Language, Literacy & Communication

•Farm stories (learn, retell and re-write Pie Corbett style)•Retell stories using puppets•Instructional texts – how to look after an animal / wash hands properly•Labelling animal / tractor parts•Role play – farm shop – write lists for shop, signs etc•Make a non-fiction fact file book about farm animals•Lists – jobs that a farmer has to do•Alliteration – soft, smelly sheep etc•Farmer’s diary – sequencing activities

Mathematical Development

•Number – making comparisons / sorting different farmyard animals / fruit & veg according to their size, shape, colour etc.• Use money in role play area•Weighing different items•Discuss shapes seen on the farm e.g. circular wheels, rectangular chimneys. Make a shape farm picture.•Draw a map of the farm and give directions.•Create a graph/table of favourite farm animals.•Measuring farm animals using blocks and other objects.•Using different types of seeds and beans to ‘plant a pattern’ Reception Autumn Term

Reception-The FarmTrip – Swansea Community Farm

Knowledge & Understanding of the World

•What is it like on a farm? Identify animals that live on the farm•group animals and plants according to similarities and differences•Life cycles – chicks and ducks , •Farm animals and their young•Labelling parts of animals•Using magnifying glasses to look at objects closely•What farmyard animals produce milk, eggs etc.•Investigate materials – Three Little Pigs•Animal habitats

Welsh Language Development

•Counting and number vocabulary. Sawl?•Colour vocabulary•Tedi Twt: Y Tywydd, Ar y Fferm •Introduce farm animal vocab and weather•Pwy wyt ti? ______ ydw i.• Ga i ...•Incidental Welsh

Creative Development

•Scarecrow craft-make scarecrows•Animal masks and puppets•Make a tractor from collage materials•Printing with vegetables grown on the farm•Decorate eggs•Make tractor from boxes, tubes and cardboard wheels•Sing farm / animal songs•Choose percussion instruments to represent different farm animals•Cooking farm produce•Creating ‘muddy’ paint tracks with toy tractors•Making paper mache fruit and veg for role play area.

PSE (PSD, WB+CD)

•class rules, Why we have rules. Consequences of our actions.•Looking after animals in the environment.•Harvest•Circle time•Personal hygiene – washing hands and brushing teeth

Physical Development

•Gross motor skills - Moving like different farm animals•Acting out different farming jobs•Fine motor skills – moulding farm animals•‘Shearing sheep’ scraping foam from balloons•scissor skills•Play games using bean bags•Chalk lines outside – balance•Parachute games using farm animal characters

ICT

•Use drag and drop to match or label animals/ fruit and vegetables•Textease: creating farm pictures•2create-making their own stories using splosh images and simple words

RE

•Harvest•The lost sheep•Noah’s Ark

2014-2015