Spring 2
Let's Grow
Knowledge organiser
Communication and Language
Children will learn to:
- Look at and talk about the life cycles of a human, plants and animals.
- Use new words such as toddler, infant, teenager, froglet, tadpoles.
- Sequence what happens first, then and next in a life cycle.
- Role play and retell the stories using the appropriate book language.
- Engage in different activities such as writing cards and talking about how Muslims and Christians celebrate Ramadan and Easter.
- Discuss the similarities and differences between how these festivals are celebrated.
Personal Social and Emotional Development
Children will learn to:
- Talk and share with other children why exercises are so important and keep our body healthy.
- To make a difference between healthy and not so healthy food.
- All about healthy teeth.
- Bed time routines as a part of healthy me.
Physical Development
Children will learn to:
- Recognise that actions can be performed to music
- Copy, repeat and perform some basic actions to music
- Circle dancing
- Perform to the count of 8
- Remember and perform 4 actions
Literacy
Key texts: Non-fiction books about life cycles of the animals, plants, Ramadan and Easter, A Seed in Need, Jim and the Beanstalk
Children will learn to:
- Links sounds to letters
- Recognise phase 3 tricky words
- Write shopping list
- Write a sentence hearing initial, middle and end sounds in words
Mathematics
Key Texts: Ten black dots, Mr Magnolia, Pattern Bugs
Children will learn to :
- Represent, sort and order 9 and 10
- Composition of 9 and 10
- Compare numbers within 10
- Build and match with 3D objects
- Order numerals to 20
- Add more and take away
Understanding the World
Children will learn to:
- Talk about different stages of growing up (human, plant or animal) and explain their differences and similarities
- Perform lots of experiments during Science week such as growing a bean plant, worms, egg in vinegar and flower colours
Expressive Art and Design
Children will learn to:
- Develop own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them
- Use drawing to represent ideas and feelings.
- Create a concertina book or drawing.
- Explore the voice and percussion instruments
- Explore musical concepts such as pitch, dynamic and tempo.
- Improvise their own actions to a song/rhyme