Fly Away Home (Visiting relations)

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Transport: On the Move My Special Journeys

Objectives

Early Learning Goals

  • Talk about past and present events in your life and in the lives of family members. Know that other children don’t always enjoy the same things, and are sensitive to this. Know about similarities and differences between themselves and others, and among families, communities and traditions.
  • 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 phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. Also write some irregular common words. Write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
  • Express yourself effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs. Use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future. Develop own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.

Lesson Planning

Talk to others about journey experiences to visit relations and represent the journeys using creative media and writing.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To talk to others about their experiences of journeys to visit relations.
  • To represent the journeys using creative media and writing.

Children will:

  • Increase known vocabulary (of family members).
  • Give narrative/explanation re. their own special journey to visit relatives.
  • Represent that narrative in creative media and writing, and change words to add to song.

You Will Need

  • What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson
  • Ladybird puppet/soft toy
  • Paper leaves and headbands
  • Information books on ladybirds and other insects
  • Tracing paper
  • Magnifying glasses
  • Resources for maths games: dice, black dot stickers
  • Resources for Ladybird Hotel
  • Art and writing resources (see session 1)
  • Classroom activities as for session 1