KG2 Unit 3
Sharing the planet
Central Idea: Plants sustain life on earth and play a crucial role in our lives.
Lines of Inquiry:
- Structure and classification of plants
- Products we deliver from plants
- How plants contribute to life on earth
- Caring for plants
Learner Profile: Caring, principled
Attitudes: Respect, commitment
Skills: Self-management, research
Key Concepts: Causation, change
What Will We Learn in This Unit?
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Making relationships
I can play cooperatively and take turns with my friends.
I can take account of my friend's ideas when organising our activities.
I can show sensitivity to my friend's needs and feelings and I can form positive relationships with adults and other children.
Managing feelings and behaviour
I can talk about how my friends and myself show feelings and I can talk about my own behaviour and consequences.
I can talk about how some behaviour is unacceptable.
I can adjust my behaviour to different situations and make changes of routines in my stride.
Self-confidence and self-awareness
I can try new activities and say why I like some activities more than others.
I am confident when speaking to a familiar group about my ideas.
I can say when I do or do not need help.
Physical Development
Moving and handling
I can travel with confidence and skill around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment.
I can use simple tools effectively to make changes to materials.
I can handle tools and equipment effectively, including pencils for writing.
Health and self-care
I can eat a range of healthy foods and I understand the need for variety in food.
I can talk about the importance of good health and physical exercise and ways that we can stay healthy and safe.
I can manage my own hygiene needs successfully, including dressing and going to the toilet independently.
Communication and Language
Listening and attention, speaking and understanding
I can listen attentively in a range of situations.
I can listen to stories, actively anticipating key events and respond to what I hear with relevant comments, questions or actions.
I can listen to instructions and follow them accurately.
I can respond to instructions involving a two-part sequence.
I can answer how and why questions about my own experiences.
I can express myself effectively, show awareness of the needs of the listener.
I can begin to use past and present tenses correctly.
Literacy
Reading
I can begin to segment the sounds in simple words and blend them back together again (cvc words such as mop, top, cop).
I can begin to read words and simple sentences.
I can use words and phrases from familiar stories in my own speech.
Writing
I can continue a rhyming string (e.g. peg, leg, Meg).
I can write some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning.
I can represent some sounds correctly and in order.
Mathematics
Numbers
I can guess how many objects are in a set and then check by counting them.
Shapes, space and measure
I can begin to use mathematical names for 'solid' 3D shapes and 'flat' 2D shapes and use mathematical terms to describe them.
I can order 2 or 3 items by length or by height.
I can measure short periods of time in simple ways.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
People and Communities
I can talk about events that happen in my own life and in the lives of family members.
I know that other children don't always enjoy the same things as me and I am sensitive to this.
The World
I can look at similarities and differences in things that I observe.
I can talk about features of my immediate environment and how environments might be different from one another.
I can make observations of plants and animals and explain why some things occur and I can talk about changes.
Technology
I can complete a simple program on the computer.
I can play with age-appropriate software.
I can select and use technology for particular purposes.
Music
I can recognise quarter note and quarter rest in different songs and pieces of music.
I can identify class instruments by name, sound and shape.
Expressive Art and Design
Exploring and using media and materials
I can combine different media to create new effects.
I can select tools and techniques needed to shape, assemble and join materials.
I can safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques.
Being Imaginative
I can introduce a storyline or narrative into my play.
I can play cooperatively as part of a group to develop and act out a story.
I can use what I have learned about media and materials in original ways when representing my own ideas.