Personal, Social and Emotional Communication and Language (CL) Physical Development (PD)

development (PSED) Dance- Winter Wonderland. Move like snowflakes and freeze like Look at Winter scenes and describe using a range of vocabulary- chilly, nippy, frosty, cold, freezing, serene, bleak, icicles. Imagine you are Frost and cast a spell of ice around. Our theme for this term is ‘Relationships’. We etc. will be talking about our feelings in different Move like creatures in the snow and ice.

situations. How does the cold weather make us feel? Build, winter caves for animals shelter and dens with large construction equipment and white fabric. All snowflakes are unique like we are. Discuss Re-tell stories read using puppets, small world objects. Share how we are all special and have our own stories in reading area. Make a tree by threading beads onto sparkly laces. individual qualities. Who are the special people in our lives? What happens when we sometimes Role play area- Winter Park and cafe. Make snowmen and snowflakes from white glitter play dough- link to fall out or get upset with them? How can we Percy the Park Keepers hut. Re-enact stories- The Snowy maths-different sizes., Literacy- sequences of how to build a snowman. Night, The Rescue Party, Badger, Hedgehog from Nick Make each step. make it better? Butterworth’s series of books. Literacy (L) What is a good friend? Winter Stories- The Mitten by Jan Brett- sequence events and write Spring Term: Theme... what happens. Change story events- introduce new animals. Write character descriptions.

Expressive Arts and Design (EAD) WINTER Jack Frost- think of adjectives to describe him and how he behaves. Link to Art and Music- create Jack Frost pictures and music. Create icy, cold, snowy themed music using a selection of tuned and un-tuned instruments. Snowflakes- non-fiction- how are snowflakes formed? Find out and

Understanding the World (UW) write facts. Listen to ‘Winter’ from The Four Seasons by Vivaldi, Talk about the changes in the season. Go on a Winter Hunt, take photos and observe changes around us. Write about what we have seen. ‘Walking in the Air’ by Howard Blake or ‘The Skaters’ One Snowy Night- Nick Butterworth. Talk about Percy the Parkeeper Waltz by Emile Waldteufel). Children use silvery tinsel Create a Winter scene on paint program on computer. and his job. Brainstorm ideas for role play area. streamers to move to in response to the music. http://www.abcya.com/abcya_paint.htm

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Accompany stories read by creating sound effects. Mathematics (M) Make characters from Percy the park keeper stories and create simple animation using go animate on I pad Create snowflakes using a range of media- sugar paint, Positional language- use a toy snowman and place objects in puffy paint, pastel and glitter, wax resist, printing. Provide a camera or mirror and some winter themed pictures. Encourage the front, behind, next to, on top, to the right/left of him. children to choose a picture and make a face to show how that picture makes them Junk modelling materials to make winter vehicles such feel. Money- become familiar with coins and their value. Sorting as snow mobiles, sledges and 4x4’s. Look closely at snowflakes, icicles and frost using magnifying glasses. Show the coins, coin rubbings. Pay for items e.g. mug of hot choc, children photographs of real snowflakes close up and encourage them to talk about Put blobs of watered down white paint onto dark paper marshmallows in Percy’s hut. the shapes and patterns they can see?. and then blow them with straws. Where do snowflakes come from? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2po5RhpRqU Addition and subtraction- Use of number line to count on Use paintbrushes dipped into salt water to ‘paint’ on and back. Set out sum using symbols + - and =. Use winter frosty ground. Leave a note from ‘Jack Frost’ to encourage children to investigate ice and frost. themes objects to count with. Link to Literacy story- ‘Here Comes Jack Frost’ by Kazuno Kohara.