Summer Term Topic – We are going on a Journey

Transport

Activities that you may be able to carry out at home.

Maths

·         Sorting buses by colour or size.

·         Counting busses you can see in a book, on a walk.

·         Making busses using cut out shapes.

·         Adding people or animals to the bus, counting how many can fit on the bus.

·         Putting animals or people on/under/in the bus.

Reading

·         Sharing books about buses for example ones we may be using in school will include; wheels on the bus, Boy on the bus, Naughty bus.

·         Looking at bus time tables

·         Looking at different signs

Writing

·         Making marks with toy buses in paint, mud, sand.

·         Painting or drawing busses, making different shapes for each part ie a rectangle for the bus, squares for windows, circles for wheels.

Phonics

·         Listen to different transport sounds. This may be whilst on a walk or in your garden or on YouTube.

·         Listening to the initial sound in a word ie B for bus and finding the bus.

Video clips/ other sources/

activities

·         https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/show-me-show-me-transport

·         http://www.nickjr.co.uk/nick-jr-originals/games/wotb/

Maths

·         Positional language and directions – forward, back, left, right, in, under etc.

·         Car park- draw a car park and label the gaps 1-10. Stick labels 1-10 on the cars. Can the children match the car to the gap?

·         There is a set of road numbers on Twinkl. Can pupils use a car to follow the lines and form each number?

Reading

·         Recognising logos and road signs. Go on a logo hunt around the house – how many can you find? Can you find matching pairs?

Writing

·         Draw lines/shapes on paper- can the children follow the line with a car? (There is a set of road shapes on Twinkl

·         Car and paint- make marks by putting the wheels of the car into paint and driving it along the paper

Phonics

·         Responding to ‘stop’ and ‘go’ with instruments or other sound makers

·         Play ‘I spy’ – what colour cars you can see out the window? What objects you can see whilst driving?

Video clips/ other sources/

activities

·         Can the children wash a toy car? Use different sponges, cloths and an old toothbrush so get the children to use different grips

·         Make your own traffic light- cut an egg box up so there are 3 egg holders. Paint the inside of each egg holder red, yellow and green. Place the painted item on a stick.

·         Play the ‘Traffic Light’ game – red is stop, amber is get ready, green is go.

·         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ-0JzOXDZY  – Mr Tumble’s vehicles

·         Road Safety – ‘stop, look and listen’

Maths

·         Explore use of money and exchanging coins for a ticket

·         Ordering numbers with train carriages – Thomas the Tank Engine trains

·         Match the coloured object to the correct coloured carriage- Make a train out of paper (one piece of paper is a carriage)

·         Measuring lengths of trains and tracks

Reading

·         Thomas the Tank Engine or Chuggington stories

·         The Magic Train Ride

Writing

·         Mark-making and letter formation on train tickets

·         Train track words- stick letters onto pieces of wooden train track and join the track together to make a word

Phonics

·         Train track word building – can you recognise the sounds? Can you make any words?

Video clips/ other sources/

activities

·         Lots of train station, platform announcements etc. on YouTube

·         Thomas Tank Engine website – lots of activities and games, colouring pages etc.

Maths

·         Exploring objects that float and sink in water this could be as an activity during the day or during bath time.

·         Making groups of 2 – putting animals onto Noah’s Ark

Reading

·         Sharing stories including; Row, Row, Row your boat, Brilliant boats, who sank the boat? A sailor went to sea, sea, sea, All Afloat on Noah’s boat, Bear’s Blue Boat (learn colours).

·         Matching letters on opposite sails – uppercase and lowercase, or finding the same

Writing

·         Write a list of or draw pictures of the animals that went on Noah’s Boat

·         Attach foam letters to the back of the toy boats. Can the boats be lined up to make a word? If there are no foam letters then write the letter on the boat instead.

Phonics

·         Use musical instruments to play along to the rhythm/beat of the song ‘Row your Boat’

Video clips/ other sources/

activities

·         https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/numberblocks-five-little-boats-song

·         https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio/old-jacks-boat-rockpool-tales-little-boats

·         https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/i-can-cook-jelly-boats

Maths

·         Put out the flames- cut out flame shapes, draw numbers 1-10 on them. Can the children squirt the number you ask them to find using a squirty bottle?

·         Make a fire engine out of different shapes that have already been cut out

·         Look at the colours on each vehicle- can you name them?

·         To investigate different sized emergency service toys, to then match big and small images of different emergency service vehicles. To be able to identify which is big/small

Reading

·         Look at the words on an emergency vehicle – can you recognise any letters or sounds?

Writing

·         Make your own police badge- can you write your name on the badge?

·         Draw a picture of a police car, ambulance or fire engine

Phonics

·         What sounds do different vehicles make?

·         Sing at different volumes – songs about emergency vehicles and services:999 Emergency Song, I’m a firefighter song, Lots of people to help us song (all available on Twinkl too)

·         https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio/word-soup-faster-faster-emergency

Video clips/ other sources/

activities

·         Pretend to be a fireman by climbing up some stairs

·         Range of props and objects related to rhymes – London’s burning – red pompoms, water spray, bells, Miss Polly had a Dolly – dollies, stethoscope, tuned percussion (xylophones, glockenspiels)