Summer 2: Topic – Holidays

Communication and Language:

Key Text:

Amazing Aeroplanes.

Summer.

Maisy Goes on Holiday.

Rosie’s Holiday

Children will learn to:

• Talk about a holiday or day trip they have been on.
• Talk about what the weather and the food was like on their holiday.   
• Talk about what they put into their suit case for their holiday.
• Talk about an airport and what you might find there.  
• Guess what holiday items are in a feely bag.
• Understand the seasons of the year and say what season we are in now and what season comes next.
• Use some words to describe a route of the Beebot– left, right, forward, backwards, turn, behind, in front.
• Carry out an action by listening carefully to instructions.
• Answer key questions e.g. Why do you think Maisy did not want to go on holiday?
• What did Maisy find when she got there?
• Answer key questions e.g. What did Rosie and friends travel on to get to their holiday?

Personal, Social and Emotional Development:

Key Text:

Amazing Aeroplanes.

Summer.

Maisy Goes on Holiday.

Rosie's Holiday.

The children will be learning to:

• Express preferences and decisions which story did they like the best and why.
• Play with increasing confidence on their own and with other children in the home corner.
• Show more confidence in new social situations.
• Become more outgoing with unfamiliar people, in the safe context of their setting.
• Play with friends, in the home corner sharing toys.
• Remembering rules without needing an adult to remind them.
• Talk about their feelings using words like 'happy', 'sad', 'angry'' or 'worried'.
• Understand and listen carefully to the instructions during the summer walk.

Physical Development:

Children will learn to:

• Build independently with a range of appropriate resources.  
• Explore different materials and tools. 
• Use one-handed tools and equipment, for example, making snips in paper with scissors. Show a preference for a dominant hand.
• Develop their small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently.
• Suggested tools: pencils for drawing and writing, paintbrushes, scissors, knives, forks and spoons
• Choose their own resources to carry out their own plan.
• Be able to work with others to manage large items, such as moving a long plank of wood safely, carrying large hollow blocks.
• Move in different ways safely and use different equipment.

Literacy:

Key Text:

Amazing Aerolpanes.

Summer.

Maisy Goes on Holiday.

Rosie's Holiday.

Children will learn to:

• Develop their own phonological awareness, so that they can spot and suggest rhymes, count or clap syllables in a word.
• Read individual letters by saying the sounds for them.
• Write some or all of their name.
• Write some letters in the correct formation.
• Make pictures about the season of summer and label them.
• Understand non-fiction books and how to gather different information from them. 
• To answer questions about the season of Summer for example what do people do/wear in the summertime.
• Answer key questions about the different texts, what is similar or different. 

Mathematics

Children will learn to:

• To match the correct food items to the correct number.

• Ask key questions- What number can you see? How many digits can you see? How many food items must we count?

• Understand and use positional language for example top, next to, inside, behind.

• Talk about and identify patterns around them. For example: stripes on clothes, designs on rugs and wallpaper. Using informal language like 'pointy', 'spotty', 'blobs'.
• Make a repeated pattern. For example stick, leaf, stick, leaf.
• Notice and correct an error in a repeating pattern.
• Begin to describe a sequence of events, real or fictional using words such as 'first', then..... 
• Give instructions to a Beebot to make it move in different directions.
• Use some words to describe a route of the Beebot– left, right, forward, backwards, turn, behind, in front.

Understanding the World:

Key Text:

Amazing Aeroplanes.

Summer.

Maisy Goes on Holiday.

Rosie's Holiday.

Children will learn to:

• To be able to talk about how the season of summer is different to other seasons.
• Make connections between the features of their family and other families. 
• Draw information from a simple map. 
• Understand that some places are special to members of their community.
• Recognise some similarities and differences between holidays in this country and different countries.
• Recognise some environments that are different to the one in which they live e.g. the seaside.

Expressive Arts and Design:

Key Text: Amazing Aeroplanes

Children will learn to:

• Explore different materials, using all their senses to investigate them.
• To be able to use different materials and tools to make an airplane. 
• Explore different materials freely, in order to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make. 
• Join different materials and explore colour and colour-mixing.   
• Create collaboratively sharing ideas, resources and skills.
• Move my body in different ways to music.
• Copy the movements and follow the beat of the music.