All posts by Nikki Wims

W/c 9th & 16th June 2025 – What the Ladybird Heard / What the ladybird heard next.

  • Talk about the trip to the farm.
  • Look at non fiction books about farm life.
  • Read Ladybird heard stories.
  • Farm vets role play area.
  • Draw paths on playground and follow on bikes.
  • Name animals on the farm.
  • Play ring games: Duck duck goose.
  • Make farm animal masks.
  • Match adult and baby animals.
  • Bury magnetic objects in sand.
  • Goats milk / cheese tasting.
  • Kim’s game, guess the animals with clues.
  • Identify animal name initial sounds.
  • Make homes for animals with construction.
  • Animal songs: old Macdonald, Baa Baa…
  • Count out correct amount of animals.

W/c 2nd June 2025 – Billy Goats Gruff

  • Read story with props.
  • Consider the problem in the story, how can this be solved?
  • Vets role play area.
  • Painting characters from the story.
  • Try goats cheese and milk.
  • Get water to travel using methods.
  • Story tuff tray.
  • Use grass to create in mud kitchen.
  • Build bridges with shaped blocks.
  • Cut hair on the troll.
  • Make raft / boat for animals to cross water.
  • Look at pictures of famous bridges and measure with cubes.
  • Sensory story.
  • Over and under obstacle course.
  • Mould and manipulate sand to shapes.
  • Build using different shapes.

W/c 19th May 2025 – Bees-World Bee Day

  • Learn about the bee life cycle.
  • Read Bee Story, That’s not my bee.
  • Make honey biscuits.
  • Make bees with wool and pinecones.
  • Play where’s the bee with positional language clues.
  • Dance with streamers to Flight of the Bumblebee.
  • Have toast with honey.
  • Match lowercase and uppercase letters.
  • Collect pom pom pollen with tweezers.
  • Use balls for different purposes.
  • Make playdough bees.
  • Use pippettes to move water into honeycomb.
  • Bee number bands.

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!