Our topic this half term is 'Ticket to ride'

Within this topic we will enquire into: 

• Around the town
• Types of transport
• Road safety
• Maps
• Community helpers

Our key questions are:

• What do you see in our town?
• What should we do when we cross the road?
• How do people get to places?
• Why do we use different vehicles?
• Can you name some vehicles you see in our town?

Root knowledge:

• To know that in our town we see houses, shops and cars.
• To know that people use cars, buses, bikes and trains to get to places
• To know that different vehicles are used for different kinds of travel
• To know that when we cross the road, we stop look and listen

Our key texts are:

• Mr Gumpy’s motor car -John Birningham
• The runaway train -Benedict Blathway
• You can’t take an elephant on the bus -Patricia Cleveland-Peck

Our core rhymes are:

• The wheels on the bus
• Row, row, row your boat
• Down at the station     

We will learn the following Makaton signs:

• Cold
• Hot
• Clean
• Dirty
• Again
• Tidy up