Topic Planning: Spring 1



Topic Planning: Spring 1

WEATHER

NB. PLANNING FLEXIBLE DEPENDENT ON ACTUAL WEATHER OUTSIDE

(See MTP for objectives)

| |Focus |Activities |

|Week 1 |Sunny days |Have a box full of different clothes – discuss when we would wear each item and sort into categories. |

| | |Match items to pictures of different types of weather |

| | |Ask children to choose items of clothing from a box and put them on. Sing: “getting dressed, getting |

| | |dressed, getting dressed today. Oh what fun it is to clap on a sunny, sunny day” etc – ask a child |

| | |wearing clothes for a sunny day to stand up. Repeat with different weathers |

| | |Talk about the importance of wearing hats, sun glasses, sun cream when it is sunny – design reminder |

| | |posters |

| | |Spell “sun” together and think of many words to rhyme with it. Write a sunny poem together |

| | |Draw pictures of what children like to do in the sun on orange cut out circles, add metallic and shiny |

| | |materials to create sun catchers for outdoor area |

| | |Look at shadows – make shadow puppets and draw around shadows in the playground. Talk about why we can’t |

| | |catch our shadows and how they are made |

| | |Make a sun dial |

| | |Talk about how plants grow towards to sun, put a plant on the window sill to watch how it grows |

| | |Link to the seasons – which season is it the most sunny? Understand what the environment and weather is |

| | |like during each season and sort photographs into the four seasons |

| | |Sliced season collages |

| | |Role play – Weather centre/Sweet shop |

|Week 2 |Rainbows |Read Noah’s Ark and discuss why Noah knew the floods were residing when the dove brought a branch home |

| | |Noah’s Ark story and sewing activity |

| | |Read Elmer stories and talk about colours/pattern involved |

| | |ICT: draw scene from Noah’s Ark and add simple text caption |

| | |Make Elmer story sack together |

| | |Numeracy link to Elmer activities: collaging large Elmer, designing own Elmer patterns, talking about and|

| | |recreating patterns |

| | |Talk about colour mixing |

|Week 3 |Rainy days |Talk about how we use water and why we need it – look at pictures of countries where there has been a |

| | |drought and notice differences |

| | |Go outside in the rain – listen to rain on the shelter roof and watch it splash in puddles |

| | |Paint rainy day pictures |

| | |Sing rainy day songs – “wet” from out and about by Shirley Hughes, “clouds” from twinkle, twinkle |

| | |chocolate bar by John Foster – decide which instruments sound good to accompany the songs |

| | |Have picture cards of different creatures – sing incy wincy spider then think of ways to describe the |

| | |other animals and how they get up the water spout |

| | |Think of words to describe the rain – read splish splosh splat poem and write own poem about rain – write|

| | |words on a cut out rain drop to make our own poems |

| | |Sorting welly boots: counting, pairing up, comparing, left/right foot |

| | |Make rain shakers – use different fillings and decide which sounds the most like rain |

| | |Ways to make rain the in the water tray – sieve, plastic containers, watering can |

| | |Draw around puddles and notice how long it takes for them to disappear |

| | |Make a large class cloud collage for the sky in our display |

|Week 4 |Stormy days |Listen to stormy music, e.g. “spring” from the four seasons by Vivaldi – how does the music make you |

| | |feel? |

| | |Books: “After the storm” Percy the Park Keeper or Elmer and the Wind by David McKee |

| | |Design and make flags |

| | |Design and make kites for display board |

| | |Go on a windy walk and use streamers and ribbon to find windy spots around the school grounds |

| | |Blowing bubbles in the outdoor area |

| | |Compose a stormy piece of music together – decide which instruments sound best as different aspects of |

| | |the weather |

| | |Make boats to float in water trays |

|Week 5 |Ice and snow |Make paper snowflakes to hang around classroom – talk about symmetry |

| | |Look for spider’s webs that sparkle in the frost – make glittery spider’s webs |

| | |Jolly Snow by Jane Hissey – talk about how the toys made snow. Sugar/icing sugar in a tray with duplo |

| | |people to create a snowy scene |

| | |Think of words that rhyme with ice, snow and frost – create a frosty poem together |

| | |Ice in the water tray with polar bears and sea creatures |

| | |Observe ice melting in a tray over the course of a day |

| | |Make snow globes |

| | |White play dough to make snowy scenes – fir cones as pine trees |

| | |Think of words to describe snow |

| | |Comparing lentil snowballs – made from lentils in stockings |

|Week 6 |Forecasting the |Talk about activities we do at the weekend and in the holidays – have some pictures and discuss desired |

| |weather |weather for these activities |

| | |Make a week weather forecast – draw pictures for each day and write key words underneath |

| | |Use cereal boxes to make a television with weather forecast on it |

| | |Record the weather for two weeks each day |

| | |Make windmills |

| | |Sing “here we go round the mulberry bush” |

| | |Talk about what we might need to take with us if the forecast says it might rain – test water proof |

| | |materials and make a water proof rain coat for a teddy |

|Week 7 |Using the weather |Cut out pictures from travel brochures of different weathers – make a whole class weather collage |

| | |Think about things that use the weather – solar power calculators, wind chime, kite, washing line, yacht,|

| | |skates |

| | |Write a “how do we use the weather?” poem – e.g. how do we use the rain/snow/wind? We use the…for… |

| | |Washing line number line with clothes blowing in the wind |

| | |Use solar power calculators |

| | |Doll bath outside and washing line for washing and hanging out clothes to dry them in outdoor area |

| | |Make wind chimes |

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