Winter

This curriculum topic scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate the effect of winter on different landscapes and animals. The class identify and record how animals have adapted to living in cold conditions in a range of habitats around the world.

Winter Weather
Explore how the weather changes during winter and its effect on the natural world including how water can freeze and turn to ice when the temperature falls below zero

Winter Animals
Explore how animals adapt to the changes to the natural world in the winter including animals that live in Britain and other habitats such as the arctic
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Vehicles
Identify, describe and compare some of the different journeys that can be made by bus, train or plane for a range of purposes by families
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School Counting
Explain and model how to count, order and compare the numbers of special tools and equipment that can be used when working in school lessons
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Family Visits
Practise selecting different vocabulary words to use when completing and composing poems about family visits to different locations
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Push and Pull
Identify, describe and test some of the different pushing and pulling forces that can be used to move a range of objects