Week 1 – George and the Dragon

This week we will:

• Talk about England – share English traditions. (PSE)
• Think about the knights role (PSE)
• Learn new language – bold, honour, protect, lance, joust, sword, armour, learn new songs about England (CL)
• Play football, croquet, gross motor skills used (PD)
• Use spray bottles to put out flames (PD)
• Post the swords (PD)
• Pop up dragon (PD)
• Make afternoon tea invites (L)
• Make marks for story (L)
• Look at England fact cards and non-fiction (L)
• Counting sugar in tea (M)
• How many dragons? (M)
• Build bridges and castles – shapes (M)
• Look at the English flag (UtW)
• Colour a flag using the drawing programme (UtW)
• Make a fire breathing dragon (EAD)
• Make a hand print red rose (EAD)
• Dragon dancing with music (EAD)

This week we will:

• Read Easter stories (C, CL)
• The Little Red Hen tuff spot (L, EAD)
• Use magnifying glasses to look at different eggs (UtW)
• Use paper plats to make Easter Baskets (EAD, PD)
• Copy patterns on eggs (M, EAD)
• Easter craft (EAD)
• Hunt for numbered eggs in the garden (M, UTW, L)
• Life cycle of a hen (UtW, CL)
• Garden centre role play (EAD, M, PSED)
• Talk about Easter traditions (CL, UtW)
• Easter themed dominoes (PSED, CL)
• More planting!!!! (UtW, PD)

Easter party reminder – no normal sessions 09:00-11:00. Close for Easter break. Please ensure you have confirmed attendance with Zoë

This week we will:

• Use props to retell the story (L, CL)
• Talk about how Jack felt at different parts of the story (PSED)
• Use CD player to play stories (UTW, PSED)
• Measure each other and build beanstalks a stall (M, PD)
• Move in different ways around the garden to avoid the giant (PD)
• Build castles using various materials (PD, EAD)
• Sort and move beans using tweezers (PD)
• Read other stories including giants (L)
• Make shakers using beans (EAD)
• Trace over chalk marks with water (EAD, L)
• Thread leaves on to pipe cleaners (PD)
• Garden centre role play (EAD, CL, UtW)
• Play shopping game (PSED)

This week we will:

• Share stories, talk about being kind to insects (PSE)
• Retell a story, listen to other explanations. (CL)
• Look at non-fiction books (CL)
• Thread pipe cleaners to make caterpillars (PD)
• Move the ball in different ways (PD)
• Match the rhyming sounds (L)
• Order the story (L)
• Make the caterpillars find the missing numbers (M)
• Watch the life cycle of the butterfly (UtW)
• Start to plant (UtW)
• Draw and colour the life cycle (EAD)
• Tap and use instruments (EAD)

This week we will:

• Talk about being kind to creatures and the need to release them (PSE, UTW)
• Look and handle books with care, non fiction/fiction (CL)
• Make worms with cereal
• Collect worms using bird pegs
• Move like different bugs
• Manipulate a ball
• Find letters, write a worm name (L)
• Find the initial sounds (L)
• How many legs? (M)
• Learn which mini beasts lay eggs
• Make a wormery (UtW)
• Draw bugs and insects (EAD)

Week commencing 22nd February 2021 – Dinosaur

Good morning and welcome back everyone. We hope you had a lovely break over half term.

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This week we will be starting with a princess dinosaur story as the vote by the children was for both.

This week we will:

• Share news (PSE)
• Learn about dinosaurs (UTW)
• Look at fiction, non-fiction books about dinosaurs (CL)
• Move in different way – don’t go in the lava. (PD)
• Make dinosaur prints (PD)
• Draw round stencils (PD)
• Match the right eggs to the sound eggs (L)
• Draw patterns on the dinosaur
• Find the shapes on the dinosaurs (M)
• Talk about different times
• How can we move the dinosaur to the top of the bucklet (UTW)
• Make prints (hands) into something special (EAD)