W/c 12th January 2026 – Arctic

12 Jan 2026Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Compare what UK winter and Arctic are like.
• Fishing for the correct amount of fish.
• Introduce new vocabulary: iceberg, freeze, melt.
• Measure polar bears with cubes.
• Make an igloo: use various materials.
• Penguin waddling to the beat.
• Shaving foam marks.
• Use squeezy glue to draw snowflakes.
• Frozen items in ice cubes.
• Feed the penguin.
• Pegging out mittens.
• Cut paper snowflakes.
• Blubber experiment: How do animals keep warm?
• Ice cube painting.
• Cloud dough

W/c 8th December 25 – Christmas Story

11 Dec 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Story retell with props or puppets.
• Singing Christmas songs and rhymes.
• Santa’s Workshop – present wrapping.
• Christmas craft.
• Christmas music and movement: float like a snowflake, act like a reindeer.
• Snowball relay races.
• Sort decorations by size, shape or colour.
• Paperchain garlands.
• Tracing Christmas shapes.
• Create Christmas lists.
• Build Winter villages with blocks.
• Melting experiments.

W/c 1st December 25 – Gingerbread Man: Baker

1 Dec 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Role play bakery with aprons, hats, bowls etc.
• Cottage themed home corner.
• Bake playdough Gingerbread.
• Gingerbread man tuff tray.
• Gingerbread man hunt.
• Scented ginger / cinnamon dough.
• Predictions: What will happen if we get a gingerbread man wet?
• Bake Gingerbread men – observe changes.
• Count buttons on gingerbread people.
• Positional language: where is the Gingerbread Man?
• Have races on the playground.
• Use tweezers to pick up buttons / pom poms.
• Build a bridge from large construction.

W/c 24th November 25 – When I grow up / Occupations

23 Nov 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Occupation dress up corner.
• Artist studio-colour mixing palettes.
• Menu writing on chalkboards.
• Finger tracing letters in oats.
• Bulb planting and watering.
• Firefighter spray bottles at targets.
• Small world construction area tuff spot.
• Place pom pom decorations on cakes with tweezers.
• Whisking bubbles.
• Nuts and bolts tray.
• Thread leaves on pipe cleaners.
• Bandage wrapping on soft toys.
• Measure dough snakes with cubes.
• Balance scale – compare tool weights.
• Discuss safety equipment for jobs.
• Roll the dice and play the correct beats.

W/c 17th November 25 – Whatever Next / Space

23 Nov 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read Whatever Next – talk about the Author, encourage children to retell it.
• Learn new vocabulary: space, rocket, astronaut, moon, planet, orbit, solar system.
• Role play: astronaut base with space rocket.
• Make rocket models from boxes.
• Create solar system using round sponges and paint.
• Use instruments to create space sounds.
• Moon dust’ salt and mark making cards.
• Collect stars from hair gel with tweezers.
• Scoop floating planets from water tray.
• Create moon craters in the sand with hidden meteor rocks.
• Rocket races on the playground.
• Thread planet beads to make solar system.
• Sing 5 little men in a flying saucer, Twinkle Twinkle little star, Plants round the sun.

W/c 10th Nov – Peace at Last – Night time sounds

9 Nov 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about our bedtime routines.
• Read Peace at Last story.
• Talk about how Mr Bear is feeling.
• Create a calm, cosy, comfort corner.
• Match patterned pyjamas.
• Paint a moonlit sky using sponges & glitter.
• Make faces using loose parts.
• Build bear beds using blocks.
• Gentle stretching and sleepy yoga.
• Make bedtime soup in the mud kitchen.
• Learn new facts about nocturnal animals.
• Talk about people who work at night.
• Listening game – what’s that night time sound.
• Sequence the story.
• Bedroom role play area.

W/c 3rd Nov 2025 – Fireworks – Light & Sound

3 Nov 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Set up “fireworks night” area with pretend snacks, tickets and glow sticks.
• Talk about how we feel during fireworks.
• Create “friendship flames”.
• Play “What’s that sound?” matching game.
• Use storybooks for sequencing and recall: Billy’s fireworks night, Bernie Sparks etc.
• Build a “bonfire” with sticks.
• Make fireworks pictures outside using different techniques.
• Discuss why we see fireworks.
• Make simple sound shakers.
• Floating fireworks – using coloured oil.
• Explore light and dark using torches.
• Use Jackson Pollock painting technique.
• Create shape rockets with 2D shapes.
• Threading glow bead necklaces.