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Why is the Wii more fun than Grandma and Grandad’s old toys? Year 1
Week 1: Who will win the wii challenge?
Week 2: What is your favourite toy? Why? (idenfy toys that push and pull)
Week 3: What was on Grandma and Grandad’s birthday list?
Week 4: How can you make a moving toy? Design a toy awards.
Week 5: Which toy will you be in toy story?
Week 6: Reflecon: Would you choose your toys before your Grandparents’
toys?
Hook for Learning:
As Mathematicians can we…?
Wow day— Set up wii console in the
classroom and invite grandparents to
come in and challenge the children on
different games.
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Children keep a record of points accumulated by children
and grandparents leading to graph work.
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Money—buying toys from the role play toy shop.
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Days of the week and me—O’Clock and Half past.
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Measure using non-standard measures.
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Doubling and halving numbers/measures.
Trip to Portland Basin.
Dressing up day as a toy.
As Thinkers can we…?
As Scientists can we…?
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Forces topic—Idenfy different forces used to acvate toys.
Think about the difference between
old and new toys.
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Talk about why things happen and how things work.
Think about how toys move.
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Invesgate which material will help the car to travel the furthest.
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Evaluate and give reasons—How have you made it a fair test?
As Talkers can we…?
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Sort toys—What have you sorted them into and why?
Explain how toys move.
Explain the features of our favourite
toys and give reasons why.
Use vocabulary that reflects the
breadth of their experiences.
As Historians/Geographer's can we…?
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Comparing toys that you played with and your parents/grandparents played with.
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Understanding that technology is a new concept and
Using Technology can we…?
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that their parents/grandparents would not have had
what we had.
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Look at different toys in different countries.
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As Artists and Musicians can we…?
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Observe the work of Escher and compare his pencil drawings to the work of Beatrix Po8er. How does colour change
a picture? Which do you prefer? Why?
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Describe what we see and like in the work of another
arst.
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Design and make a moving toy.
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Perform dances related to toys coming to life. (The Nut
Cracker, Coppelia)
As Writers can we…?
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Label items in a toy shop.
vourite toy.
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Write a list for Grandad.
To use different features of a video cam-
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Write an adventure story. What does our toy do when we
are at school? (Toy story clips).
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Write a recount of our trip to the museum.
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Write quesons to ask grandparents and then interview
them.
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Write a set of instrucons.
Create an advertisement for their fa-
era and capture moving images.
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Use the Wii and Ipads.