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Gingerbread Men

This week we will:

  • Talk about the story of the gingerbread man
  • Look at alternative stories
  • Design & make gingerbread men
  • Ginger spiced playdoh
  • Cut people & join using split pins
  • Put buttons on gingerbread men using tweezers
  • Make a bridge across the river
  • Practice nativity songs
  • Use puppets to tell stories
  • Make/bake things in the mud kitchen
  • Draw around children on playground to make gingerbread men

Week commencing 15th November 2021 – Nursery Rhymes Week

This week we will:

  • Learn new rhymes
  • Read stories and look for rhyming words
  • Paint using tea bags
  • Make flowers for Mary Mary
  • Make obstacles to jump over, e.g Hey Diddle Diddle
  • Perform nursery rhymes on the stage
  • Sing ring songs e.g Hokey Cokey
  • Use big movements for action songs
  • Introduce woodwork tools
  • Draw stars in glitter
  • Introduce rhyme sacks
  • How can we look after ourselves?

Week commencing 8th November 2021 – Remembrance Day

This week we will:

  • Talk about why the day is special and the meaning behind poppies
  • Make poppies and role play selling them at a stall
  • Role play doctors area for treating the wounded
  • Talk about occupations/families
  • Match the poppies with the numbers
  • Make biscuits into poppies using icing
  • Make painted poppies using handprints and apples
  • Make poppy field landscapes using fingerprints
  • Use playdoh on poppy themed mats and tools
  • Use poppy themed colouring pages
  • Use different shapes to make poppies
  • Draw poppies in sand and glitter
  • Use coloured water with bubbles and cupcake cases

Week commencing 1st November 2021 – Fireworks/Diwali

This week we will:

  • Sing firework songs with sounds
  • Make a dark den and use torches
  • Talk about the festival of light
  • Make fireworks in the sand
  • Draw rangoli patterns with chalk on the playgrounds
  • Dance like like fireworks
  • Listen to the story of Rama & Sita
  • Make fireworks out of shapes
  • Explore sparkly playdough
  • Make catherine wheel pictures with glitter
  • Make 3D junk model rockets
  • Talk about safety at bonfire night

Week commencing 18th October 2021 – Halloween & Room on the Broom

This week we will:

  • Make soup in the mud kitchen, write recipes
  • Read themed stories: Room on the Broom, Pumpkin Sup, That’s not my bat
  • Make ghost pictures in the foam
  • Match the Halloween rhyming words
  • Mix potions in the water tray
  • Hammer golf tees into the pumpkins
  • Search for spiders outside
  • Move around on broomsticks
  • Draw legs on the spiders
  • Play what’s the time Mrs Witch
  • Mould the dough into pumpkins
  • Make shadow pictures with torches

Remember it is Halloween Mufti on Monday 18th and Thursday 21st October.

Week commencing 11th October 2021 – Autumn

Autumn walk – Monday and Thursday 09:30 – 11:30

This week we will:

  • Talk about the changes to the season – what clothes should we wear? what has happened to the environment?
  • Learn new songs for Autumn
  • Listen to Autumn theme stories – ‘We’re going on a leaf hunt’, ‘Leaf Man’.
  • Learn new words such as Hibernation, foraging….
  • Number 5 – find 5 natural objects eg conkers
  • Conker rolling painting
  • Float and sink natural objects
  • Build homes for animals which hibernate
  • Make hedgehogs in playdough, count prickles
  • Practise putting coats on
  • create leaf and bark rubbings

Please remember to bring back your reading books so we can swap them for you to enjoy a new story together.

Week commencing 4th October 2021 – Goldilocks and the Three Bears

This week we will:

  • Read the different versions of the traditional tale (L)
  • Talk about how the characters might feel (PSED)
  • Use construction toys to make chairs and beds (PD)
  • Mark making in porridge oats (L)
  • Use house to tell stories with different characters (L)
  • Set up a teddy bears picnic to include Goldilocks (PSED)
  • Tea set in water tray with different sizes (M)
  • Order the story in sequence (L)
  • Explore ‘4’ with music, songs, shapes (M, EAD)
  • Build a path for a listening walk through the forest (LA)
  • Move around like different size bears in different moods (PD)