W/c 3rd February 2025 – Owl Babies / Mental Health Week

3 Feb 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read Owl Babies with props.
• Talk about how Sarah, Percy and Bill felt when they found their mother gone / had returned.
• Cafe role play.
• Print owl using different objects – think about shape and colour.
• Make loose part faces.
• Practice writing initial capital letter in chalk.
• Paint using feathers.
• Talk about a good sleep routine for us, and how owls are nocturnal / the opposite.
• Sort the objects and count.
• Learn new facts about owls.
• Tree and bean bag game.
• Sort feathers by colour.
• Make nest, using paper cutting strips.

W/c 27 January 2025 – Chinese New Year

3 Feb 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Learn new themed vocabulary.
• Chinese restaurant role play area.
• Make Chinese paper lanterns.
• Make paper plate drums.
• Paint Chinese blossom trees.
• Listen and dance to Chinese music.
• Join in with instruments.
• Dragon dancing.
• Make patterns in the sand.
• What is Chinese New Year? How do they celebrate?
• Retell animal story with puppets.
• Use chopsticks to move cotton balls.
• Put the right amount of eggs in nests.
• Imitate Chinese numerals in mud/sand.
• Tasting Chinese food.
• Match shapes in the sand.

W/C 20th January 2025 – Cinderella / Castles

22 Jan 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Make marks on invitations.
• Craft sword / shield / wand / crown.
• Read stories with puppets & props.
• Dig for jewels and count.
• Make castles from shapes.
• Threading to make jewellery.
• Obstacle course for knights.
• Tap a shape castles.
• Make themed recipes in mud kitchen.
• Attend a musical ball on stage.
• Create marks with feathers in sand.
• Mix potions in water tray.
• Explore magnetism with castle treasure.
• Knight’s battle tuff tray.
• Design and build sand castle.
• Treasure hunt for gold coins.

W/C 13th January 2025 -Winter / Frozen

13 Jan 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Winter Walk – take in the environment for signs of Winter.
• Read themed stories – e.g. Stick Man, Pip and Posy, Polar bear and the Snow Cloud.
• Snow scenes painted on black paper.
• Cotton wool polar bear pictures.
• Make marks in glitter.
• Feed the penguins the correct amount of fish.
• Fishing game.
• Subsidising number hunt.
• Look at environmental impacts on the frozen parts of the world.
• Would you like Elsa’s powers?
• Is Elsa a good queen?
• Make paper snowflakes.
• Create Frozen stage shows – dressing up, musical instruments, singing, dancing.

W/c 6th January 2025 – The Gruffalo’s Child

7 Jan 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Think about the weather in the story – what clothes should we wear?
• What helps you feel brave / scared?
• Read the story in small groups and join in if you can.
• Props from the bag, how does it relate to the story?
• Gruffalo number hunt.
• Paint creatures from the story.
• Make marks in faux snow.
• Make Gruffalo crispy cakes.
• Woodland small world play.
• Practise moving like animals.
• Measure footprints in flour and sort by size.
• Scrambled snake spaghetti, Gruffalo crumble porridge and Owl ice cream cloud dough sensory trays.

W/c 9th December 2024 – Gingerbread Man

10 Dec 2024Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Look at alternative story endings
• Use puppets to tell stories
• Play a game using senses
• Gingerbread man / water experiment
• Make Gingerbread man family
• Numbered Gingerbread man hunt
• Order men by size
• Build Gingerbread man houses
• Use tweezers to add buttons to men
• Re-enact story, taking on roles
• Use large blocks to build bridges
• Ginger / cinnamon scented playdough
• Move different objects down gutters with water

W/c 2nd December 2024 – Little Red Riding Hood

3 Dec 2024Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Retell the story with props/puppets
• Grandma’s Cottage role play
• Crime scene – where is Grandma hiding?
• Food theme Kim’s game
• Christmas craft
• Bingo dabber pictures
• Spray the chalk footprints
• Make pony bean candy canes
• Shape hunt in the sand
• Feely bag
• Make a map of the forest
• 1 minute movement challenge
• Make playdough trees
• Create small world with forest