MTP Overview
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
New children, introductions, names (self-registration), making friends
Exploring feelings
Keeping safe – stranger danger
Festivals – Harvest, Ramadan, Eid
Talking about own communities
Bring a bear to school – Teddy Bears picnic
Mathematical Development
(see also group time plan)
Bear rhymes
Compare bears – sorting for size and colour
Weighing/measuring/pattern with compare bears
Train carriage game – matching bears 1:1 correspondence
Track games
Teddy bear number line
Counting books based on bears
Size language, matching bowls, chairs, beds to bears, ordering for size
Display of 3
Number hunt*
KUW
(see also themes group time plan)
Sand (how sand behaves)
Water (how water behaves)
Science theme – Our bodies.
Making porridge, adding different things to porridge
Making and decorating bear biscuits
Exploring textures – designing and making a bedcover
Making a chair/bed for the bear
ICT programs drawing bears
Making a representation/plan of the bears’ cottage
See PSE for festivals
Preparing the picnic*
Communication, Language and Literacy
(see also language group time plan)
Bear family/Our families (vocabulary related to families)
Retelling story, labels, speech bubbles
Bear rhymes and other bear stories
Non-fiction books ‘ourselves’ and ‘people who look after us’
Three bears cottage role play
Shop role play
Introduce ‘Playing with Sounds’ materials
Writing invitations to the picnic
Physical Development
(see also movement group time plan)
Walk in the woods
Weather boxes
Looking after ourselves – healthy eating, healthy teeth, washing hands
Markings (outdoors)*
Creative Development
(see also music group time plan)
Shades of brown
Exploring textures
Polystyrene press prints
Bear hunt (outdoors) with explorers box*
Teddy puppets
Songbook
* Ideas sheets in staffroom
Visitors
Dentist
Visits
Children’s Centre, Heaton Woods
Home Link
Teddy and toothbrush, n/f book dentist
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