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Train is a coming!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Superheroes Superhero Vehicles

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Sing songs, make music and dance and experiment with ways of changing them.
  • Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
  • Use what has been learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes.
  • Represent own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role-play and stories.
  • Use everyday language to talk about position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems.
  • Recognise, create and describe patterns.
  • Explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.

Lesson Planning

Let’s set off on a train adventure, will we go as fast as the bullet train? It is up to you! Share ideas, design and create your own station and train role-play as well as film your very own small world train stories.

Children will:

  • Use their imaginations and ideas to create train related role-play scenes/small world stories, selecting resources independently to bring their thoughts to life, including sound effects.
  • Use mathematical language of time, money, distance, size during the set-up of and engagement in role/small world play.
  • Create train pictures using repeating patterns.

Provided Resources

  • Train role-play ideas
  • Small world train story ideas
  • Child led activities ideas

You Will Need

  • Things that go! book
  • Items for role-play
  • Trains and tracks
  • Small world animals/people/dinosaurs etc
  • Video camera
  • Shape sponges
  • Playdough and tools
  • Rolling pins
  • Plastic and glass bottles with lids
  • Lentils
  • Food colouring

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