Owls - Schemes of Work
Summer Term 2008 

Topics

• Growing
• Transport

Communication, Language and Literacy

• Listen to stories and rhymes connected with the topics
• Visit Alice Holt
• Talk about seeds, flowers, fruit and vegetables
• Talk about types of transport
• Writing passports
• Rhymes, Alliteration, Jolly Phonics

Mathematical Development

• Number recognition
• Number rhymes
• Seed counting activities
• Weighing and measuring
• Dot-to-dot pictures
• Use vehicles for number problems

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

• Discover where seeds come from
• Plant seeds and watch them grow
• Look at the local environment
• Remote control vehicles
• Junk vehicle modeling

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Show care and concern for living things by growing seedlings
• Listen to the story of Handa’s Surprise and encourage children to talk about their home and community
• Develop awareness of own needs
  

Physical Development

• Trip to Fisher’s Farm
• Use gardening tools safely
• Use construction sets to make vehicles
• Use tools in woodwork
• Swimming
• PE
• Sports Day

Creative Development

• Engage in role play based on a garden centre
• Paint flower pictures
• Make clay seed collages
• Sing growing and transport songs
• Fathers Day cards