbivore/carnivore. Flying/underwater/land
The history of Dinosaurs
Fossils/Paleontology
Dinosaur habitats
Computing: Talking tins to record sounds
Christmas Story/Advent
Walk to postbox
Mapping Santa’s journey
Christmas around the world
Father Christmas – North Pole
Making Christmas cards on the computer
EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND DESIGN / •Begins to build a repertoire of songs and dances.
•Explores the different sounds of instruments.
•Explores what happens when they mix colours.
•Experiments to create different textures.
•Understands that different media can be combined to create new effects.
•Manipulates materials to achieve a planned effect.
•Constructs with a purpose in mind, using a variety of resources.
•Uses simple tools and techniques competently and appropriately.
•Selects appropriate resources and adapts work where necessary.
•Selects tools and techniques needed to shape, assemble and join materials they are using.
•Create simple representations of events, people and objects.
• Initiates new combinations of movement and gesture in order to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences.
•Chooses particular colours to use for a purpose.
• Introduces a storyline or narrative into their play.