Animals including Humans
- Opportunities for children to talk about what they have seen outside, e.g. plants and animals.
- Name and describe some plants and animals they see.
- Recognise familiar plants and animals.
- Share non-fiction texts that have an insight into contrasting environments.
Seasonal Changes
- Draw attention to weather and seasonal changes.
- Opportunities to note and record weather.
- Share books about changing seasons.
- Know how animals behave differently as the seasons change.
Plants
- Opportunities for children to talk about what they have seen outside, e.g. plants and animals.
- To know what a plant is and where to find them.
- Name and describe some plants and animals they see.
- Recognise familiar plants and animals, e.g. grass, daisies, dandelions, clovers.
- Plant seeds exploring and recording how they grow and what they need.
- Name basic parts of a plant (leaf, petal, stem and roots).
- Understand what happens if they don’t look after plants.
Living Things and their Habitats
- Explore and discuss the natural world using their senses.
- Opportunities for children to talk about what they have seen in and around our school grounds, e.g. plants and animals.
- Name and describe some plants & animals they see.
- Recognise familiar plants and animals.
- Identify the similarities and differences between animals in our local area and the Arctic.
- Share non-fiction texts that have an insight into contrasting environments.
- Carry out focused observations of the natural world.
Forces
- Observe and interact with natural processes such as: ice melting, the effect of magnets on different materials.
- Understand the words float and sink whilst exploring how objects move in water.
Light
- Observe and interact with natural processes such as: light travelling through transparent material, how a shadow is formed.
Sound
- Observe and interact with natural processes such as: sound causing vibrations.
- Explore loud, quiet and the different sounds different instruments make through continuous provision and music lessons.
- Explore how sounds can be changed.
Everyday Materials
- Observe and interact with natural processes such as: ice melting, floating and sinking.
- Children explore a range of materials and investigate the suitability of these for different purposes, comparing them and assessing how successful they would be.
- They will look at what happens to change some of these materials.