Once Upon a Dream Reception Once Upon a dream.. Please encourage your child to read each day Using our imaginations What would I like to find at the top of a beanstalk? How do stories start? Looking at alternatives ways to start our stories. Ensuring children are using their manners, remembering their please and thank yous! Run, Run as fast as you can you can’t catch me I am the Gingerbread man! Making and decorating gingerbread men- looking at cooking changes. Children will write invitations to the Red Class Ball. Design your own comic strip. Seasonal changes Communication and Language Literacy Phonics, So that’s how it sounds! I can blend! Understanding the World Party Planners creating own menus, costumes and decorations. Using flip videos and ipads to explore apps to support our fairytales topics and making our own stories through animations. Reception Once Upon a dream.. Physical Development Growing, Growing, Growing Learning about plants and their parts. Growing our own sunflowers and beanstalks. Children will be working together to grow a variety of plants in our outdoor area. Continuing developing fine motor skills through peg dancing, dough, painting etc. Strictly Come dancing! We will be holding our own Royal ball! Keep it a secret as the queen will send us a personal letter. RE Maths God’s wonderful World Personal, Social and Emotional Development SEAL Good to be me,’’ understanding our feelings & those of others. Relationships Exploring and discovering how much will different containers will hold? Capacity- full, empty etc. Expressive arts and design Magic spells- adding and taking away, solving magical problems. Who’s that trip trapping OVER my bridge? Using positional language- over, under, top, bottom, next too to describe how we move. A Royal ball carriage Children will use saw and glue gun (with adult support) to create their very own carriage Superhero Design Centre! Children will be designing and making characters and superheroes. Me, an artist!! Looking at Van Gough and his sunflower painting. Creating our own versions. Getting to know the Learning to Learn characters Who’s been eating my porridge? Using the story of Goldilocks and Investigate size and ordering objects.