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EYFS Medium Term Planning Enhancing & Extending Spaces for Play Term: Spring PLC: What can I see at night?
Learning & Development Focus/Objective Resources
PSED

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1. Continue to be interested, excited and motivated to learn. SEAL Syllabus:Getting on and Falling Out
2. Be confident to try new activities, initiate ideas and speak in a familiar group. See separate planning sheet
3. Maintain attention, concentrate, and sit quietly when appropriate.
Work as part of a group or class, taking
4. Have a developing awareness of their own needs, views and feelings, and be sensitive to the needs, views and
turns and sharing fairly.
feelings of others.
5. Have a developing respect for their own cultures and beliefs and those of other people To think of ways to sort things out when
6. Respond to significant experiences, showing a range of feelings when appropriate. we dont agree.
7. Form good relationships with adults and peers.
8. Work as part of a group or class, taking turns and sharing fairly, understanding that there needs to be agreed To express feelings when angry.
values and codes of behaviour for groups of people, including adults and children, to work together harmoniously.
9. Understand what is right, what is wrong and why. To make myself feel better when angry.
10. Consider the consequences of their words and actions for themselves and others.
To co-operate as part of a group and take
11. Dress and undress independently and manage their own personal hygiene.
turns.
12. Select and use activities and resources independently.
13. Understand that people have different needs, views, cultures and beliefs, that need to be treated with respect.
14. Understand that they can expect others to treat their needs, views, cultures and beliefs with respect.
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EYFS Medium Term Planning Enhancing & Extending Spaces for Play Term: Spring PLC: What can I see at night?
Possible experiences, opportunities, activities inside and outside Resources Evaluation & Next Steps

LC1 and Circle time activities weekly (See SEAL scheme) Images of astronauts
LC2: What Role-play taking turns, sharing, cooperating as part of a group. Children to agree on a theme for the Resources and area for
can we find role-play area: Space station, rocket, moon. How will we change it? Set up an area in the classroom role play see opposite,
beyond the for role playing in a space station/ shuttle. Include some of the following resources to enhance role include also: computer,
sky? Whats playing experiences: walkie talkies, tuff cameras, star charts, space log books, binoculars, telescopes. telephone, aerials,
in Space and Encourage children to take on the roles of people who talk to astronauts on missions in space. (PS2, antennae, clipboards
how will we 7) Resources for exploratory
get there? Sharing and taking turns - resource box: Torches, mirrors, silver foil, astronauts etc. (PS8) box/ KUW area of the
What does an astronaut do? Explore images of an astronauts clothing. Use the images to explain classroom: torches, light
what each part does. Explore materials used for clothes, helmets. (KUW link) Decorate card cut into box, electrical
the shape of moon boots and support the chn in selecting appropriate resources and materials to components, mirrors and
create props and costumes for them to use in role play. (PS1) reflection.
LC3: Which Circle time activities weekly (See SEAL scheme) Globe
planet do we Discus ways to take care of the Earth such as not dropping litter, turning of taps, recycling and
live on? switching off lights. (PS9) Satellite images and non-
What makes Look at a globe. Show the children that the Earth is a sphere. Find places on the globe that the fiction texts about Earth
Earth children have visited. (PS1, 3)
special?
LC4: What Circle time activities weekly (See SEAL scheme) PPT interactive text
would it be Talk about people who help us by working at night. Why do they work at night? Make thank you cards people who help us at
like to visit in the writing area. (PS3) night
the moon? Show chn the Space Pictures. Focus on the ones of the Moon and the Earth from the Moon. Talk
about what the Moon really looks like, also what it must have been like to really stand on the moon. Video of First moon
Play voice of Neil Armstrong /clip of the actual event. Ask chn, What would you have said if you had landing available on NASA
been the first human ever to walk on the moon? Chn write their suggestions and illustrate these for site
a fantastic display. In 1969 people gathered around radios & TVs, listening to the amazing thing. Neil
Armstrong took his first step on the Moon. Many people can remember exactly where they were
when it happened. Chn take turns to tell the grp about a memory they have of a big event (not
something that happened to them but to others.) Chn must pay attention and listen to the speaker.
Talk about what it must have felt like to be the first man to walk in space. Enjoy role playing the
first space walk. (PS4, 8)
LC5: What Circle time activities weekly (See SEAL scheme) Images and non-fiction
are stars? Show the chn images of stars. Invite chn to select materials to make own constellation pictures on texts of stars/
Which star A4 black paper. (PS1, 12) constellations
is the most Encourage chn to search for stories and poems about stars when accessing the book area and during A4 black paper
important library sessions. Enjoy sharing these during story time sessions. PS3, 7)
for our Explain that the sun is a star, a giant ball of very hot gas. Talk about the importance of the Sun for
planet? providing heat and light on Earth. (PS3) Images and non-fiction
Briefly recap on sun safety (What do chn remember about this from Autumn PLC?) Look through texts about the Sun
books to find characters that are sensibly wearing sunhats and clothing with sleeves. (PS9, 10)
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EYFS Medium Term Planning Enhancing & Extending Spaces for Play Term: Spring PLC: What can I see at night?
LC6: What Circle time activities weekly (See SEAL scheme) Animated text see CLL
would it be Link to CLL animated text, Baby and the Rocket: Show this story again. Look at the part where the plan
like to live plant gives Baby a seed. What will Baby have to do to grow it? Discuss how plants as well as animals
on a need love and care. Look at how the plants talk. People say that if you talk to plants they grow
different better. Chn draw the plant they think Babys seed will grow into. (PS4)
planet?
LC7: What Circle time activities weekly (See SEAL scheme) Star for each child in the
would an Links to CLL text Lauras Star: Re-read Lauras Star. Discuss when we feel lonely / when we feel as group
alien/ UFO if someone does not understand. Would we like a star to talk to? Provide each child with a star. Ask
look like? chn to think of 5 things, 1 for each point, they could talk to their star about. They can write a word
or draw a simple picture to indicate each thing, e.g. a ball to indicate football, a plate to indicate
food, etc. Animated text: Thad gets
Links to CLL text Thad gets to the Moon: Turn to page 6 in Thad Gets to the Moon where it tells us to the Moon
how sad he is. Click on asterix on the controller. Ask chn if they have ever felt sad? Explain that
everyone is sad sometimes. Talk about the types of things that make us sad. Can chn remember a
time they felt sad that they would like to talk about? (Be sensitive to chn who may not want to share
sad experiences.)
LC8: The final week of our Space Topic, chn prepare a Space Party and write invitations for their Q Pootle 5 by Nick
Reflection parents and siblings to join us. They also write recipes for some of the Space Party food, having Butterworth
and read recipes and understood how to write lists and simple instructions.
Presentation Talk to chn about what you have to do when you want to have a party. You have to prepare invitations,
to decorate the room, to plan and make the food, to think about what games we will play and to
collect or make anything that is needed for these, etc. Discuss all the different tasks and share Resources as necessary
these out amongst the different groups in the class. Point out that it is not fair if some people do from chns planning
lots of work and others dont do much talk about how we should share work fairly. (PS4, 7) suggestions.
Provide old T-shirts, to decorate with fabric pens/crayons, for dressing up as UFOs, aliens and
astronauts at the space party. (PS2)