1, 2, 3, 4, 5!

Personal Social and Emotional Development

Read The Rainbow Fish. Discuss how Rainbow Fish made the other fishes feel. How would it make you feel? Do you think what he said was kind or unkind? Talk about ways we can be kind.

Communication and Language

in group time share the nursery rhymes we know. Have a surprise box with plastic sea creatures, shells … give some clues and children can guess what the object might be.

Literacy

Exploring Rhyme. Texts. The Fish who could Wish, Shark in the Dark, Commotion in the Ocean.

Mathematics

Recognising numerals. Stick some number labels on plastic fish and get children to make a number line with adult support. Play the magnetic fishing game and support children to recognise numbers as they catch the fish.

Understanding the World

Find out about life under the sea. Observe shells and seaweed. Discuss what they feel like. Discover why fish can breathe under water.

Physical Development

Use scissors and small tools to cut out some fish for our aquarium display. Move to music like a fish.

Expressive Art and Design

Listen to Sans Saens Aquarium music. (Carnival of the Animals) Can you imagine fish swimming? Is the music soft or loud? Does the music sound like water and the sea? Can you imagine being a fish in the ocean? Make some circle patterns with biro pens on foil fish to represent scales. (For our aquarium display)

Focused Vocabulary

Fish,  rod,  ocean,  gills,  kindness,  imagine,  pretend,  magnets, clue, one,  two, three, four,  five …