Summer 1: Topic – People Who Help Us

Communication and Language:

Key Text:

Oliver's Fruit Salad

Children will learn to:

• Listen to other people’s talk with interest and respond to questions in the story.
• Learn new vocabulary and use wonder words supermarket, police, firefighters, doctors and vets etc.
• Be able to talk about the things we might find in a supermarket.
• Talk about the different things Oliver seen in  Grandpa garden each morning.
• Be able to talk about the different people to help us in our community for example people who work in the supermarkets, police, fire fighters and vets etc.
• Be able to talk about different fruits to make a fruit salad.
• Express their opinions on tasting different fruit.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development:

Key Text:

Oliver's Fruit Salad

Children will learn to:

• Safely explore emotions beyond their normal range through role play in the supermarket.
• Talk about their feelings in more elaborated ways: “I’m sad because...” or “I love it when...” 
• Understand that we need different people in our community to help us and why.
• Give their opinion on which fruits they like or dislike and why.
• Play along side their friends taking turns in the supermarket being a cashier, shelf stacker or a customer.

• Be confident to speak about their ideas when playing in the supermarket.
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Physical Development:

Key text:

Charlie the Firefighter

Children will learn to:

• Walk, run, jump and climb – and start to use the stairs independently.
• Begin to use bikes and scooters independently.
• Understand why it is important to keep safe when using the bikes and scooters.
• Plant sunflower seeds in the garden using different tools.
• Begin to learn the rules of cricket and how to use a bat and ball.

Literacy:

Key Text:

Charlie the firefighter

A Day in the life of a Vet

Children will learn to:

• Enjoy sharing books about the different people who help us in our community.
• Pay attention and responds to the pictures or the words.
• Ask questions about the different people in our community who help us.
• Develop their phonological awareness, so that they can spot and suggest rhymes, recognise words with the same initial.

Mathematics:

Key Text:

Children will learn to:

• Use money in the supermarket to buy different items.
• Begin to recognise the different coins and notes we use when buying items in the supermarket.
• Be able to name 3D shapes and to talk about them.
•  Know that 3D shapes are solid shapes.
• Be able to answer questions about different 3D shapes. What shape is this? How do you know it is a cube?
• Talk about a shape e.g. it has a curve, it is round, it has 6 faces using some/lots of mathematical language.
• Understand mathematical language such as big, bigger, biggest, small smaller and smallest.

Understand the World:

Key Text:

A Day in the Life of a Vet.

Children will learn to:

• Answer key questions, what is a vet? What does a vet do to help us in our community.
• Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants.
• Show interest in different occupations and ask questions to find out more information.
• Begin to understand the need to respect and care for the natural environment and all living things.

Expressive Arts and Design:

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Children will learn to:

• Take part in simple pretend play, using an object to represent something else even though they are not similar.

• Explore colour and colour-mixing.

• Understand that by mixing two colours we can get a different colour.

• Be able to act out a familiar story (Goldilocks and the Three Bears)
• Sing and do the actions for songs like Coming Round the Mountain and Horse Neigh  in the weekly music sessions.
• Use instruments (shakers, sticks and scarves) in time with the beat.
• Use a range of materials and tools to create decorations for Eid-Ul-Fitr.