Zoom like a plane

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Transport: On the Move Through the Air

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Objectives

Early Learning Goals

Listen attentively in a range of situations. Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what is heard with relevant comments, questions or actions.
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.
Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, role-play and stories.
Know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.

Lesson Planning

Talk about airports and use play experiences to learn about airports.

Teaching Outcomes:

To listen to stories and talk about airports.
To use play experiences to learn about airports.

Children will:

Use role-play experiences to explore and extend learning about aeroplanes.
Talk about airports and share experiences.
Speak clearly in full sentences.

Planning

Provided Resources

Passport powerpoint
Plane picture instructions
Aeroplane rhymes

You Will Need

Before the session ask children to bring in old plane tickets and photographs of journeys to share.

Paint and sponges
Blue paper
Blu-tack
Fish shapes cut out of newspaper
Pre-assembled paper aeroplanes
Post-it notes
A passport
Mirrors
Digital camera
Airport role-play dressing up clothes
Suitcases
Bags
6 shoe boxes
A selection of clothes for cold and warm climates
Toilet roll inners
Large cardboard box

Weblinks

Paper aeroplane gallery, folding instructions and hands-on experiments from howthingfly.si.edu
Aeroplane craft ideas and instructions for toilet roll aeroplanes from handsonaswegrow.com
How can aeroplanes fly? from easyscienceforkids.com
I'm a little aeroplane rhyme from rabbitsabc.com
The Wright Brothers -YouTube clip