Year: Nursery 1

2016

March- June

Educational Overview: 10 Week Plan

Mo Willems, Spring Weather, Flowers, Earth Day, Plants/ Trees, Pond Life,
Dirt/Worms, Caterpillar/ Butterflies, Bugs/ Insects, Summer
Communication/Language

Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and
stories
Focusing attention- still listen or do, but can shift own attention
Responds to simple instructions, e.g. to get or put away an object
Beginning to understand why and how questions
Uses talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening and anticipate what might
happen next, recall and relive past experiences
Questions why things happen and gives explanations. Asks e.g. who, what, when, how

Literacy

Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured

Suggests how the story might end
Describes main story settings, events and principal characters
Recognizes rhythm in spoken words
Ascribes meanings to marks that they see in different places

Mathematics

Begins to make comparisons between quantities

Knows that numbers identify how many objects are in a set
Shows an interest in number problems
Separates a group of three or four objects in different ways, beginning to recognize that
the total is still the same
Shows an interest in numerals in the environment
Shows awareness of similarities of shapes in the environment
Beginning to talk about the shapes of everyday objects, e.g. round and tall

Understanding the World

Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experience

Recognizes and describes special times or events for family or friends

STEM
Make recycled paper from scraps of used paper, magazines, newspaper
Celery experiment- understand that plants roots suck up food and travel through tubes to the
plants leaves

Personal and Social Development

Can play in a group, extending and elaborating play ideas, e.g. building up a role-play
activity with other children
Keeps play going by responding to what others are saying or doing
Demonstrates friendly behavior, initiating conversations and forming good relationships
with peers and familiar adults
Confident to talk to other children when playing, and will communicate freely about own
home and community
Shows confidence in asking adults for help
Can usually adapt behavior to different events, social situations and changes in routine

Expressive Arts & Design

Explores and learns how sounds can be changed

Uses various construction materials
Joins construction pieces together to build and balance
Realizes tools can be used for a purpose
Sings to self and makes up simple songs
Makes up rhythms
Captures experiences and responses with a range of media, such as music, dance and
paint and other materials or words

Physical Development

Extending balance, agility and coordination with movement.

Using balloons to practice heading and kick ups.
Participation in a team game of soccer
Runs skillfully and negotiates space successfully, adjusting speed or direction to avoid
obstacles
Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good
control
Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name

Spanish

Show understanding of basic simple questions by answering in short simple phrases

Community helpers and places
Listen attentively and respond to stories read aloud

Mandarin

Show understanding of basic simple questions by answering in short simple phrases

Community helpers and places
Listen attentively and respond to stories read aloud

Drama

Understands that different media can be combined to create different effects

Plays cooperatively as part of a group to develop and act out a narrative
Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change

Music

Music in the community

How and where to access music