Autumn

Spring

Summer

Cycle 1 - What amazing things can we do now? 

(Myself) 

• 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 

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