Medium Term Plans for F1 Reception Classes

Medium Term Plans for Reception classes – Cherry Tree and Ash Tree Topic: Rap, Rhyme and Rhythm Dates: Term 5 – April/May 2017

Physical Development Communication and Language PE – listening and carrying out instructions. Games to Revisiting our class rules and routines. warm up and cool down. Multi-skills with a focus on Talking about their interests, ideas and questions. throwing, catching and controlling a ball with our feet. Sharing books and guided reading – listening to and Dance linked to rhymes, music and stories. discussing. Outdoor Play – wheeled toys/bikes, etc. Retelling and making up our own stories. Trim trail, ball pool and sensory room. Individual, small group and whole class discussion. Lifting, carrying, building with large bricks, boxes, etc. Questioning and reasoning. Use of malleable material – dough, plasticine, clay. Newsround and Circle Time. Construction toys and materials. Show and tell – speaking and listening. Using a range of tools such as pens, crayons, chalks, Visit school library. charcoal, watercolour, oil pastels, pencils, scissors, Visit places in the local area. plastic needles, brushes, glue spreaders. Threading and sewing. Mathematics Outdoor mud kitchen. Counting forwards and backwards 0-10 and to 20. Counting in head and number recognition. Number rhymes and songs. Number stories. Personal, Social & Emotional Development Number games and games on the Smartboard. Settling back into school. Solving addition and subtraction problems using a Class rules and expectations. range of methods, e.g., counting in head, using blocks Sharing, turn taking and co-operative play. or other resources, using a number line. Learning about our School Values – positivity and Problem solving. perseverance. Halving and doubling of numbers. Thinking about people we know and people who are our Finding halves of shapes. idols who show positivity and perseverance. Number and shape puzzles. Circle Time. Time: days of the week, language of time and Integration with Foundation Friends (Springfield). sequencing. Money – sorting and counting. Cooking activities.

Literacy Understanding the World Listening to Nursery Rhymes and rhyming stories. Maps of the local area and the world. Writing rhyming strings. Looking at atlases, globes and Google Earth. Developing reading skills – shared and individual Visiting places in the local area. reading, including My First Reading Books. Using the junk-modelling & workshop area. Daily phonics (Jolly Phonics) including games. Finding out about the history of Witney and comparing Revising all of our phonics and tricky words so far. old and new photos. Writing in the role play and around the room and Finding out about China and Africa. garden, such as making own books, invitations, labels ICT – using computer programmes, developing mouse and lists. control and keyboard skills, using the iPads and Shared and individual writing using phonic knowledge. Beebots, research using the internet. Labelling, name writing, letter formation, simple Questioning and reasoning. sentences. Weather/Seasonal. Keeping healthy – good hygiene, healthy eating and Expressive Arts and Design exercising, drinking water. Drawing ourselves and our families. Learning about the local environment – walk round local Oil pastel portraits. area. Collaging of buildings and landmarks. Painting. Music around the world. Clay models. African pictures using different media. Dragon puppets, lanterns and Chinese writing. Ongoing – Art and craft activities and learning how to use different tools. Music – singing, instruments. Playdough and other malleable materials. Junk modelling. Imaginative play – role play, drama, dressing up, small world toys.