- 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
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W/c 9th October – Autumn
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
W/c 10th July – Rosie’s Hat – Seaside
- Read seaside stories – Rosie’s hat, Spot goes on holiday, What the ladybird heard on holiday
- Ice cream parlour role play
- Make ocean music using instruments
- Learn about pollution/littering
- Parachute: Make waves for beachball
- Write letters in coloured sand
- Learn how wind can change appearance and position of things
- Investigate weight using buckets and seaside items e.g pebbles
- Make sea creatures from playdough
- Cutting skills – create octopus tentacles
- Play volleyball in sandpit
- Experiment with sand to make castles
- Magnetic fishing game
- Make marks in coloured sand
- Make messages for bottles
- Use tongs to find items in jelly
- Share stories/experiences of holidays