Spring 1 - Toys We Love 

Key Text:

Just Like Jasper.

Kippers Toy Box

The Toy Shop.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

The Bear and the Picnic Lunch 

Teddy Bears Picnic.         

Communication and Language

The children will learn to:

• Use vocabulary focused on objects and people that are of particular importance to them. 
• Use our 'talking dens' in their learning and play with their friends. 
• Use talk and vocabulary that links to their learning experiences and the topic of toys e.g. what did Jasper buy in the toy shop? 
• Answer questions about different toys and stories linked to the topic of toys. 
• Talk about the similarities and differences with old and new toys.
• Use talk to explain how to make toy biscuits. 
• Speak to others about the feelings happy and sad and when they may feel these feelings. 
• Talk about the celebration of Chinese New Year. 

Personal Social and Emotional Development:

The children will learn to:

• Extend play by responding to what others are saying (in our role play areas - toy shop, dolls house or baby clinic).
• Demonstrate friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
• Ask friends and adults for help when needed in their play. 
• Talk about their feelings (happy and sad) and why/what makes them feel that way. 
• Wash their hands before carrying out a cooking activity.
• Explain what is their favourite toy and why.

Physical Development:

The children will learn to:

• Develop their ball skills - throwing, catching and kicking. 
• Continue to develop their riding skills using bikes and scooters. 
• Use and strengthen their fine motor muscles (moulding playdough, using tweezers).
• Hold the scissors in the correct grip and make snips in paper and around objects.
• Hold a paint brush using the correct grip to paint a picture (toys and picnic objects).
•  Start to hold a pencil/pen in a comfortable grip (pincer then tripod grip) when mark making.
• Make a model of a toy using different materials. 

Literacy:

The children will learn to:

• Show awareness of rhyming words when singing or playing games. 
• Clap the syllables in their name and other words linked to toys. 
• Begin to hear and learn some initial sounds in words and words sharing the same initial sounds.  
• Begin to orally blend sounds in words - for example c  a  t. 
• Understand print has meaning and is read from left to right and top to bottom.
• Begin to know what an author and an illustrator are. 
• Begin to be aware of how stories are structured - beginning, middle and end.
• Sequence a story (Goldilocks and the Three Bears).
• Talk about and answer questions about stories and books linked to the topic of toys (setting, characters, main events). 
• Mark make/draw pictures and talk about their marks (favourite toys, picnic items) 
• Continue to write/ mark make their name on their work. 
• Write/make a mothers day card. 

Mathematics:

The children will learn to:

• Master the names of the colours and talk about different objects that are different colours and why.
• Learn and sing new number songs (1 toy, 2 toy). 
• Start to subitise amounts up to 3 (fast recognition of how many objects there are without needing to count them). 
• Continue to recite numbers in order from 0-5 then extend to 10.
• Continue to recognise numbers 0-5 then extend to 10. 
• Show amount of fingers to match number shown 0-5 then extend to 10. 
• Continue to count objects giving 1 number name to each item (counting toys).
• Understand the last number reached when counting is the total (cardinal principle).
• use language to explain amounts - more and fewer.
• Match a number 0-5 then extend to 10 with the correct quantity of objects (toys). 
• Start to use and understand prepositions (on top, under, in front , next to ect) to explain where an object is. 
• Continue to recognise, name and describe 2D shapes using mathmatical language - sides, corners, round, curved (drawing/making 2D shape pictures). 

Understanding the World: 

The children will learn to:

• Relate and talk about own experiences with toys (role play areas, small world). 
• Explore different types of toys and how they work (winding up, pushing, pulling).
• Understand and talk about toys from the past and present.
• Talk about their baby photographs and how they look the same of different. 
• Investigate how to get trapped toys out of ice. 
• Discover, explore and talk about different types of textures and materials. 
• Understand and talk about the celebration of Chinese New Year. 

Expressive Arts and Design 

The children will learn to:

• Draw/Paint and talk about their favourite toys and items to have at a teddy bears picnic. 
• Use correct colours of objects in their paintings and begin to mix colours to make other colours. 
• Make a sock toy puppet using different materials and tools. 
• Use the resources in the role play areas - toy shop, baby clinic to develop their imaginative skills. 
• Act out the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. 
• Make Gingerbread Men. 
• Sing songs starting to change the pitch of their voice. 
• Explore how to make different sounds using the instruments.
• Begin to follow a beat using the claves. 
• Move using scarves and ribbons to different beats of music. 
• Explore movement and music related to the celebration of Chinese New Year.