Our IPC unit called 'Transport' has wheeled us to the end of the calendar year.
Through some of the following activities we worked towards the IPC objectives and strands.

Independence and Interdependence

The children enjoyed our guided observations of cars, a camper van, a normal, electric and folding bike, an ambulance, a hoverboard and an electric scooter. They loved our entrypoint where we experienced and compared a tram, train ad bus as well as our trip to the bike repair shop and the visit from the World Cyclist. All of this connected their learning at school to the wider world. The children have been collaborative in a variety of writing activities, and in making their own carriages for a rainbow class train, or during activities when creating long train tracks across our two rooms. We also competed during a maths board game and a shape quiz. Furthermore we have participated in school activities: everyone sang and danced to our "Jump in my car song" at assembly and we are reciting our new Journey poem at the school's winter show in addition to the rhythmic song we have been practising with Mrs Aygul in music!

Communicating

This unit offered many opportunities for maths: we carried out a simple traffic survey and visualised our findings. We estimated and measured how far toy cars travelled after emerging from a descending tube tunnel and recorded our findings. We practised number bonds to 10 or 20 and did simple calculations to see how many passengers were on the bus after some got on and some got off. As well as spotting and 'reading' traffic signs, we investigated which ones were symmetrical and looked at some simple and more complex shapes.

We also did a lot of writing, in the role play area they were able to add information to bus and train tickets and we wrote descriptive sentences about the different modes of transport we observed.
The golden learners are reading books, practising sight words, forming letters more accurately and using their diary writing experience to take a leading role in writing the daily sentences in our class book.           
The blue learners have increased their confidence in their writing movements and are blending and even writing some words with the sounds they have learnt.
As usual, there was a lot of interaction, including in the station role play area, with our visitors and on our trips.

Exploring

Throughout the unit, the children were encouraged to think logically: for example, we made and wrote comparisons based on how children get to school, or when we sorted different vehicles. We also looked at sinking and floating, again estimating before testing, in relation to boats and Sinterklaas. The children also had to solve 'challenges' when they put together their models of train carriages or when they interpreted the challenging spatial representations, such as maps, when they played smart games or when they reassembled the binomial cubes. In addition, many of the more independent activities required logical thinking, such as making traffic signs, a lollipop plane, word searches, puzzles and transport-related shape games.

Healthy Living

As a part of learning how to keep ourselves safe from harm we discussed road safety and the role of the emergency services.