W/c 9th March 26 – Goldilocks & the Three Bears

9 Mar 2026Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Share our knowledge of the story and retell it
• Explore the characters feelings at different times in story
• Create textured bear fur paintings
• Make porridge in the mud kitchen
• Sort the bears by different sizes
• Porridge oats Sensory play
• Subsitizing to 3
• Match the sizes using beds, chairs, bowls, bears
• Large story maps
• Cottage themed role play
• Draw circles and turn them into bear faces
• Build bear caves in the sand pit
• Listening Walk outside to hear natural sounds eg birds
• Make beds using construction toys
• Story basket describing textures

W/c 2nd March 2026 – Little Red Riding Hood

4 Mar 2026Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Role play caring for poorly Grandma
• Build beds using 2d and 3d shapes
• 1 minute challenge eg star jumps, hops
• Whats the time Mr Wolf
• Build a cottage using large blocks
• Play Kim’s Game using food items
• Create trees using natural items
• Make a map for Red Riding Hood to follow
• Spray away the footprints on the floor
• Talk about kind and unkind characters in the story
• Make Grandma’s cottage role play
• Make soup and cake in the mud kitchen for Grandma
• Bingo dabbas with pictures
• Weaving on basket

W/c 23rd February 26 – The Three Little Pigs

26 Feb 2026Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Use scissors to cut paper and paper straws
• Act out the story
• Retell the story using our own memory of it
• Create playdough pigs
• Footprint painting pigs
• Design houses
• Make houses from lolly sticks
• Build with wet and dry sand and decide which works best
• Build houses and use fan to blow them down
• Three pigs Sensory story with instruments
• Talk about making our home safe
• Play what’s the time Mr wolf
• Animal sound listening games
• Bianca with pipe cleaners for threading
• Blowing paint with straws
• Mixing colours to make pink

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