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.