W/c 30th January – Dear Zoo/Animal Patterns

30 Jan 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about “what is your favourite animal?”
• Guess the animal in the sack – follow the descriptive clues
• Rainforest café role play area
• Free painting of favourite animals
• Build habitats for animals – junk modelling
• Make patterns in sand, e.g Spots/Stripes
• Play animal lotto/snap
• Link elephants
• Move like animals
• Write letters to someone
• Walking through the jungle tuff spot
• Sea creatures in water tray
• Sort and count animals
• Make up stories using animals and objects
• Use tweezers to give Cheetah pom pom spots
• Threading pasta/cereal to make snakes

W/c 23rd January – Chinese New Year

23 Jan 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Chinese restaurant home corner
• Draw Chinese numbers in the sand
• Try some Chinese food at snack time
• Build a dragon for dragon dancing
• Create paper plate drum
• Listen to Chinese New Year story
• Learn about the Great Wall of China
• Put the right amount of gold coins in envelopes
• Measure noodles using cubes
• Build walls using blocks
• Collect bottle tops from water using chopsticks
• Retell story using animal puppets
• Consider similarities/differences between celebrating our New Year
• Chinese blossom painting

W/c 16th January – Zog & the Flying Doctors

18 Jan 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Learn the role of a doctor
• Read Zog and the Flying Doctors, Dragon Princess Mirror Belle & the Dragon Pox
• Make potions in the water and mud kitchen
• Build castles using different construction toys
• Put the right amount of gems on the crowns
• Doctor themed cutting sheets
• Doctor surgery role play area
• Knights and castle tuff tray
• Move the cotton wool balls with tweezers
• Use pipettes to move coloured water to ice cube trays
• Build castles in the sand
• Use potato printing to make shapes into castles
• Design & make a crown
• Experiment with sound and percussion to make castle noises
• Knight’s obstacle course
• Sing rhymes including Miss Polly had a Dolly, Heads, Shoulders, Knees & toes, 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

W/c 9th January – Stars & Space

16 Jan 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Think about our Christmas experiences
• Make a wish upon a star – adult to scribe
• Alien from another planet – consider how we would care for it
• Sing themed songs – Twinkle Twinkle/ Star Light, Star Bright, 5 little Men in a Flying Saucer
• Read themed stories – e.g Aliens love Underpants
• Draw aliens and count their legs etc
• Space rocket game with dice
• Build a rocket using magnets
• Write a story together using themed objects in the sack
• Focus on collecting stars from gel with tweezers
• Thread beads and cotton reels to make aliens
• Free the aliens from green goop
• Chalk rockets to do a rocket race
• Set up a picnic area on the moon
• Make different sounds to music and move like aliens
• Freeze aliens in ice – consider how we can free them
• Tuff spot with chalks to draw aliens
• Hide themed objects in cardboard boxes using torches to find out what they are
• Glitter writing/ writing in sand colour

W/c 5th & 12th December – Christmas!

5 Dec 2022Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about Christmas and think about its meaning
• Practice Nativity
• Listen to Christmas themed stories
• Use puppets to tell stories
• Wrapping area – scissors, Sellotape, ribbon
• Turn into Santa with fireplace
• Sing Christmas songs
• Christmas craft activities
• Make snowballs with gloop
• Use magnets to move items from a bottle
• Nativity tuff spot
• Build Christmas trees with blocks
• Measure how tall we are with ribbon
• Put baubles on the trees
• Follow the number path to deliver presents

W/c 28th November – Gingerbread Man

28 Nov 2022Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about the story and consider why he kept running away
• Look at alternative stories e.g The Gingerbread Girl
• Decorate the large Gingerbread Man on the playground
• Make a Gingerbread Man and decorate
• Put buttons on Gingerbread Man using tweezers
• Write numbers in flour
• Gingerbread Man tuff spot story
• Make a bridge from construction resources
• Scented ginger/cinnamon play dough
• Order the Gingerbread Men by size
• Hunt for numbered Gingermen using positional clues
• Use gutters to make streams and boats
• Have races using different ways of moving
• Draw Gingerbread Men in the sand
• Play a game with scents
• Bakery/kitchen role play area

W/c 21st November – Goldilocks and the 3 Bears

21 Nov 2022Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Retell stories using props/puppets
• Goldilocks and the 3 bears sensory story
• Talk about the feelings of the characters
• Would you talk to a stranger?
• Three bears cottage role play area
• Use different size bowls/spoons/chairs
• Make marks in porridge
• Make bears from clay in different sizes
• Build houses using different resources
• Use blocks/Duplo/stickle bricks to build beds and chairs for baby bear
• Make bears from loose parts
• Use small house to tell stories
• Make food for the bears in the mud kitchen
• Make homes using junk modelling
• Find letters in the porridge tray and write some