Language, Literacy & Communication Farm stories (learn, retell and re-write Pie Corbett style)

1. Mathematical Development • Number – making comparisons / sorting different farmyard animals / fruit & veg according to their size, shape, colour etc. • Use money in role play area • Weighing different items • Discuss shapes seen on the farm e.g. circular wheels, rectangular chimneys. Make a shape farm picture. • Draw a map of the farm and give directions. • Create a graph/table of favourite farm animals. • Measuring farm animals using blocks and other objects. • Using different types of seeds and beans to ‘plant a pattern’ • Creative Development • Scarecrow craft-make scarecrows • Animal masks and puppets • Make a tractor from collage materials • Printing with vegetables grown on the farm • Decorate eggs • Make tractor from boxes, tubes and cardboard wheels • Sing farm / animal songs • Choose percussion instruments to represent different farm animals • Cooking farm produce • Creating ‘muddy’ paint tracks with toy tractors • Making paper mache fruit and veg for role play area. • Physical Development • Gross motor skills - Moving like different farm animals • Acting out different farming jobs • Fine motor skills – moulding farm animals • ‘Shearing sheep’ scraping foam from balloons • scissor skills • Play games using bean bags • Chalk lines outside – balance • Parachute games using farm animal characters 2014-2015 • Language, Literacy & Communication • Farm stories (learn, retell and re-write Pie Corbett style) • Retell stories using puppets • Instructional texts – how to look after an animal / wash hands properly • Labelling animal / tractor parts • Role play – farm shop – write lists for shop, signs etc • Make a non-fiction fact file book about farm animals • Lists – jobs that a farmer has to do • Alliteration – soft, smelly sheep etc • Farmer’s diary – sequencing activities Reception Autumn Term Reception-The Farm Trip– Swansea Community Farm • ICT • Use drag and drop to match or label animals/ fruit and vegetables • Textease: creating farm pictures • 2create-making their own stories using splosh images and simple words • Welsh Language Development • Counting and number vocabulary. Sawl? • Colour vocabulary • TediTwt: Y Tywydd, Ar y Fferm • Introduce farm animal vocab and weather • Pwywytti? ______ ydwi. • Gai ... • Incidental Welsh • RE • Harvest • The lost sheep • Noah’s Ark • Knowledge & Understanding of the World • What is it like on a farm? Identify animals that live on the farm • group animals and plants according to similarities and differences • Life cycles – chicks and ducks , • Farm animals and their young • Labelling parts of animals • Using magnifying glasses to look at objects closely • What farmyard animals produce milk, eggs etc. • Investigate materials – Three Little Pigs • Animal habitats • PSE (PSD, WB+CD) • class rules, Why we have rules. Consequences of our actions. • Looking after animals in the environment. • Harvest • Circle time • Personal hygiene – washing hands and brushing teeth