Nursery - Hungry Caterpillar
CURRICULUM FOR Spring 2
This half term our topic is “What a Wonderful World.”
AS READERS
We will be reading books linked to our half term theme: “Handa’s Surprise,” “My Town,” “Dear Zoo,” “Banana Skin Chaos,” and the traditional tale “Chicken Licken.” We are working on our speech sounds/articulation, initial sounds and will introduce the RWI picture cards alongside.
AS WRITERS
To improve the children’s fine and gross motor skills we will be doing activities that encourage making diagonal movements. We will use scarves and movements that encourage this. We have funky fingers daily activities, for example: threading; tweezers; or playdough to strengthen the children’s posture, shoulder and elbow movement, hand grip, pincer, and tripod grip. The children are encouraged to mark make using a variety of different media: post its, notepads, paper, card etc.
AS MATHEMATICIANS
The children will be working on numbers 1 -5, looking at one to one correspondence, how we can count to be effective, cardinality, matching quantity to numeral, ordering them, and seeing what comes before and after a given number. Children will use natural objects, number paths, numerals etc to do this.
AS EXPLORERS
Using our theme, “What a Wonderful World,” children will explore the differences between Harlow and a village in Kenya (Handa’s Surprise) discovering facts about the weather, the environment, the clothes, the language spoken etc.
We will observe the celebrations of Holi; Mother’s Day and Easter; how people celebrate these events, what they do and why. We will also look at why we have to look after our teeth which links in with Oral Health Day (20th March 2025)
We will observe the changes in the environment as we move from Winter to Spring. What have they noticed? Can they see anything growing from the ground? Children will use a camera to capture the changes they see.
PSED
We have circle times and on the spot opportunities to develop PSED skills. We will also be working on sharing and waiting our turn during games. Using visuals and our emotional vocabulary, we will continue to work on self-regulation and calming our bodies when we feel angry/sad/excited.
PE
Lessons will take place every Tuesday morning with our PE Staff. The children will need to come to nursery wearing their PE kits. No earrings.
HOME LEARNING
Please ensure that you are logged on to Class Dojo so that you can see what your child has been doing. Photos and messages will be posted regularly. Their learning is also displayed in the cloakroom, each child has a section showing their work and any wow speech moments. This is replaced every half term and placed in their learning journal.
A weekly newsletter about next week’s learning and vocabulary is sent out every Friday.
Stay and Plays happen every Friday for 45 mins. Parents and carers are welcome to come and join their child in sharing a book; crafts; seasonal/celebrations activities; maths/literacy/phonics workshops.
