Major Learning Area: MATHS
Major Strand: SPACE
Theme: SHAPES
Focus
Questions
What is a square? Triangle? Circle? Rectangle?
Recognise and name.
How are these shapes the same/different?
What are the identifying features of each shape?
Number of sides/corners. Can it roll?
Where are these shapes in our environment?
Activities
(Suggestion
- concentrate on one shape at a time eg 1 or 2 days per shape)
ENGLISH
Trace shapes and shape words
Try and copy shape words
Describe properties of shapes – focus on square,
triangle, rectangle and circle.
Look at books about shapes
Write class poem together about shapes eg A circle is
a round hoop
A bowl of soup etc
Describe properties of shapes eg play ‘what am I?’
Find shapes in the environment.
Find and colour shapes on a worksheet
Cut out shapes to make a collage or a picture
Match shapes – shape lotto/other games
Sort shapes
Use 2D shapes to copy a picture
Make shape patterns – repeating or tessellation
properties
Count shapes
Trace shapes
Draw around templates
Observe properties of 3D shapes eg which can
roll/can’t
Use 3D blocks for building
Discuss importance of shape for building/design –
observe in environment
Cutting curved and straight lines.
Junk art/construction
Sew shapes
Use shape cutters on play dough table
Shape rubbings
Shape mobiles
Shape collage
Draw real objects made up of shapes
Paint shapes on easel
Cut strips of paper, curl over to make circles and
glue. Could put several together to make a paper chain or use different sizes,
glue on to separate sheet of paper to
make 3D paper circle collage.
Observe shape in the environment
Look at pictures of place around the world – discuss
how shape used in buildings.
Look at pictures of pyramids – how people have used
shape in past times.
Health – hand
washing before making shape food
-
could discuss term ‘keep in shape’ referring to physical fitness and body
shape.
Weeks 3 and 4
Major Learning Area: English
Major Strand: Speaking and
Listening/Reading/Viewing
Theme: Nursery Rhymes.
Outcome
Statements:
SLF, SL1, RF, R1, V1, W1
Focus
Questions
Questions as to meaning of each rhyme will be asked
eg what did the character do? Why? What happened? What do you think might
happen next?
Children will experience:
simple language structures
rhyme and rhythm
reading along with the teacher
using picture cues
using oral language
reciting and memorisation
recognise that print has meaning
Activities
ENGLISH
Recite
and learn rhymes eg. Humpty Dumpty/Little Miss Muffet/Baa
baa black sheep/Jack and Jill/Pat a cake/Sing a song
of sixpence/ Hey Diddle Diddle./Hickory Dickory Dock
Make
song cards so that children can ‘read’ along as they learn.
Sequencing
of 3 pictures to make nursery rhyme books
Colour
pictures from rhymes
Copy
and trace words from rhymes and draw picture.
Draw
favourite part from rhyme, teacher scribe description.
Explore
rhyming words – insert own rhymes into the songs eg Humpty Dumpty sat on a cat,
Humpty Dumpty had a great hat. Children usually find this amusing!
Explore
language of cake making when learning Pat a cake, eg mix/sieve/stir
Explore
rhymes of own names if possible.
Cut,
paste and match words from rhyme - possibly into a sentence
MATHS
Print
Humpty’s wall ( pattern and area)
Count,
read and write numbers worksheets eg spiders or cakes
Order
baa baa black sheep’s sacks of wool from 1 – 3
Order
Humpty by size from smallest to largest
Weighing
cake mix to make cakes.
Make
a Humpty puzzle picture – cut out and put him back together again
Number
order – join the dots to complete a picture eg 1 –5 to draw a crown, add
glitter jewels (sing a song of sixpence).
Make
number games for children to play eg roll dice to collect numbered pieces of
Humpty or to collect 8 legs for a spider.
Look
at time – o’clock – Hickory Dickory Dock)
SCIENCE
Look
at process of change in cake making
Could
test different materials wrapped around eggs (Humpty) to see which prevents egg
from breaking – see also technology.
Observe
egg shell inside and out, explore how egg changes when cooked in different ways
TECHNOLGY
Design
something to catch Humpty and stop him from breaking or something to wear.
Build
a wall for Humpty to sit on
Design
and make a spider catcher for Miss Muffet
Examine
equipment used to make cakes eg mixer – could draw a hand mixer for example to
encourage children to look carefully at how it works.
Make
a baker’s hat (pat a cake) or a crown for a king
(sing a song of sixpence)
Make and taste honey sandwiches (sing a song of
sixpence)
SOCIETY AND
ENVIRONMENT
Could discuss past history of rhymes eg written long
time ago
Make Humpty from card, add split pin arms and legs.
Print brick wall for Humpty to sit on.
Recite, learn and discuss Little Miss Muffet. Handprint spiders
Paint egg cartons black to make giant spider.
Make collage Miss Muffet to
display with giant spider
Colour Miss Muffet picture
Make spiders and webs
Recite and learn Baa Baa
Black Sheep. Bubble print black sheep.
Make black sheep
Listen to and discuss Sing a song of sixpence.
Make crowns
Cut out blackbird shapes, paint black, add wobbly eye
and pop stick to make puppet.
Learn Pat a cake Pat a cake Baker man .
Make bakers/chefs hats.
Learn Hickory Dickory Dock.
Cut out circular clock face, glue onto rectangle to make Grandfather clock.
Make paper mouse to glue onto clock.
PHYSICAL/MOVEMENT
Acting out rhymes
Week 5
Major Learning Areas:
Science/ Society and Environment
Major Learning Strand : Life
and Living/ Place and Space
Theme : Pets
Outcome
Statements
Science LL2 - Understands
that needs, features and functions of living things are related and change over
time
Society and Environment
PSF.3 - Participates in routines to care for personal belongings
ENGLISH
Discuss -What are pets? Why do people have pets?
What responsibilities do pet owners have?
What needs do pets have?
Which animals are suited to being a pet? Why?
Colour pet pictures
List pets.
Read variety of stories about pets.
Trace pet sheets for handwriting practise eg cats
whiskers or lead dog down the path to its bone.
Copy pet words and draw
Match pet words, could cut, match and paste.
What pet would child like? Draw. Scribe response.
Mice maths – match the correct numbered cheese to the
correct numbered mouse.
Match sets of pets to correct number by pencil or cut
and paste.
Could make a pet game.
Favourite pet graph
Discuss in /out, cut out pet put it in its home eg
kittens in a basket
Cut out 5 fish glue them in their tank/ cut out four
feathers glue them on the bird etc
Make cat masks
Make birds with concertina wings
Make mouse or rabbit head bands,
Make paper fish. Print scales (with end of card tube)
on 2 fish cut outs, staple together, stuff with newspaper, hang up in
classroom, drape blue/green crepe for seaweed/sea effect
Could make pet puppets
3 Blind mice, How much is that doggy in the window? 2
little dicky birds, 12345 once I caught a fish alive, 5 fluffy kittens sitting
on the wall – to tune of 5 green bottles
PHYSICAL
ISLAM
Week 6
Main Learning Area:
Science/Society and Environment
Main Learning Strand: Life
and Living/Natural and Social Systems/Place and Space
Theme: Australian Animals/
The Bush
Outcome
Statements
Science LL2 - Understands
that needs; features and functions of living things are related
Society PSF - Recognises
features in the environment and cares for those of personal importance
Society NSS1.1 - Understands
that natural systems consist of elements including people
ENGLISH
Discuss - What animals live in Australia?
Where do they live? What is their habitat?
What is the effect of people on their habitat?
What are the characteristics of each animal?
What do they eat?
Colour pictures of Australian animals
Copy animal words
Draw a picture of an animal – describe it, teacher
scribe response
Tracing and tracking activities using Australian
animals pictures.
Read stories about Australian animals eg wombat
stew/possum magic
Draw around
templates
MATHS
SCIENCE
SOCIETY AND
ENVIRONMENT
Could develop
theme by incorporating aboriginal culture.
Identify
Australia on a globe.
ART
Glue matchsticks
or similar onto cut out of echidna to make ‘spikes’.
Make koala masks
Glue fur onto cut
outs of koalas add cotton wool ears – could display with leaves and branches
from a gum tree.
Sponge print
Australian animal cut outs
Make finger
puppet
Make possum faces
from paper plate, cut into centre and make conical to create 3D effect.
Handprint
echidnas
Make a frilled
neck lizard – use fan folding for frill
Dot painting
Make a didgereedoo
TECHNOLOGY
See art also
Make own ‘pouch’
to put things in – could sew felt or like.
ISLAMIC VALUES
The wonder of the natural world
Songs
Kookaburra sits on the electric wire
I went walking in the bush one day
Goanna sits in the midday sun
Weeks 7 and 8
Main Learning Area: Science
Main Learning Strands: Investigating
Scientifically/ Life and Living
Theme: The Five Senses
Outcome
Statements
ISF - Demonstrates an
awareness of, explores and responds to objects and events in the environment
using the senses; and is able to make choices bases on experience.
LLF - Demonstrates an
awareness of own personal features and basic needs
ENGLISH
Discuss -What are the five senses? Smell, taste, sight, touch
and hearing.
Who gave us our senses?
What are our senses for?
Touch - play feely bag game. Make play dough with groups or use modelling
clay. Describe texture.
Sight – Play I spy – with description not initial sounds/ memory games, look
at objects and remember them
Hearing – list sound words. Listen to different sounds – name.
Smell – list words to describe smells
Trace pictures
Follow tracks with pencil eg from nose to flower, eye
to book, tongue to food
Cut out and match words eg I can see a……. I can smell
the……
Sequence a story about the senses eg a balloon being
blown up and then popped
Match the correct sense to the correct picture
Continue number work 1 - 4
Sight – observational drawings of selves in mirrors
Make optical illusion spinners
Hearing – make megaphones
Make shakers
Listen to different sounds – guess the sound eg
objects in covered pots
Smell – smell different numbered pots, guess the
smell
Taste – taste
a variety of foods, guess the foods
Touch – feel different textures, describe. Draw around
hand, glue a different texture at the end of each finger.
Explore hot and cold eg make toast from frozen bread,
put ice cubes in the water trolley.
Make a musical instrument
Finger painting
Painting with different textures eg feathers, cotton
buds etc
Use textured materials to make collage
Make card mouths with fringed teeth and long rolled
tongue (cutting exercise)
Make eyes; cut out iris, pupil, glue onto white eye
shape. Cut black fringe for eyelashes.
Blow painting - discuss the way paint moves/patterns
Music
Sing Heads and shoulders, Oh be careful little eyes.
Weeks 9 and
10.
Main Learning Area -
Science/ Society and Environment
Main Learning Strands -
Earth and beyond/ Place and Space/Natural and Social Systems
Theme - Winter
Outcome
Statements
EB1 - Understands that
easily observable environmental features may influence life
PSF.1 - Recognises familiar
features in the immediate environment
NSSF.1 Responds to features
of the natural environment
Match winter word activities – eg cut out words and
match to make a sentence or just match individual words.
Copy winter words/illustrate
Colour winter pictures
Trace the snowman or similar eg pattern on a sock or
beanie
Make a winter book
Draw a winter picture – scribe description
Sequencing activities eg building a snowman/putting
wellies on.
Dress
the person game, throw dice pick up numbered items of clothing and dress figure
SCIENCE
Draw around a puddle with chalk,
observe during the day – where does the puddle go? Might need to make own
puddle.
Observe steam from a kettle on a
cold metal ladle or similar object. Watch how the water droplets drip off the
ladle. This is an example of how rain is formed ie
water vapour rises reaches cold air and falls back to earth as rain.
Discuss wind –
air movement, make frogs/fish and play flap the frog to demonstrate how air
moves things, could use this activity in transport also eg boats with sails
SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT
Discuss the importance of rainfall to our lives.
Design an outfit for someone to wear in the snow/rain
Make rain glitter
drops – cut out raindrop shape, glue and glitter, add string and hang up in
classroom
Colour picture of
boy in rain using wax crayon then ink wash over the top for rain effect.
Make cotton wool snowmen
Paint /draw winter pictures
Look at pictures of artist’s winter scenes.
Use cut paper to make a winter scene
Sponge print over paper doily to make snowflake
Rainy day mobile eg threading cut straws then
attaching to a ‘cloud’.
Make rain shakers eg rice in a tube.
Use different instruments to represent different
weather conditions.
Find stormy weather music by a composer for children
to listen to.
Discuss
importance of movement in keeping warm.
Could mime skiing, slipping or moving to stormy
weather music.
Read/discuss story of Prophet Noah.
Discuss the power of Allah to change the seasons and
discuss the purpose.