Our topic this half-term is 'Fun at the seaside!'

Within this topic we will enquire into: 

• Beaches
• Under the sea
• Sun protection
• Postcards
• Reduce, recycle and reuse
• Pirates
• Summer

Our key questions are:

• What can we wear to stay safe in the sun?
• How did pirates travel?
• What creatures live under the sea?
• What do people do at the beach?
• How can we keep the ocean clean?

Root knowledge:

• To know the basics of sun safety
• To know some sea creatures
• To know pirate travelled on ships
• To know activities that people do at the beach
• To know ways to keep the ocean clean

Our Talk 4 Write texts are:

• The three little fish and the big bad shark
• The story of pirate Tom

Texts to share and enjoy:

• The rainbow fish -Marcus Pfister
• At the beach -Rolland Harvey
• Somebody swallowed Stanley -Sarah Roberts
• Don’t disturb the pirate -Rhiannon Findlay
• Commotion in the ocean -Giles Andreae

Our core rhymes are:

• The big ship sails on the ally ally oh
• Bobby Shafto
• There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

We will learn the following Makaton signs:

• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Family
• Friend