All posts by Nikki Wims

W/c 12th May 2025 – Jack & the Beanstalk

  • Read and retell Jack and the Beanstalk.
  • Themed tuff tray.
  • Measure giant’s footprints with cubes.
  • Draw around and measure our own feet.
  • Order the story in sequence.
  • Grown bean in 3 conditions in key groups.
  • Play shopping game.
  • Throw balls in target and record how many.
  • Build beanstalks with blocks and count.
  • Build castles from magnatiles in groups.
  • Create foam “clouds” in water tray.
  • Use tweezers to find beans in soil.
  • Beanstalk hopscotch on playground.
  • Monitor and care for our seeds.
  • Fill pots with correct amount of water.
  • Thread leaves on string to make beanstalk.

W/c 5th May 2025 – How did we grow?

  • Songs and rhymes – Lulu’s garden, Ruby plants a reddish, Mary Mary.
  • Non-fiction books about growing, plant life cycle.
  • Role play picnic outside.
  • Grow sunflowers.
  • Café area near mud kitchen.
  • Add apples to the tree using dice.
  • Small world farm.
  • Make vegetables in play dough.
  • Tuff spot with compost, trowels, pots.
  • Draw fruit and vegetables with chalk.
  • Use still life technique to plant flowers.
  • Match phonics sounds to vegetables.
  • Vegetable hunt in the sand.
  • Use cubes to measure different vegetables.
  • Look at vegetables with magnifying glass.

W/C 28th April – Superworm

  • Read the story Superworm with props.
  • Superworm tuff tray.
  • Find worms in soil using tweezers.
  • Consider learnt minibeast facts.
  • Use tools to dig in soil in the garden.
  • Match the bug to the description.
  • Complete pattern on the worms.
  • Sort the worms by size.
  • Create recipes in the mud kitchen.
  • Make home for worms we find.
  • Use string to make marks with paint.
  • Move like bugs using ribbons.
  • Roll playdough to make worms.
  • Make worms from loose parts.
  • Thread pony beads to make worms.

W/c 31st March 2025 – Easter / New Life

  • Talk about Easter including traditions.
  • Share Easter stories.
  • Make up stories with Easter props.
  • Follow positional clues to find the chick.
  • Fill the eggs using pipettes and water.
  • Easter dot to dot pictures.
  • Egg hunt.
  • Easter tuff tray.
  • Easter craft.
  • Wash ducks with sponges.
  • Match phonic eggs in water.
  • Ball rolling in paint.
  • Make marks in wet soil.
  • Move our bodies like animals.

Happy Easter!

W/c 24th March 2025 – A Squash and a Squeeze

  • Listen to A Squash and a Squeeze, Through the Jungle, Old Macdonald.
  • Home area with pets.
  • Play duck duck goose, farmers in his den, musical statues.
  • Copy the pattern on the eggs.
  • Lotto sounds game.
  • Hear rhyming words in story.
  • Guess what animal is in the bag.
  • Sort the animals and compare the amounts.
  • Make towers and knock down with beanbags.
  • Build homes for animals with different shapes.
  • Learn about animal life cycles.
  • Sensory squeezing and squashing.
  • Clap syllables for animal names.
  • Animals need a bath in the water tray.
  • Follow the frog spawn.

W/C 17th March 2025 – Growing / Babies

  • What do babies need?
  • How do we develop over time?
  • Read stories with puppets.
  • Home area – take on different family roles.
  • Finger print with ink.
  • Create marks with pens on vehicles.
  • Create marks using vehicles in tray with sand.
  • Farm small world with baby animals.
  • Bath babies with sponges, clothes, towels.
  • Compare heights.
  • Listening game for movements.
  • Busy book with fastenings.
  • Build vehicle with large blocks and tyres.
  • Sensory play.
  • Flavoured play dough.
  • Make loose part people in sand.
  • Happyland village.
  • Yoga.
  • Thread cotton reels.

W/c 10th March 2025 – Tiger Who Came to Tea

  • Talk about who you would like to invite for tea.
  • Home area – prepping a meal.
  • Set up a tea party – think about why we have parties.
  • Plant cress.
  • Orange & black shaving foam.
  • Write in loose tea leaves.
  • Germ experiment.
  • Shape monster.
  • Transfer sugar cubes to tea cup.
  • 1 minute movement challenge.
  • Make tiger tail with bead pattern.
  • Orange playdough.
  • Animal songs in the water tray.
  • Make cakes in mud kitchen.
  • Tea party in the sand.
  • Environmental sounds game.