1. Spring 2 Jungle Explorers
Personal Social Emotional Development
Communication and Language
Rushton Primary Early Years
Topic Web
Objectives
Use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events.
Follow instructions
Answer how and why questions about their experiences or in response to stories or events.
Develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.
Express themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners needs.
Activities
Answer how and why questions about the jungle and animals
Circle times- talking about our favourite animals and why.
Making up stories around animals and topic.
Trip to the zoo.
Talking about trip after- what happened, what did we see etc?
Listening to stories and facts about animals.
Objectives
Children play co-operatively taking turns with each other.
Take account of one another’s ideas about how to organise their activity.
Confidently speak in a group about their ideas and chose resources they need for chosen activities.
Adjust their behaviour to different social situations and take changes of routine in their stride.
Activities
Turn taking games based on topic e.g. jungle snap.
Provision based activities allowing children to organise and work as a team- jungle assault course
Present work they have created to their friends.
School trip to the zoo.
Team work activities- Forest Schools, outdoor activities.
Physical Development
Objectives
Activities
Letter and number formation weekly activity to support writing
Soccer Lions
PE- obstacle course/move like jungle animals
Healthy diet discussions during snack times
Using clay and tools to create jungle animals
Activities to support using tools- forest school, play dough. cutting.
Expressive Art and Design
Use a pencil and hold it effectively to form recognisable letters
Handle tools and equipment safely
Move confidently in a range of ways
Know importance of good health and physical exercise and a healthy diet and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe
Show understanding for the need for safety when tackling new challenges and manage risks.
Spring 2
Jungle Explorers
Objectives
Sing songs, make music and dance.
Explore the different sounds of instruments.
Children use what they have learned about media and materials in different ways thinking about uses and purposes.
Represent their own ideas through music, dance, art, role play and design and technology.
Activities
Role play- Jungle explorers
Jungle themed art- painting animals or scenery- link to Henri Rousseau
Clay modelling jungle animals.
Go to the jungle- what can we see/hear/smell/feel?
Paper plate animal masks.
Lear jungle themed songs and add instruments/dances to songs.
Objectives
Maths
Activities
Activities
Number formation weekly
Counting activities with jungle animals/objects- adding/taking away/doubling/halving/sharing.
Sharing food between animals
Animals went in 2 by 2- counting in 2’s.
What time is it Mr Wolf- o’clock activities
3D shape activities- properties
Weighing out drinks for different animals (capacity)
Sorting by size/weight.
Measure how far animals travel- distance.
Understanding of the World
Literacy
Count reliably with numbers to 20 placing them in order and say which number is one more/less,
Solve problems including doubling, halving and sharing.
Add and subtract with two single digit numbers.
Use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money.
Explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
Show interest in shapes in environment.
Objectives
Talk about past and present in own lives and the lives of family members.
Know similarities and differences between themselves and others and among families, traditions and communities.
Make observations of animals and plants and explain why things occur and talk about changes.
Select and use technology for particular purposes.
Show care and concern for living things.
Know that the environment and living things are influenced by human activity.
Activities
RE- Understanding Christianity.
Easter activities
Celebrate St David’s Day in school teams
Find out about jungle animals looking at differences, similarities and patterns.
Use computers to find out about jungle animals
Find out information about animals and take an interest when visiting the zoo including endangered animals.
Forest school activities.
Make animal habitats.
Objectives
Activities
Formation weekly
Phonics phase 1,2,4
Story maps jungle themed and adding dialogue
News reports on trip to the Zoo
Non-fiction reading about animals/jungle
Stories linked with topic- Rumble in the Jungle/Giraffes can’t dance
Make animal fact file
List of what I would take to the jungle
Writing what would I hear/see/smell in the jungle.
Giving meaning to marks made on paper
Attempt to write sentences/write simple sentences that can be read by themselves and others
Write words in ways which match their spoken sounds
Write some common irregular words
Begin to read words and sentences
Begin to understand the ways stories are structured.
Know information can be retrieved from books and computers.