Topic Overview
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Cycle 1 - What amazing things can we do now? (Myself) | Cycle 1- Why are they afraid of the big, bad ….? | Cycle 1 - What can we discover about our world from Eric Carle? |
Myself Babies Family Zoo Animals-Dear Zoo Farm Animals Harvest Christmas
Focus Books- Titch, Dear Zoo, Christmas story, Peepo!, Farm 1,2,3, Oh dear!, Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do you Hear?, Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you See? | Traditional Tales-Three Little Pigs Cookery Books (making porridge, biscuits) Growing (Beans) Rhyming Stories
Focus Books- The 3 Little Pigs, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Gingerbread Man, Cookery books, The Bean Diary, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Enormous Turnip | Eric Carle books Life Cycle of a Butterfly Day/Night Time/Transport past- to present Minibeasts
Focus Books- The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Bad Tempered Ladybird, The Very Busy Spider, Mini beast encyclopaedia
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| Cycle 2 - What can we learn from Elmer and his friends? (where he lives, climate, developmental stages) | Cycle 2 - What will we find out on our adventures with the bears? | Cycle 2 - What can we learn about our world? |
Elmer Stories Elephants Jungle Animals Colours Weather Myself My day Positional Language Around the world stories / information Harvest Christmas
Focus Books - Elmer, Elmer’s friends, Elmer and the wind, Elmer and the snow | Bear Stories Space Materials- naming and exploring Time Old and New
Focus Books- We’re All Going on a Bear Hunt, Teddy Bear’s Picnic, Old Bear stories, Peace At Last, Whatever Next, Non-Fiction books on Space | Mick Inkpen Pets Floating and Sinking Mini beasts Life cycle of a frog Trains-Time/Transport-past to present
Focus Books- The Blue Balloon, Penguin Small, Kipper’s Toybox, Kipper’s Birthday, The Great Pet Shop, Billy’s Beetle, The Train Ride
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