E M E R G E N C Y !

At home you can:

Regularly read with your child, little and often is best.

Practice writing numbers 0-10 using a range of writing materials: pens, pencils, paintbrushes,  finger painting.

Talk about what happens when we go to the hospital, dentist and doctors. 

Visit your local library for books about emergency or to find one of our shared stories (see below)

Some useful websites

- People who help us

- Washing hands game

- Fireman Sam games and activities

- Hampshire Fire Service for kids

DETAILS OF WHAT WE WILL BE LEARNING

Communication Language and Literacy

Core Texts: Scaredy Squirrel, A cheese and tomato spider, Hairy Maclary, Hairy Maclary’s rumpus at the vets.

Non fiction: Firefighters, Police, Usborne First Experiences

Role play: Emergency zone, vets, fire station, police station, doctors surgery

- Talk about personal visits to emergency places

- Join in class discussion about caring for pets, asking questions of visitors.

- Review sounds and letters and words we learnt last term.

- Begin to write simple lists and labels independently.  Begin to write simple captions with support.

- Retell narratives from texts through drama, group photo books, own simple caption books

- Write captions (cheese and tom spider, own non fiction mini book) write thank you cards for visitors

- Mark making: emergency kit (draw and label) skeleton body, vets / doctors / police man record sheets.

Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy

• recap oral counting to 100, one more/ less to 10
• ordering numbers across tens boundaries
• recognise and continue patterns linked to number
• ordinal language – first, second, third
• begin to count in 2s, 5s
• begin to estimate
• partition and recombine groups of up to 10 objects
• introduce empty set (0)
• recognise that the number of objects in set does not change by moving them
• Maths without worksheets: firefighters, mechanics toolbox, shape investigations

Physical Development
Continue Write Dance
PE lessons: gymnastics.  Focus:

• To use space safely
• To recognise directions and travel with control
• Identify and use different parts of the body
• Work cooperatively to move simple apparatus

Hand gym – to strengthen fingers and gain fine motor skills

Creative Development

• Music Express – exploring sound patterns
• Using percussion instruments  explore louder, quieter, faster, slower.
• Role play – link with CLL communication encourage expression of own ideas in sentences, use imagination in class / group / chuld initiated drama
• Explore colours – fire art using range of materials

Personal, social emotional development
SEAL: Going for Goals
Week 1: Taking responsibility – for our successes and when things go wrong
Week 2: Waiting for what you want; persistence (keeping going)
Week 3: Resilience – bouncing back or maintaining effort through a difficult experience or after a mistake or failure
Week 4: Setting and achieving goals

Talking about our fears – Scaredy Squirrel
Explore caring for other living things e.g. animals

Knowledge and understanding of the world

• People who help us – prep for visitors, discuss roles after visits, encourage question words
• Recap road safety
• Trip to fire station /  police station
• Construction – making a pet carrier
• Use construction to build a range of emergency vehicles
• Talk about personal / family visits to emergency places