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Literacy

Phonics: recap of Phase 1 and 2 of Letters and sounds, teaching Phase 3. Ongoing handwriting practise and sounding out of words Our main stories: Noah’s Ark All Afloat on Noah’s Boat Who Sank the Boat?

• sequencing the story using pictures • retelling the story • interviewing characters from the

story – asking questions (what is a question?!)

• drawing a map of the story • writing lists of jobs to do on the

Ark • writing a list/register of animals • writing promises • generating rhyming poems linked to

an animal theme • tongue twisters

UnderstandingtheWorld

♦ Investigate floating and sinking ♦ Explore a variety of materials – which material would

make the best waterproof coat for Noah? ♦ Record sounds – voices, songs, rhymes, sounds in the

world around us - on hand held recorders ♦ Logging on to the computer. Using a mouse. Selecting

from a menu. Creating pictures.

Expressive Art and Design Music – Mayhem in Madagascar! -exploring rhythm and tempo using film clips as a starting point

- Singing songs such as I went to the animal fair, The Animals went in 2 by 2

Art and Design -

♦ Investigate colour mixing ♦ Explore colours via animal

camouflage ♦ Painting ♦ Look at and talk about art work

depicting the Noah’s Ark story ♦ Collage – Noah’s Ark scenes

Mathematical Development

• Begin to count beyond 20 forwards and backwards • Begin to count aloud in 2’s • Count repeated groups of the same size e.g. count lots of

pairs of animals going into the ark • Say the number that is one more and one less than a given

number • Count, count, count! – count objects by moving them, count

actions and objects that you can see but can’t move/touch, estimate first then count

• Use appropriate language to talk about simple addition and subtraction and create numbers stories involving animals such as 6 lions were drinking at the watering hole and 2 went off to hunt lunch, how many were left?

• Use the vocabulary of size – taller/tallest/shorter/shortest/longer/longest

PHSEFeelings – what feelings do we have? How do we feel when…? How we cope with them? What can we do? How can we help each other?

R.E Christianity: Noah’s Ark What was God’s promise to Noah?

I n t h e G a l l e r y

N o a h ’ s A r k Willow Class Spring 1 2016

Physical Development

Dance – Carnival of the Animals Gymnastics – rolling, sliding, balancing Begin to understand what happens to our bodies after physical exercise