Parents' Curriculum Map - Summer Term 2010

 

 

 

Dear Parents,
 
Welcome to our Summer term curriculum map! 
This is to inform you of what your child will be learning this term.
In the first half term we will be following a ‘water and mini-beasts’ theme with mermaids and pirates, sea life, pond life and finding out about floating and sinking.
After half term our theme will be ’growing’ . We will be planting and looking at lifecycles. 
 
Special Events this Term
Friday 7th May— Class assembly
Visit to Moor Farm( to be arranged)
Wednesday April 28th - Nurse health checks
Friday April 30th—’Save the Frogs’ day
Friday June 18th—Dads and Grandads invited in for Fathers’ Day
 
Equipment Needed in Reception
 
PE kit (To be brought in on Monday and taken home Friday)
Learning Curve Book (Mondays to go home on Wednesdays)
Show and Tell items on a Monday.
Reading Book and Reading Record
Junk modelling (we will need lots of kitchen rolls)
 
Please note that the following items should be left at home:
Toys
Cuddlies
Pencil Cases.
 
 
 

Summer Term Planning Web
 
Summer 1
Summer 2
Creative Learning
Journey
Water and mini-beasts
 
 
 
The children will hear the story of Noah’s Ark.
The children will find out about lifecycles of frogs and butterflies and bring to life the story ‘The Very Hungry caterpillar’.
In the water tray the children will be supported in investigating floating and sinking.
We will be looking at the different features of mini-beasts.
Growing
 
 
 
 
 
We will go to our local farm and learn about animals, growing and life on the farm.
We will make our own vegetable soup
The children will be able to dig up the garden area and plant and grow their own seeds.
Literacy
Lots of our reading and writing activities will be based around mermaid and pirate adventures, we will make our own pirate ship in the classroom to act out stories.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Writing letters after reading ‘Dear Mermaid’
Wanted posters to find Pirate Pete.
Poetry—The fish who could wish.
We will use non-fiction books and the internet to find out about frogs and insects.
We will make recipes for stone soup and turnip soup.
 
The role play outside will become Percy the Park keepers hut.
 
We will read a selection of Percy the Park keeper stories at story time.
 
The children will look at how instructions are written and make their own instructions of how to grow a plant.
Numeracy
Throughout the term , the children will continue with recognising, ordering and counting with numbers up to 20.
 
 
The children will build a range of strategies to add and subtract and practice mental recall of counting in ones, twos, fives and tens as well as number bonds.
We will use mathematical language to describe 2D and 3D shapes.