1. Trains - Topic web
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2. Topic: Trains Term: Personal, social and emotional: Physical:
Communication and Language:
Talk about different roles- ticket inspector, train driver
Work together to create trains
Journeys- talk about past and present events
Role play- train station
Arrange visit to local train station
Role play- ticket inspectors, train driver and passengers
Read variety of fiction books- trains/journeys
Look at non-fiction texts- rain
Arrange visit to local train station
Train track and town set- small world
Story sack- train ride
Have resources outside to make a large train
Blocks and planks o create tracks
Train movements
Small construction to make trains
Topic: Trains
Term:
Literacy:
Mathematics:
Understanding the World:
Expressive arts and design:
Read journey, train stories
Write train tickets
Draw maps for the train ride
Write about where they would like to go on the train
Draw and label a train
Train poems
Positional language- trains and maps
Time- o’clock and half past. What time is the train arriving?
Counting number carriages- 1s, 2s, 5s
Writing numbers on seats and tickets
Sorting and classifying trains and features
Look at a variety of trains- steam, Eurostar, tube,
Maps for the children to explore journeys
Small construction to make trains
Where does the train take you? Look and explore different locations
Role play- train station
Wheels painting/printing
Musical journeys- trains
Painting trains- look at old fashioned steam trains
Movement pictures- using chalk pastel