W/c 10th June – Rainbow Fish/ Under the Sea

10 Jun 2024Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read stories: That’s not my shark, Rainbow Fish, Tiddler
• Learn new language, e.g Sea Creatures
• Ice cream parlour role play
• Make sea life creatures
• Write with lolly sticks
• Make ocean music with instruments
• New sea themed rhymes
• Build vehicles with blocks: planes, boats, cars
• Make submarines
• Rescue frozen sea creatures
• Make straw necklace
• Make parachute waves

W/c 3rd June – Sharing a shell

3 Jun 2024Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about sharing/turn taking
• Seaside café outdoor role play
• Read stories about the seaside: Snail & the Whale, Commotion in the Ocean, Tiddler
• Learn initial sound of sea creatures
• Make playdough shells
• Fathers Day crafts
• Make waves with the parachute
• Share seaside experiences
• Explore using magnifying glasses
• Sand paint pictures
• Make up story using sack
• Explore patterns – footprints, waves, shells
• Seaside themed missing item game
• Create sea creatures
• Use shells to make creatures

W/c 20th May – What other things come from eggs?

22 May 2024Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read the Odd Egg, That’s not my frog
• Consider what hatches out of an egg
• Pass the egg, guess what’s inside
• Look at pictures of egg and think about the reptiles that grow in them
• Eggs with paint in tuff tray
• Use the egg shakers to follow a rhythm
• Copy the patterns on the eggs
• Move the eggs along the drainpipes
• Set up a pond for frogs
• Parachute egg toss
• Egg/nest number bonds
• Measure the length of our frog jumps
• Rhyming eggs hidden in the garden
• Watch different animal life cycles

W/c 13th May – The Ugly Duckling

13 May 2024Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Learn duck rhymes
• Match word to picture egg
• Match the sound eggs
• Make pancakes
• Pond small world tray
• Make ink/paint marks with feathers
• Watch life cycle of ducks/swans
• Feed the duck the correct amount of worms
• Talk about what makes us special/unique
• Sort animals by colour size
• Make eggs in playdough
• Use fingers to peck out of bowl
• Use large letters in sand – then find phonetic matching to find items
• Explore floating & sinking
• Move like animals on the playground
• Egg hunt in sand pit
• Draw letters

W/c 29th April – Superworm

2 May 2024Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Share stories: Superworm, Twist and Hop
• Talk about being kind and gentle to worms
• What bug is it? Play descriptive game
• Complete the pattern on the worms
• Sort the worms by size
• Draw and measure worms
• Make playdough worms and measure with cubes
• Play stick in the mud, the floor is mud
• Dig for worms in the soil
• Create recipes in the mud kitchen
• Move like different bugs
• Collect worms with peg birds
• Make worms from loose parts
• Learn nursery routine
• Practice self care (e.g taking off coats)

W/c 22nd April – Growing/Vegetables

22 Apr 2024Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read Oliver’s Fruit Salad, Oliver’s Vegetables
• Introduce non fiction books about growing and life cycles
• Discuss fears of mini beasts and how to overcome these when finding them in the garden
• Vegetable printing (2-year-olds)
• Still life painting (Older children)
• Sort fruit and veg by colour. Record the ones we like
• Measure vegetables using cubes
• Small world farm
• Grow beans – talk about how to take care of them
• Mould fruit and vegetables in sand
• Make vegetables in play dough
• Vegetable themed obstacle course
• Cut fruit on snack table. Look at the seeds that come from each and plant some

W/c 15th April – The Very Hungry Caterpillar/Mini Beasts

22 Apr 2024Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Play “What Bug is it?” game, respond to clues to guess bug
• Sort healthy & unhealthy foods
• Retell story on the stage using masks/props
• Create caterpillar using different media/methods
• Make garden themed tuff tray
• Make symmetrical butterflies
• Write letters in the sand
• Make a chart of our favourite fruits
• Create fruit caterpillars on the snack table
• Plant seeds outside
• Move spiders along gutter with water
• Learn about the butterfly life cycle
• Make repeated patterns using pony beads
• Order the story