Growing

This curriculum topic scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify, describe and record how people can grow and change in different ways during their lifetime as they progress from childhood to adulthood. The class can keep a record of changes to their own bodies as they grow older.

Identify, describe and record how people can grow and change in different ways during their lifetime as they progress from childhood to adulthood

Lesson One : Babies
Explore how to identify and record some of the different ways that parents can care for their babies when completing different actions and jobs

Lesson Two : Baby to Toddler
Explore and record some of the different ways that people can grow and develop as they get older between baby and toddler ages

Lesson Three : Changing Height
Identify, describe and record some of the different ways that people’s bodies can change and develop as they get older in life

Lesson Four : Child to Adult
Identify and compare some of the special skills and actions that can be accomplished at different ages from child through to adult

Lesson Five : What Jobs
Explore how to identify and compare some of the roles and responsibilities of adults who work in different jobs in the local community

Lesson Six : Grandparents
Practise suggesting and recording some of the special ways that grandparents can help and support different members of a family
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Classroom
Identify the location and function of different objects used in the classroom and explore how to formulate rules to manage the classroom safely
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Shape Patterns
Identify, describe and compare the sequences of geometric shapes that have been used to create a range of different patterns
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Supermarkets
Read and produce labels to identify and describe items that can be sold in different shops and match initial sounds of words to the correct letters of the alphabet
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Family Support
Investigate and illustrate some of the special ways that members of a family can use to support each other in different events and experiences