W/c 31st October – Halloween/Fireworks

2 Nov 2022Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Fireworks number songs
• Make shape witches and rockets
• Explore rhyming words
• Listen to and share experiences of fireworks
• Dark den: use torches to explore
• Dance: moving like fireworks
• Write letters from names in sand
• Throw tea bags to make firework pictures
• Talk about the need for warmer clothes
• Read Room on the Broom and retell
• Mix primary colours to paint pumpkin pictures
• Hammer golf tees into pumpkins
• Mould dough into pumpkins
• Use musical instruments to make sounds like fireworks
• Make spider webs in salt
• Use tweezers to collect Halloween items from the web

W/c 17th October – Diwali

17 Oct 2022Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about the meaning of Diwali
• Talk about good over evil
• Read the story of Rama and Sita with props
• Make clay Diyas
• Sweet shop role play area
• Draw shapes and add coloured sand to make rangoli patterns
• Build a bridge together for the monkeys
• Use shapes on the lightbox to make patterns
• Use torches to explore the dark
• Make barfi on snack table
• Read other themed stories e.g “Lighting a Lamp”
• Learn new language: rangoli, diya, Hindu goddess, barfi

W/c 10th October – Autumn

11 Oct 2022Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Autumn Walks: Tuesday & Thursday – 9:30-11:30am
• Talk about seasonal changes and what we might need to start wearing
• Share our Autumn collection bags from home
• Read seasonal stories e.g Leaf Man
• Learn new Autumn songs
• Find natural objects – count to 5
• Move like leaves/ animals: crawling, leaping etc
• Hole punch leaves and thread on string
• Autumn sensory tray
• Build homes for animals who hibernate
• Write letters in sand, mud on trays
• Scented playdoh: make pumpkins/leaves
• Create leaf and bark rubbings
• Use scissor skills to make hedgehogs
• Listen for sounds on Autumn Walk
• Listening games with musical instruments
• Den building outside

W/c 3rd October – Scarecrows Wedding/Harvest

3 Oct 2022Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• What is Harvest?
• Read Scarecrow’s Wedding, Little Red Hen, The Enormous Turnip
• Role Play Area – Supermarket with enhancements
• Make a Scarecrow in large group
• Autumn themed songs: Dingle dangle Scarecrow, Autumn Leaves are falling
• Print vegetable pictures, look at colours
• Create leaf/bark rubbing
• Make initial letters from pulses
• Compare vegetables using scales
• Play musical scarecrows
• Create trees from train track and leaves
• Use playdough to imitate bread dough e.g rolls/plaits
• Make scarecrow faces using natural loose parts
• Build den using tyres, material etc
• Recreate the Enormous Turnip
• Natural Objects: Float and Sink
• Use magnifying glasses to explore fruit & veg

W/c 26th September – Healthy Foods/Supertato

26 Sep 2022Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Search the garden for Evil Peas
• Read supertato stories
• Supermarket role play area
• Food related number songs: 5 currant buns, 10 fat sausages
• Order fruit by weight/colour
• Make pitta pizzas
• Collage – healthy eating plate
• Rescue the super veg
• Threading cereal hoops/pasta tubes
• Float/sink: Fruit and veg
• Look inside fruit using magnifying glasses
• Write shopping lists
• Make supertato
• Feely bag with fruit and veg
• Make sounds with pots and pans
• Clap syllables of pictures
• Explore fruit frozen in ice cubes

W/c 19th September – Handa’s Surprise

21 Sep 2022Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Listen to the story of Handa’s Surprise and think about the setting and characters
• Think about the colours of the fruit we eat
• Guess what fruit is in the bag by the clues
• Sort the foods by colour
• Use name cards to make different marks
• Fruit market role play area
• Paint pictures of fruit and vegetables
• Weighing and measuring – predict which fruits will be heavier/lighter
• Use clear bottles and pipettes for colour mixing
• Play the traffic light game
• Dancing with coloured scarves and ribbons
• Use puppets to tell stories
• Threading coloured beads
• Make colourful fruit kebabs
• Make a large rainbow as a group

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W/c 12th September – Colour Around Us

12 Sep 2022Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• What colours are used to make us feel safe?
• Think about how we have different coloured: eyes/hair/skin
• Read themed stories: The Mixed Up Chameleon, Elmer, Brown Bear, brown bear
• Think about the coloured food we eat
• Mixing colours: light box, painting
• Draw pictures of rainbows
• Paint self portraits
• Dance with coloured scarves
• Sort small cars in coloured car park spaces
• Colour scavenger hunt
• Threading coloured beads
• Play the Traffic light game
• Make colourful fruit kebabs
• Grate chalks in mud kitchen

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