W/c 30th October – Room on the Broom

1 Nov 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Match the Halloween rhyming words
• Talk about Trick or Treating – staying safe and with an adult
• Read Stories, Room on the Broom, Funny Bones, Pumpkin Soup
• Re-tell stories with props
• Match the Spider’s legs by dots to numbers
• Decorate pumpkins using different shapes
• Sponge painting with shapes
• Sing nursery rhymes using props
• Cave area outside – add spiders, bats & cats & count how many of each
• Make shadow pictures using torches – inside & outside
• Play ring games with music
• Incy wincy spider – what things fit through the drain pipe
• Soup recipes in the mud kitchen
• Ghost pictures in foam
• Make potions & volcanoes

W/c 16th October – The Gruffalo

16 Oct 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read the story in small groups and encourage them to join in to fill in words
• Sequence pictures in order
• Children to talk about their favourite food
• Gruffalo dice game
• Sensory play: Scrambled snake, owl ice cream, Gruffalo crumble
• Add the peg prickles to the Gruffalo
• Make crispy Gruffalo cakes
• Paint creatures from the Gruffalo story
• Move like animals in the story
• Shadow puppet theatre
• Find the numbered Gruffalos in sequence
• Measure and sort flour footprints by size

W/c 9th October – Autumn

9 Oct 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Autumn Walks – Monday & Wednesday. Set off from nursery at 9:30am and return at 11:30am
  
• Read Autumn themed books, e.g. Leaf man, We’re going on a leaf hunt
• Learn new songs for Autumn
• Cosy cottage themed role play (indoors)
• Natural café (outside)
• Thread the leaves on the string
• Create Autumn pictures with natural items
• Conker in paint rolling
• Make leaf/bark rubbings
• Learn new words e.g. Hibernate, deciduous, acorn, chestnut, conkers, foraging
• Finger painted tree
• Make leaf soup
• Discuss seasonal changes
• Make playdough hedgehogs
• Use natural objects for one for one counting

W/c 2nd October – Owl Babies

2 Oct 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read Owl Babies with props
• Talk about how each owl felt during the story
• Discuss have you ever felt lonely, scared, sad, happy
• Cafe role play area
• Use natural media to make owls
• Make marks with feathers
• Sort & count natural objects
• Talk about road safety
• Work as a team to complete a task
• Find out facts about owls
• Use guttering to move objects
• Make nests from dough and natural objects
• Use scissor snips to create feathers
• Make marks in sand with sticks

W/c 25th September – Families

27 Sep 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Discuss our families
• Think about different family members – e.g who is the tallest?
• Read stories with puppets
• Sing nursery rhymes with props
• Create gingerbread people
• Salt in the square tuff spot
• Think about body parts
• Hide name cards in sand and find and label
• Make a car out of large blocks and think of journeys we go on
• People dressing up puzzles
• Make faces out of play dough
• Draw around each other and compare heights
• Draw around hands and count fingers

W/c 18th September – Ourselves

18 Sep 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• To notice and describe faces
• Read stories with puppets e.g “Colour Monster” “Owl Babies”
• Baby clinic themed role play, practice dressing dolls
• Paint self portraits using mirrors
• Make marks in shaving foam
• Threading with small beads
• Move using different parts of our body
• Listening games, e.g bean game
• Make faces in sand using natural objects for features
• Colour Monster – what makes us feel different emotions
• Touch and feel sensory books – use descriptive words
• Use large chalks on the playground
• Draw round hands and count fingers

W/c 11th Sept – Nursery Rhymes

11 Sep 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Learn new rhymes
• Look at the nursery rhyme sacks
• Talk about feelings – how did Humpty Dumpty feel?
• Ask what is our favourite rhymes
• use instruments to add rhythm to rhymes
• Explore spiders and drainpipes
• Songs in the water tray – explore floating and sinking
• Draw happy/sad faces on Incy Wincy spider
• Lightbox with stars
• Plant bulbs like Mary Mary
• Make spiders with 8 legs
• Nursery rhyme jigsaw puzzles
• Ring songs, e.g Hokey Cokey, Mulberry Bush
• Make jam tarts in playdoh
• Move buses along the road, people and vehicles