Throughout this block, we will focus on developing the children’s early reading, communication, and mark-making skills while exploring nutrition, food choices, and healthy habits. Children will enjoy storytelling, songs and rhymes, and vocabulary-building activities that introduce new words in a fun and meaningful way. Hands-on experiences such as role-play, drawing, and mark-making will help children express their ideas and reinforce positive attitudes toward healthy eating.

Development matters:

• Make comments and share their own ideas.

• Repeat words and phrases from familiar stories. 

Key vocabularies:

• Nutrition, fit, healthy, unhealthy, ill, vitamins, strength, balanced, essential 

In block 4, We will be focusing on the concept of size, weight and quantity.  Reading stories about big and small and comparing heavier and lighter animals and their habitats will spark comprehensive discussion and encourage critical thinking related to these mathematical concepts. By exploring the animal world children will learn to count and categorize basic animal group.

 
Development matters

• Compare amounts, saying "lots, more" or "same". 

• Compare sizes, weights etc. Using gestures and language - "bigger/little/smaller", "tall, heavy."

Key vocabulary 

Difference, Compare, Heavy, Light, Enormous, Wide, Narrow, Altogether, Separate 

Our primary focus in Block 4 will be exploring the animal kingdom. Children will engage in various activities to the diverse world of animals, such as participating in a safari animal hunt, dress up, puppet play, and many other interactive play sessions. We will investigate similarities and differences in relation to different creatures and we will demonstrate through discussions in class. These activities will help enhance the children's knowledge of the world around them.

Development Matters

• Explore and respond to various natural phenomena in their environment and during trips.

• Investigate the natural world around them.

Key Vocabulary

Mammals, cluster, herd, wool, foal, calf, safari, wilderness, binoculars

In block 4, the children will be inspired by creative activities such as crafting, interactive storytelling, role play sessions, and encouraging imaginative, expressive play. Children will have the opportunity to discover the natural world through activities such as interactive virtual safaris and outdoor scavenger hunts.

Development Matters

• Explore their voicesand enjoy making sounds.

• Begin to develop complex stories using small world equipment like animal sets.

Key Vocabulary

Sprinkle, Rip, Dribble, Antlers, Vibrant, Rare, Extinct, Spread.

In order to support the children's development of gross motor skills and coordination, we will provide opportunities for them to observe animals move and imitate them through story time, nursery rhymes, and songs. Activities and games that include pretending to be different animals will promote balance and flexibility while making their learning experience enjoyable. We will also continue to work on fine motor development by engaging in a range of activities, such as mark-making and playdough.

Development Matters

• Gradually gain control of their whole body through continual practice of large movements, such as waving, kicking, rolling, crawlling and walking.

• Fit them into spaces, like tunnels, dens, and large boxes, and move around in them.

Key Vocabulary 

Hop,  Skip, Rotate, Twist, Bounce, Twirl, Crouch, Slither, Stomp, Chomp, Pounce, Gallop, Waddle.

In block 3, we will  encourage the children to adopt healthy eating habits and practice positive social behavior. We will focus on turn taking  and using manners when interacting with others. This links to our ongoing learning around self -regulation and emotions. learning to negotiate within the classroom environment without conflict.

Development Matters

Be increasingly independent in meeting their own care needs

Making healthy choices about the food , drink , activity ,and toothbrushing

Key Vocabulary

Nutrition , diet, protein , share , polite , respect , kindness , patience , hygiene , cooperation, gratitude , empathy , confidence , negotiate .

During Block 4, the children will have the opportunity to explore "The Animal Kingdom" through a range of exciting and engaging activities. We will focus on vocabulary development and expressive language skills as they learn the names of different animals, their characteristics, behaviours, and habits. Through exploration, we hope to encourage a love for the natural world and to spark the children's curiosity in relation to creatures. Our story, song, and rhyme sessions will also focus on discovering more about animals.

Development Matters

• Listen to simple stories and understand what is happening with the help of pictures.

• Identify familiar objects and properties for practitioners when they are described.

Key Vocabulary

Mammals, Hibernate, Explore, Adventure, Expedition, Endangered, Habitat, Nocturnal, Prey.

Suggested Home Activities :

Suggested Home Activities

• Go on a bug hunt with your family in your garden or in the park.

• Act like your favourite animal using the sounds and movements that they make.

• If you have a pet animal, post a picture with him/her. if you don't own one, colour a picture of your favourite pet.