Columbia Grange School

Semi-formal Pathway Medium Term Plan / Class 2 Spring 1

Topic - Animals

Communication

• Learn the signs for the animals
• Learn new words related troto the curriculum / describing words
• Sharing stories and songs
• Sharing activities 
• Playing games / turn taking

Early Reading & Writing

• Describe the animal
• Guess the animal by description or sight powerpoints
• Share animal books / stories
• Make information sheet about an animal using writing or pictures
• Sensory tray mark making (snow salt or flour coloured rice)
• Cbeebies phonics sounds
• ABC zoo story
• I spy animal sheets
• Simple alliteration jungle game
• Poems and rhymes commotion in the ocean

Early Maths

• Sort animals by size, pattern, characteristics
• Make your own board game - get the animals across the iceberg - dice counting
• Repetitive patterns - animals / patterns of animal skins/fur / love bug
• Counting game feed animals by throwing correct number of items into animals mouth game
• Draw family members in order of size
• Underwater counting game
• Hedgehog peg counting
• Shark ping pong counting
• Rice counting

Creative

• Make own farm yard barns for sorting animals
• Make arctic animals
• Action songs / signing songs
• Make Zoo animals - bubble wrap rolling pin patterns
• Make sharks for number games
• Valentines crafts - love bug, footprints, love cloud
• Chinese new year crafts - Lantern, dragon, Ox

ICT

• Purple mash - zoo scene
• Jigsaws online 
• Guess the animal powerpoint
• Purplemash zoo jigsaw puzzles
• Stories and songs online
• Counting games online
• Phonics games online

Physical/Sensory

• Go noodle
• Winter walk
• Jungle yoga cosmic kids
• Action songs
• Animal movement game
• Turtle and shell threading fine motor
• Underwater yoga cosmic kids
• Nature walk
• Playdough hedgehog - poke sticks in

Personal & Social

Whole school focus - Kindness

• Core Theme 1:Health and Wellbeing - Mental health
• Core Theme 2: Relationships
• Friendships - Managing hurtful behaviour and bullying - Respecting self and others
• Core Theme 3: Living in the Wider World - Shared responsibility 

• Jobs you can do at home to help
• Whole school PHSE wellbeing “Be active”
• Sharing and feelings through rainbow fish 
• Having fun in the snow
• Sharing games / taking turns

Science

• Explore ice - freezing and melting
• Animal habitats
• Sort and categorize animal types / homes / body parts
• Make sensory bottles
• Weather conditions
• Make pancakes

Knowledge & Understanding

• Understand different habitats
• shaving foam, tin foil, flour, real ice to create your snow / ice scene small world play
• Zoo animal role play check up sheets (feed, exercise, sleep)
• ICT games on computer
• Nocturnal animals fact sheet
• Magic wax writing
• Chinese new year 
• Pancake day