| Session | Class Ideas | Ideas for home |
| Phonics, Listening and Music | Our focus in these sessions will be a mix of listening and attending to environmental sounds, as well as some children will begin to start exploring Phase 2 Twinkl phonics sounds. Some of the pupil’s engagement in these sessions will be shown through anticipation of what is going to happen, joining in or moving towards particular sounds or resources.
We will also be focusing on exploring musical instruments, how they work and what sounds they make. We will also be looking at animals and what noises they make as well as using our voices and other objects to recreate the different animal noises.
| When at home or out and about, encourage good listening of things around – for example sounds of everyday things at home indoors or while out on walks. You can also talk about the sounds animals make either on the TV or when out and about, can you hear the dog bark or the cat purr.
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| Stories and Books | We will be focusing on sharing stories which use food as a theme, such as:
Rumble in the jungle, farm sensory story, commotion in the ocean, bad tempered ladybird and dear zoo.
We will be thinking about what’s going to happen next in the story. We will also be looking at and exploring the different resources that are used to help tell the story.
| Share stories at home. These can be related to animals or a story that your child enjoys. They can be in book, audio or video form. CBeebies Bedtime Stories are available on the CBeebies channel, iPlayer and You Tube. This encourages a growth of vocabulary as well as having fun through sounds and rhyme. |
| Problem Solving and Exploration | We will be developing exploration and manipulation skills through exploring different animals through the textures of the animals themselves and their habitats and where they live.
We will also look at counting different animals as well as matching different animals, their young and their habitats. We will also look at counting the different number of legs that each animals have.
| At home you could explore different animals and where they live. When out in the community listen carefully what noises can you hear- can you hear birds tweeting, bushes rustling, also look carefully what animals can you see, look up and see birds go and look under logs and rocks what small bugs can you find? |
| Understanding the World | The half term we will be focusing on exploring the different habitats that the animals live in this will be done using a variety of sensory trays filled with different objects from mud and sand to ice and water. We will explore where the animals live, what they look like and think about some of the different parts of the animals. We will also look at different skin or fur patterns and matching them to the correct animal as well as matching the animals to their babies. | You could explore different habitats at home in the garden or while out on a walk. You can explore what the different animals look like and what makes them different. |
| Creative | Our creative sessions will be led through our topic of a carnival of animals, these sessions will include exploring different mark makings and printing to make different animal print patterns. Using paper mache and other mediums to make different animals such as fish or octopuses. Finally, we will be using paint and animal cut outs to make silhouettes of different animals. | You too could use different objects and mediums to make different marks and patterns that relate to different animals. You could also explore making animal print/ silhouettes out of the different objects that you can find at home. |
| PE and Orientation/
Mobility and Movement
| Our focus for these sessions will be on linking actions with a link to gymnastics. This will be done by exploring low level soft play and gymnastic equipment and discovering ways moving over, under and around them.
We will also be exploring moving like different animals and how they move it might be slow like a snail or quick like a cheater, it might be using our arms as wings or walking tall like a giraffe or sideways like a crab.
The children will also be encouraged to be active at break and lunchtime by using the bikes, balls and different outside play equipment.
| You could use music to explore movement – either through expression of dance, or use in the background to do any physio or stretching exercises to. Can you move like different animals, flap your arms like a bird or crawl like a cat, can you slither like a snake or jump like a rabbit.
Cosmic Yoga or Monkey yoga on YouTube is quite an engaging way to get involved in moving our bodies.
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| Cooking / Life skills | We will be exploring the process of making biscuits. Each week will make a different type of biscuit using animal cutters. After the half term some children will know some or all of the process and be able to go through the whole process of making a biscuit. All children will use and learn the different skills involved in the making of biscuits- some will be done independently and some will be done with adult support. Dietary requirements will be followed. | Encourage your child to continue to build the range of foods and flavours they will tolerate in their diet. You can also make biscuits or cookies at home with your children to practice the skills, these can also be cut into animal shapes or decorated in animal patterns. |
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