W/c 4th/11th December – Christmas & Hanukkah

8 Dec 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about the meaning of Christmas
• Read stories with Christmas theme
• Hanukkah – play dreidel game
• Christmas wrapping station
• Festive home area
• Christmas crafts
• Make handprint menorah
• Use tweezers to add pom poms to trees
• Peppermint scented water tray
• Use magnet wand to move magnetic objects in jug
• Decorate dreidels using pipettes to colour mix
• move like different festive items
• Listen to rhythm stories
• Make ABAB patterns with pony beads

W/c 27th November – Gingerbread Man

27 Nov 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read the original tale and look at alternative stories e.g Gingerbread Girl
• Practice nativity songs
• Re-enact story, taking on roles and remembering repeated refrains
• Put the correct amount of buttons on the Gingerbread
• Order Gingerbread men by size
• Make bridge out of large construction
• Manipulate junk modelling for a purpose
• Ginger scented playdough
• Make clay Gingerbread people
• Use tweezers to decorate gingerbread people
• Make maps of Gingerbread Man’s journey
• Practice cutting out gingerbread men
• Play senses game with different smells
• Make a stream from gutters
• Numbered Gingerbread man hunt outside

W/c 21st November – Goldilocks & the three Bears

24 Nov 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Retell story with props/puppets
• Crime scene – who stole the porridge?
• Talk about keeping safe – would you go in someone’s house you didn’t know?
• continue to make houses with junk modelling
• Make marks in porridge
• Sort bears by size
• Subtising to 3
• Make bear faces from natural objects
• Make patterns with coloured bears
• Make bear food in mud kitchen
• Tell stories using small houses and environmental items e.g road, forest
• Three bears cottage role play area
• Sorting emotion pictures
• Build chairs, beds, house with construction toys
• Make bear sandwiches

W/c 13th November – Three Little Pigs

13 Nov 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read the story and discuss the different characters
• Order the story in sequence
• Create story map
• Make food for the pigs in the mud kitchen
• Design a house – use different materials
• Repeated ABAB threading pattern
• Make houses and pigs out of shapes
• Build houses from different construction materials and test strength using fan
• Blow paint with straws
• Build houses in sand pit using wet and dry sand
• Make playdough pigs
• Play listening games e.g. Traffic light game
• Cut yellow paper to make straw
• Mark making in coloured sand

W/c 6th November – Billy Goats Gruff/ Remembrance Day

6 Nov 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read the 3 Billy Goats Gruff story with props
• Use instruments to retell the story
• Build bridges using blocks
• Listen to Remembrance day story
• Order the goats by size
• Make poppy fields using resources in frames
• Cut hair on trolls
• Place trolls in different places and describe using positional language
• Make pizza troll faces
• Follow the map for the Billy Goats
• Make a bridge with large blocks/crates
• Make a raft/boat for the animals

W/c 30th October – Room on the Broom

1 Nov 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Match the Halloween rhyming words
• Talk about Trick or Treating – staying safe and with an adult
• Read Stories, Room on the Broom, Funny Bones, Pumpkin Soup
• Re-tell stories with props
• Match the Spider’s legs by dots to numbers
• Decorate pumpkins using different shapes
• Sponge painting with shapes
• Sing nursery rhymes using props
• Cave area outside – add spiders, bats & cats & count how many of each
• Make shadow pictures using torches – inside & outside
• Play ring games with music
• Incy wincy spider – what things fit through the drain pipe
• Soup recipes in the mud kitchen
• Ghost pictures in foam
• Make potions & volcanoes

W/c 16th October – The Gruffalo

16 Oct 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read the story in small groups and encourage them to join in to fill in words
• Sequence pictures in order
• Children to talk about their favourite food
• Gruffalo dice game
• Sensory play: Scrambled snake, owl ice cream, Gruffalo crumble
• Add the peg prickles to the Gruffalo
• Make crispy Gruffalo cakes
• Paint creatures from the Gruffalo story
• Move like animals in the story
• Shadow puppet theatre
• Find the numbered Gruffalos in sequence
• Measure and sort flour footprints by size