• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

• Listen to A Squash and a Squeeze, Through the Jungle, Old Macdonald.
• Home area with pets.
• Play duck duck goose, farmers in his den, musical statues.
• Copy the pattern on the eggs.
• Lotto sounds game.
• Hear rhyming words in story.
• Guess what animal is in the bag.
• Sort the animals and compare the amounts.
• Make towers and knock down with beanbags.
• Build homes for animals with different shapes.
• Learn about animal life cycles.
• Sensory squeezing and squashing.
• Clap syllables for animal names.
• Animals need a bath in the water tray.
• Follow the frog spawn.