Summer Term 1
Our Topic is Pirates 

Below is a table of the 7 areas of learning 
(3 Prime Areas and 4 Specific Areas of learning) 
It displays what activities we will be completing.

​​Personal, Social, Emotional Development

We will be thinking about the life of a pirate and looking at different cultures.  We will have a circle time about stealing and discuss: is it is the right thing to do? ​

​Physical Development

We will be making up our own pirate dance! The finger play table in our class has also been filled with lots of activities to get our fingers moving ready for writing!

Communication and Language

We will set up our own pirate role play area.  In letters and sounds we will use our buried treasure game to sound out words and put them in the chest (if they are real words) or in the bin (if they are made up words!)

Mathematics

Our maths focus is positional language; we will guide our friends around a map.  Miss Belcher is also going to hide jewels in the sand tray so we can hunt for them! We will then sort them using our own criteria.   ​

Literacy

We are going to write messages and send them away in bottles in the sea!  We will also write speech bubbles to say what we think a pirate might say and write a letter to a pirate, thinking about what we would like to find out!

Understanding the World

We are going to make our own pirate maps... we will ask our friends to follow use the maps to try to find the treasure!  We are also going to have challenge/ investigation looking at the topic of floating and sinking. Come into our class and find out the results!

​Expressive Arts

We are going to try painting a pirate, designing pirate flags and pirate hats.  We are also going to build pirate ships and peg doll pirates!