This week we will:

• Talk about how we are feeling and what makes us feel different emotions (PSED, UTW)
• School themed role play (EAD)
• Make faces in the sand using pebbles, shells (M, PSED)
• Promote independence using puzzles (M, PD)
• Talk about our new schools and teachers (CL, UTW)
• Use household objects to explore float and sink (UtW)
• Draw maps of how we get to school (L, PD
• Use hart shape to make a picture of what we love about nursery (PD, L, EAD, UtW, CL)
• Make a school with small world toys (UtW, EAD)
• Practise using buttons, zips and fastenings (PD)
• Match cars to their numbered parking spaces (M)
• make a colour monster using specific colours (EAD)
• Use own choice of media to make imitations of uniforms (EAD, UtW)
• Use needle and wool to sew initial sound of name (PD)

This week we will:

• Read the story of Hansel and Gretel (L, CL)
• Talk about keeping healthy, washing, brushing teeth (PD)
• Talk about how Hansel and Gretel felt throughout the story (PSED, CL)
• Make paths using glass pebbles and patterns (M)
• Play ‘What’s the tune Mrs Witch’ (CL, PSED, PD)
• Decorate the Gingerbread house (EAD, PD)
• Use construction blocks to build houses (PD, EAD)
• Programme Bee Bot muse to get home (UtW, M)
• Sort emotion pictures (PSED, CL)
• Draw maps with both leading home (CL, L, PD)
• Use instruments to play emotional music – happy and scared (EAD)
• Make playdough houses with ginger scent (PD, EAD)
• Cleaning teeth game (CL, PD, UtW)

This week we will:

• Read books about the Queen and London (L)
• Talk about our experiences and share knowledge of London (CL, PSED, UTW)
• Order the cakes by numeral (M)
• Make cakes in the sand with pebbles, shells, cones (M, EAD)
• Design birthday card for the Queen (EAD, L)
• Make party invitations for a tea party (L)
• London Bus role play area (EAD)
• Use blocks to build castle/palace (PD, EAD)
• Draw/paint portraits of the Queen (EAD, L)
• Graduation practice (CL, PSED, EAD)
• Make crowns (EAD, PD)
• Write recipes for mud kitchen birthday cakes. (L)
• Fathers Day craft (PD, CL, L, EAD)

This week we will:

• Talk about being kind and gentle to the bugs we find and the need to release them. (PSED, UTW, CL)
• Read ‘What the ladybird Heard’, talk about the characters (L, CL)
• Police station role play area (UTW, EAD)
• Use string worms to make marks with paint (EAD)
• Draw animals with the correct number of legs (M)
• Clap out syllables for insect names (L,M)
• Talk about/identify the rhyming words in the story (L.CL)
• Make a garden in the tuff spot (EAD, UTW)
• Are ladybirds circles/ovals? Find other circles/ovals (M).
• Use Tweezers to sort the bugs (PD)
• Make playdough bugs with playdough (EAD, PD, UtW)
• Look at the job of the farmer and police officer (UtW)
• Use computer to find out facts about ladybirds (UtW)
• Make bugs using potatoes and pebbles (EAD)
• Draw slug trails in chalk around the playground (EAD, L)

Next week is half term – Have a lovely weeks break!

This week we will:

• Read Rainbow Fish, Sharing a shell, Who is in the Sea? Commotion in the ocean. (L)
• Talk about sharing, taking turns and being kind to our friends (PSED)
• Make a textured sea creature using sand, bubble wrap, glitter (EAD)
• Use the stage for ‘Under the Sea’ show (EAD, CL)
• Number fish in the water (M,CL)
• Move the Bee Bot (UTW, CL, PD)
• Make sea creatures using 2D + 3D shapes (M)
• Play volleyball in the sand (PD)
• Seaside scene in the tuff spot (UTW, CL, EAD)
• make marks in coloured sand (PD)
• Make ocean music using instruments (EAD)
• Make waves using the parachute (PD, PSED)
• Feed the monster shapes (M)
• Make decorations for stage show eg Masks (EAD)
• Make loose part creatures (EAD, PD, UTW)

This week we will:

• Read ‘Dear Zoo’, ‘Noah’s Ark’, ‘Monkey Puzzle’ (L)
• Practise/learn Graduation songs (CL, EAD)
• Listen to animal sounds (CL)
• Write letters/draw pictures to the Zoo (PD, L)
• Link animals in twos (M)
• Play animal games – animal dominoes, snakes and ladders (PSED, M)
• Noah’s Ark tuff spot (UtW, EAD, L)
• Look at what wild animals come from eggs e.g snakes, crocodiles (UtW)
• Share stories/experiences of wild animals (PSED)
• What effect does exercise have on our bodies (PD)
• Learn new words for animal parents/babies (UtW)
• Songs in the water with props e.g Tiny Tim (L, CL, EAD)
• Farm or wild? Sorting game (UtW)
• Paint favourite wild animal (EAD, PD)
• Guess the animal by the description (CL, UtW)
• Build boats using sticks and shapes (PD, EAD)