Super Helpers and their Transport

Communication and Language

Children will learn :

• Facts about different types of transport and learn new words such as: motor, vehicle, automobile, carriage, traffic,coach, minivan, engine, vintage, bullet trains .
• To think of characters and events to help them build and tell their own story.
• Use story language to retell the stories: To Town, The Gingerbread Man, The Three Little pigs.
• Learn new words related to the stories such as: cockerel, gingerbread man, cat, pig, horse, oven, little, old, man, woman, cow, fox, river, baked, swam, straw, twigs/sprigs, brick, huffed and puffed, blow/ blast/roar, chimney/furnace, structure, fireplace, furniture, built, materials, wooden house.
• To answer how and why questions when responding to stories and events.

Personal Social and Emotional Development

Children will learn to:

• Name parts of the body.
• Play sports day games such as hula hooping, football shot, bean bag shuttle, trampoline bounce and take turns.
• Express how they are feeling about moving to Year 1.
• Think and talk about all the things they have achieved this year.

Physical Development

Children will learn to:

• Perform twist and turn and tuck roll actions
• Write on the line and control letter size
• Follow jumping patterns and jump in combinations
• Do jumps of and from different heights
• Use a range of large P.E. equipment appropriately
• Perform tuck position on back and rock back and forth

Literacy

Key texts: 

Non-fiction books about different modes of transport, To Town, The Gingerbread Man, The Three Little pigs.

Children will learn to:

• Read and write simple sentences and stories using their phonic knowledge.
• Speak in full sentences and use book language when retelling the stories they have  learnt about.
• Read back what they have written.
• Be able to answer and ask questions about what they have read.
• Begin to read simple sentences independently
• Read and follow instructions. For example when reading and making a recipe for cakes

Mathematics

Key texts:

Bean Thirteen, Rosie's Walk, Mr Gumpy's Motor Car, Ness the Nurse.

Children will be learning to:

• Understand what double facts are
• Share objects equally into groups
• Categorize odd and even numbers
• Predict a quantity
• Build their own repeating pattern following a given structure
• Draw a journey map from a story

Understanding the World

Children will learn to:

• Talk about different types of transport
• Talk about how transport has changed over time
• Talk and label the different parts of a car
• Explain how community helpers help us, recognize and name different occupations
• Carry out a science experiment and observe and talk about the results

Expressive Arts and Design

Children will be learning to:

• Plan, design and make and evaluate a type of transport in the woodwork area
• Sing and perform in a concert

• Explore the natural world around them

• Share their creations, explaining the process they have used