Teacher – Tina Roche
Teaching assistant – Violet Ramdass
Nursery Nurse – Abidina Kallon
Minibeasts
Reception Summer
PSED
* Discuss fear of certain minibeasts.
* Caring for the environment
and our minibeasts – set of rules
* ‘The Bad-Tempered Ladybird’ – relationships, kindness
Physical Development
P.E – Team games, parachute, ball skills, obstacle courses
* Tweezers to sort minibeasts
* Pegboard minibeast pictures
* Dry rice & water wheels, scoops, funnels.
* Build channels, dams and waterfalls
* Salt dough minibeasts
* Den building
Mathematical Development
* Doubling ladybird spots, addition, subtraction
* Measures – capacity, mass, length…
* Time – timing Activities, o’ clock – Bad-Tempered Ladybird
* Minibeast symmetry, halving, sharing
* Calculating – Minibeast hunt
* Minibeast ordering and number sequences
*3D shapes – sorting, properties, building shelters for minibeasts
Creative Development
* Outdoors minibeast hotel
* Chalk, drawing, painting spider webs,
* Minibeasts modelling…egg boxes, salt dough, collage, observational drawings
* Symmetry – Butterfly prints
* Henri MATISSE ‘The Snail’
* Minibeasts SONGS, eg. Incy Wincy Spider
* Minibeast dances (‘Flight of the Bumble Bee’ music)
* Outdoor easel for painting
* Snail spirals, creating caterpillars using circles
Knowledge and Understanding
* Minibeast hunt
– record findings using tally chart
*Minibeast Investigation Lab Role Play area
* Label body parts of minibeasts, eg. head – thorax – abdomen – antennae…
* ICT – Minibeast pictures and games
* Make a wormery
* (Live) caterpillar life cycle
* Echo shed activities – observing minibeasts, grow cress seeds – make sandwiches
* Make clay model minibeasts
* Minibeasts hotel
* www.terminix.com/ information/fun/
click and drag body parts to make a bug
Communication, Language and Literacy
* Minibeast fiction books…
– Aaaarrggh Spider
– The Crunching, Munching Caterpillar
– The Very Hungry Caterpillar
– Little Bear and the Butterflies
– Norman, The Slug with the Silly Shell
– The Bad -Tempered Ladybird
– Super worm
– What the Ladybird Heard
* Minibeast NON-FICTION books…
– Snails non-fiction book
– Label parts of minibeasts
– Make minibeast zig zag books
– Minibeast guess who – ‘What am I?’
– Mad About Minibeats