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MEDIUM TERM PLANNER Nursery /Reception Topic: Celebrations Term: Autumn 2 2014

Personal, Social and Emotional Physical Development Communication and Language Development Key activities & starting Key activities & starting points: Key activities & starting points: *Adults support and value children’s talk in a variety of situations: Carpet times, independent play, large or small groups. *Range of equipment for hammering, threading, points: *Listening games: See Hear! Resources: Matching sounds to objects and photographs. pouring, constructing. Junk modelling/ collage *Introduce ‘Star of the Day’ board and award *Guessing what’s inside the presents by listening for sound clues. table, sand and water exploration, tap -tap *Joining in with key phrases from our core stories when reading or retelling them. system. boards and hammers, beads and laces. *Acting out key stories though story props and role play. *Adult modelling of how to do up zips and *Introduce ‘Tidy Up Time Stars’ award system *Answering simple ‘who/what/where/why/how’ questions from core stories. buttons. *Using language to describe presents: Big/small, spotty/stripy etc *Fine motor skills activities: finger painting, *Continual modelling by practitioners of how to *Following instructions at tidy up time. be kind towards peers and praise for children using scissors to cut wrapping paper, Christmas who demonstrate these examples. decorations, snow flakes, fireworks pictures etc. *Use a range of mark-making tools- chalks, *Encouraging the children through modelled chunky chalks, pens, pencils, paint brushes, wax phrases to ask for help/ say which fruit they crayons in both the indoor and outdoor settings. would like etc Copying patterns- painting/drawing circles or straight lines to create wrapping paper. * Role play activities set up in the classroom eg *Copying letters from their name- name cards, Birthday party props/ nativity story props, to glitter tray writing. encourage group role play games. *Cutting shapes using cutting tools and shape cutters into malleable material such as *Feelings: Role play and puppet shows exploring playdough, snow dough , Christmas cookies. different scenarios. Happy and sad feelings chart. Discussing emotions through the characters in our Core stories. MEDIUM TERM PLANNER Nursery /Reception Topic: Celebrations Term: Autumn 2 2014

Mathematics Literacy (Reading & writing) Understanding the World Expressive arts and design Key activities & starting Key activities & starting Key activities & starting Key activities & starting points: points; points; points: *Musical instruments tables inside and outside. *Writing table & Painting activities *Counting out games and activities- finding or Core stories; *RE Focus: Christmas: To know who came to visit *Learning Nativity play dance and song. fishing out requested numbers of objects from *Week 1 – My Presents Baby Jesus in the nativity story. To know the *Dancing to music at a role play birthday party. the sand or water trays. *Week 2- Fireworks: non Fiction. difference between where I was born and where Jesus was born. *Role play area set up as a birthday party and as the *Number rhymes songs: Firework number rhyme, *Week 3- Happy Birthday Blue Kangaroo *Collective Worship sessions with Reception nativity scene. cupcake number rhyme *Week 4- Dear Santa focussing on the Christmas story *Describing texture of various messy play activities. *Number lines displayed around the classroom *Weeks 5-7 The Christmas Story, The Nativity *Practising for our School Nativity Play *Describing texture of various gifts inside Sanats and outdoor areas: * Acting out the Christmas story through role play sack. *Recording scores: Eg how many goals scored in *Listening to regular story sessions with the and small world toys. *Exploring how sounds change- filling plastic bottles the outside area. core text books and other books within the *Operating cassette player for interactive story with different materials. *Counting/ sorting compare bears, small play Nursery library. tellings. Remote controlled toys *Computers-Paint program- animals- using the *Small world toys: see Knowledge and Understanding people. *Story props and picture sequences displayed to mouse to create a firework picture. activity suggestions. *Describing different presents using language of encourage re-enacting and retelling of the core *Describing their or a member of their family’s *Messy play trays: Slippery spheres, wet sand, size and shape. story books. birthday party. cornflour/ shaving cream play. Snow dough etc. *Finding the correct present by following *Role play area set up with birthday party props *Describing Diwali or fireworks night experiences. language clues relating to size and shape. to encourage retelling of core stories. *Playing birthday party music in role play area with *Matching numbers 1-10 to different groups of *Role play area set up as a stable to encourage the cd player. objects. retelling of ‘The Nativity’ through role play. *Purple Mash Programs: Dinosaur Birthday Cake, Decorating Christmas tree, *Counting sounds- claps, stomps, finger clicks. *Drawing pictures of their favourite present to *Starfall snowman activity: IWB- drawing on eyes, *Counting children in our class for register. create a class book of ‘Our Presents’ nose, mouth, buttons etc. *Shape puzzles, tap-tap shape boards, balancing *Drawing scenes from the Christmas story construction blocks. *Drawing/ painting stars for the Christmas cards *Decorating Christmas trees using various Letters and sounds: Phase1/ Aspect1&2 – shapes of different sizes. Describing their Environmental/Instrumental Sounds tree to their friends. *Develop children’s listening skills and awareness *Making shape wrapping paper of sounds in the environment. (See Communication and Language Activity Suggestions.)