Unit A – Nursery Rhymes

This literacy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate the use of patterned language and rhyming in traditional nursery rhymes and practise segmenting words into individual phonemes. The class can devise short plays to illustrate the sequence of events in nursery rhymes.

Investigate the use of patterned language and rhyming in traditional nursery rhymes and practise segmenting words into individual phonemes by reading and adapting poetry

Lesson One : Hickory Dickory Dock

Identify, describe and model the use of patterned language and vocabulary rhyming words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme poem

Lesson Two : This Old Man

Explore, record and perform the use of rhyming language and vocabulary words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme poem about a special character

Lesson Three : Five Little Ducks

Identify, sequence and order each of the different events that occur in a traditional nursery rhyme and segment and blend cvc words used in the narrative

Lesson Four : Sing a Song of Sixpence

Investigate and change some of the different word rhymes and special vocabulary words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme with a narrative story

Lesson Five : Story Telling

Practise using drama and role-play to retell and illustrate some of the different events that occur in a story based on a traditional nursery rhyme poem

  • Halving Things

    Halving Things

    Explain and model how to find and record the halves of some of the different objects that can be used at home and in school

  • School Friends

    School Friends

    Identify and learn classroom routines and organisation by exploring and describing information and likes and dislikes for each of their classmates

  • Classroom

    Classroom

    Identify the location and function of different objects used in the classroom and explore how to formulate rules to manage the classroom safely

  • Shape Patterns

    Shape Patterns

    Identify, describe and compare the sequences of geometric shapes that have been used to create a range of different patterns