Favourite Stories
Book 1
Book 2
Text
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Unit Title
Animals in Stories and in the Environment
Engage/Hooks
Ice, clay, Hide and Seek
Duckling eggs to observe hatching
Additional Experiences
Librarians to visit
Visit to the Library
Outcomes
(including published work)
Learning environment to reflect the story settings
Areas of Learning
EYFS Skills
Activities
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
To be a confident communicator and to make friends.
To enjoy being responsible for my things.
To play in a group to tell the story by extending and elaborating play ideas
To learn how to be tidy and put their things in the right places
Communication and Language
Listening and attention
Carpet skills
Joining in with repeated refrains MTYT and speaking in whole sentences.
Share Sustained Thinking.
To listen to stories with increasing attention and recall.
To listen carefully to instructions
Use positional language.
RWI listening activities
Show and Tell
Review time
Physical Development
Turning pages by the corners
Adding details to lines and circles using gross and fine motor skills
Strengthening the dominant hand for writing.
Using scissors.
Beginning to show self-care in toileting and putting their coat on independently.
Daily writing challenges.
Mark-making in and outside
Finger-gym
Playdough Disco
Scissor skills and cutting challenges.
Adults to model wiping nose, washing hands and flushing toilet.
Children taught how to put on their coat independently
Literacy
Looks at books independently
Holding a book, the right way up and tracking text top to bottom, left to right.
Listens and joins in with stories Distinguishes between different marks they make.
Daily rhymes and story time.
Adults to model enjoyment and use of books.
Mark-making challenges.
Pencil grip support and name writing cards.
Maths
Maths Meetings and Maths Mastery
Using number language and number names in play
The stable order principle, counting to 10/20
Correspondence principle- 1-1
Looking at pattern and early number up to 5
Continuing with early number. Measure, comparing size and weight. Thinking about full, empty and half-full.
Grocer’s shop so we can buy and sort food for the caterpillar.
Adults to model how to count and to finger match items to find the total.
Number songs
Symmetry
Copying patterns and repeating patterns. Creating symmetrical patterns
Understanding the world
Looking for colours in the environment
Talking about themselves, their families and their traditions at Easter time
Life cycles
Natural changes outside in the environment
Talking about the weather. Looking for signs of Spring.
RE
Learning about special times of the year, Easter.
Easter celebrations
Looking after animals, creatures and the environment.
Expressive arts and design
Exploring colour and texture of bears and the animals in the stories.
How to change colour or texture.
Drawings
Paintings and colour mixing
Collages
Pattern making
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