Magic carpet – Granny went to market

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. Develop own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.
Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through art, role-play and stories.
Use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems.

Lesson Planning

Represent ideas through art, role-play and stories and use language to describe position.

Teaching Outcomes:

To represent ideas through art, role-play and stories.
To listen to and retell a story.
To use language to describe position.

Children will:

Retell and sequence a story.
Make adaptations to a story.
Learn ordinal numbers to 10.
Express their ideas through art and writing.

Planning

Provided Resources

Granny’s souvenir
Story sequencing and ordinal number cards
Countries visited
Magic carpet outline

You Will Need

Magic carpet
Scented candles
Paper shapes
Sensory table resources as required
Sensory resources for the input as required
Small world people & settings
Post it notes

Weblinks

My Granny went to market: A Round-the-world counting rhyme by Stella Blackstone from amazon.co.uk
Japanese art ideas from activityvillage.co.uk
Australian art ideas from activityvillage.co.uk
African art ideas from activityvillage.co.uk
Free printable ordinal number flash cards from flashcardfox.com
My granny went to market bingo boards from primaryeflresources.files.wordpress.com