My Family, My Town

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Communication, Language and Literacy
Numeracy

• Number recognition looking at house numbers, car
  registration, telephone and bus numbers
• Counting people who live in your house
• Counting children in the class
• Data handling class eye/ hair colour
• When is your birthday?
• Timeline for a day

• To discuss people who live in my house and who
  are in my family
• Writing our names including surname
• Looking at shop logos and signage
• Role play Shops and Home Corner
• Discussing things I like to do
• Share a book at bedtime

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Learning to use the unit, making friends and
  learning names
• Roles and responsibilities in my family who
  does what?
• Special traditions in my house

Creative Development
My Family, My Town

• Make the Beekeeper from the town centre
• Make the roof for the home-corner house
• Sound walk
• Self-portraits
• Street scene junk modelling

• Physical Development
• Using scissors, pencils, crayons, paints
• PE
• What can I do with my body? How far can I jump?
• Can you build a house?
• Can you climb up and down stairs using alternate
  feet?
• Can I put my own coat on?

• How to help at home
• Help your child with the Beeston Hunt and discuss
  what you can see.
• Ask your child to help prepare a meal and set the
  table?
• Talk to the children about the family look at
  photographs
• Encourage children to put their own coat on by
  themselves.
• Count with the children as they climb stairs/
  steps.

• Knowledge and Understanding of the World
• What is there in Beeston? Sponsored Beeston Photo
  Hunt
• Looking at maps paper, Google
• Where do I live draw a route to school
• Who looks after you?
• Rooms in my house where do things go?
• Family tree