1. Reception Class Summer Term
Expressive Arts & Design
Colour Mixing - Make bubble pictures. Sponge roller sea pictures with collaged fish over the top.
Painting & Printing - Wave patterns in variety of media. Hand printing sea creatures - overlap both hands to create octopus or crab or jellyfish. Make rainbow fish (paper plate fish). Painting pictures of our favourite parts of the aquarium.
Modelling - Papier mache blow fish and whales. Make salt dough sea creatures – cook, paint and varnish. Junk Model - Making Lighthouses. Play dough sea creatures. Making shark teeth from salt dough and putting them on string to make shark tooth necklaces. Pebble painting (fish/whales etc).
Collage - Making limpets using cones of paper and decorate. Sand pictures. Paper plate boat port holes with a under the water view. Making paper plate rock pools.
Music - Sing songs about sea creatures. Listen to the sounds shells and pebbles make. Sea music (aquarium music carnival of the animals – dance with streamers). Listen to whale music and discuss.
Role Play - Beach or Seaside / Rock Pool or Aquarium / Seaside shop or café. Boat with row row row your boat music, fish nets, blue material, buckets and spades / Seaside shop.
Communication & Language
Literacy
Talk for Writing Text: Commotion in the Ocean – Poems / Rhymes
Other possible texts: Sharing a Shell, Barry the fish with fingers, Tiddler, Rainbow Fish, The Snail and The Whale, Lighthouse Keepers lunch, Fidgety Fish, Smiley Shark, Lucy and Tom at the seaside, Whale Song, Dolphin Boy.
Creating rock pool words – describe.
Exploring and describing Shells.
Sea shore facts.
Describing different aspects of the seashore/sea creatures: sea creatures in ice.
Matching sea creatures to their names.
Drawing favourite sea creatures and creating our own sea creatures – adding labels and captions to art work.
Create questions ready for trip – aquarium.
Water words.
Write about experience at the aquarium.
Make a class non-fiction book - sharks.
Boat Trip / Message in a bottle writing.
Use non-fiction books / computer to find answers to our questions
Group Reading
Phonics – Phase 3 and Phase 4.
Understanding The World
Watch a video about rock pools and talk about the different sea life within it
Learning names of creatures that live in rock pools
Creating a rock pool in the small world area: water tray - rock pool/coloured ice cubes/harbour
Making an edible ocean with jelly / fruit / cooking fish cakes.
Looking at drift wood
Creating our own seaside scenes
Sand - beach combing / treasure / sand castles
What happens when you add water to dry sand?
How far are we from the sea?
Exploring fish – colour, shape, smell, feel – looking closely at fish – visit Fishmongers.
Making boats – floating and sinking.
Researching seals – Donna Nook photographs
Researching sharks on the computers - producing information sheets about sharks.
Computing: Junior Explorers - Children will learn to give sequences of instructions to control Bee-Bots (floor robot). Children will understand that instructions need to be given in a correct order. Art Attack - Children will experiment with different drawing apps and software across a range of devices whilst being introduced to different styles of digital art. This activity will show children how to find images using the web.
Science: Habitats - Looks closely at similarities, differences.
-Shows care and concern for living things and the environment. Keeping Healthy -Shows some understanding that good practices with regard to exercise, eating, sleeping and hygiene can contribute to good health.
RE: Values and commitments – Friendship - What is a friend? Why were Jesus’ friends special to him? Am I a good friend?
 Meaning Purpose and Truth - Important People/God - What makes someone important? Why is God important to Christians?
A selection of Old & New Testament Stories
Personal Social & Emotional Development
Speaking and listening about experiences in rock pools. Build a boat co-operative activity.
Pictures of countries with no water and have a discussion about what we use water for. What would it be like with no water?
How could we look after the sea? - Discuss pollution, litter, boats, and over fishing.
Discussions about others cultures and the differences in our lives (What would it be like to live in a lighthouse/on a boat?)
Rainbow Fish Story - sharing and accepting others.
Wish a fish activity.
Ocean and Sea Safety - Dangers of Sharks / RNLI Lifeboats.
Explain and discuss people who eat fish.
Transition to year 1
Discuss how they could help next year’s Reception class
 SEAL: Relationships / Changes
Maths
Estimating creatures in a rock pool/fish in an ocean scene. Patterns - waves/shells/footprints in the sand. How many marbles to sink the plastic boats? Number sails on boats. Counting opportunities - tentacles on an octopus/points on a starfish. Accurately counting groups of objects. Fishing for sea creatures with numbers. Sort/count sets of sea animals, by size and compare and order
Shape, space & measure - 3D Shapes - Explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them. Recognise, create and describe patterns.
Time - Use everyday language to talk about time to compare quantities and to solve problems. Position & distance - Use everyday language to talk about position and distance to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems.
Numbers – Counting & Recognition - Count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20. Addition & Subtraction - Securing numbers 1-20 Place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract two single-digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. Doubling, Halving & Sharing - In practical activities and discussion, begin to use the vocabulary involved in doubling, halving and sharing.
Physical Development
Sense of touch: sand / water / shells / shingle / seaweed / pebbles / blue rice / water beads.
Water Tray with plastic sea creatures, shells, pebbles, pots, and funnels for transferring and tipping.
Think about how the different sea creatures move.
Go to the Paddling Pool for experience to play in water.
Clothing for the beach / in the sea or water.
Safety in the sun or in the water.
Healthy eating
Parachute games to show wave motion
Respond with movement to calm/stormy music
Start and Stopping games using signals - Be a ship's mate -actions for 'scrub the decks‘ / ship ahoy/ hoist the sails / walk the plank.
Pencil control: Letter formation and letter clusters
Sports Day Race Practice.
PE FOCUS: Games