W/c 2nd February 26 – Healthy Foods / Cooking

2 Feb 2026Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about our favourite foods, likes and dislikes.
• Café role play expanded – healthy foods.
• Gross motor obstacle course.
• Using child-safe knives to prepare fruit and vegetables.
• Number songs – 5 currant buns, 5 red apples.
• Pitta pizza, spread tomato puree , add toppings.
• Blend fruit to make smoothies.
• Food collage using magazines.
• Write shopping lists.
• Use magnifying glass to look inside fruit and vege.
• Germ experiment with glitter.
• Which fruits float or sink?
• Where does food come from?
• Trace fruit outlines.
• Compare fruit quantities.
• Do exercise – observe effects on our bodies.
• Threading pasta / cereal.

W/c 26th January 2026 – Dentists

26 Jan 2026Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Role play dentist surgery.
• Talk about feelings associate with dentist checks.
• Healthy eating cafe.
• Craft tooth fairy crowns.
• Paint self portrait with smiley mouth.
• Toothbrush painting.
• Learn and use dentist vocabulary.
• Talk about germs and hygiene.
• Elastic band braces board.
• Care for dolls and teddies teeth.
• Hole punch tooth x-rays.
• Pull teeth from crocodiles mouth.
• Fruit kebabs.
• Mint scented foam tray.
• Bury and brush dirty objects in sand tray.
• Warm water toothbrushing.

W/c 19th January 2026 – Animals In Hot Weather

22 Jan 2026Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read animal stories : We’re going on a lion hunt, Dear Zoo, Handa’s Surprise.
• Compare the lives of animals from Arctic regions and those who live in hot climates.
• Sing animal songs: Old Macdonald, 3 cheeky monkeys, Down in the Jungle.
• Paint pictures of wild animals from hot countries.
• Fruit printing.
• Paper basket weaving.
• Play “What animal is hiding”.
• Sort the animals and their fruits from the story Handa’s surprise.
• Obstacle course:move like animals.
• Choose the animal’s initial sound and write it in the sand.
• Still life watercolour fruit painting.
• Small world Savanna tuff scene.
• Dance to African drum music.
• Weighing and measuring fruit.
• Sort animals by their diets.
• Fruit threading.

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.