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King Edward Primary School and Nursery Excitement + Determination = Success

Spring 1 The world around us

Our topic this half term is 'The world around us.'

Within this topic we will enquire into: 

  • Animals around the world
  • Animals that live in a hot habitat
  • Animals that live in a cold habitat
  • Different types of weather 
  • Winter 

 

Our key questions: 

  • Where do animals of the world like to live? 
  • What animals live in a hot habitat? 
  • What animals live in a cold habitat? 
  • How do polar bears keep warm? 
  • Is the weather always the same? 

 

Talk for write texts: 

  • We're going on a polar bear hunt 
  • The elephant and the zebra 

 

Texts to share and enjoy:

  • Handa's surprise 
  • One day on our blue planet in the Savannah 
  • One day on our blue planet in the Antarctic 
  • A dot in the snow
  • The ugly five 

 

Our core rhymes are:

  • Down in the jungle
  • Alice the camel
  • 5 little monkeys 

 

We will learn the following makaton signs:

  • Celebrate 
  • Excited 
  • Water -drink of
  • Jumper
  • Family 
  • Friends
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