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W/c 3rd July – Special Journeys

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  • Share stories of journeys we’ve been on
  • Listen and sing along to Journey home from Grandpa’s
  • Consider descriptive words for journey, e.g “bumpy”
  • Make a map for a journey we remember
  • Transport role play e.g aeroplane, bus
  • Clap syllables for transport vehicles
  • Make waterways using gutters for Boats
  • Program Beebot
  • Move vehicles through flour to make tracks
  • Write tickets, passports, booking forms
  • Role play using money to buy tickets
  • Makes marks using pens on vehicles
  • Mini car wash using toothbrushes
  • Sing transport songs with instruments
  • Numbered vehicles and car park
  • Make road using duplo

W/c 26th June – A Squash and a Squeeze

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  • Copy the patterns on the eggs
  • Make towers and knock over with bean bags
  • Squash and a Squeeze story with props
  • Hear and identify rhyming words
  • Make frittatas
  • Make patterns in sand tray
  • Match eggs to numeral
  • Watch egg life cycle and revisit knowledge
  • Play duck duck, goose, farmers in his den
  • Squeeze different items into a tent e.g balloons
  • Make pet food in mud kitchen

W/c 19th June – Rosie’s Walk

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  • Look at the story Rosie’s Walk and ask questions
  • Introduce the Little Red Hen story
  • Hand print fox or hen prints
  • Follow the playground walk game
  • Den building
  • Make aspects of the story using playdoh
  • Number bonds – hens and nests
  • Take apples from the tree using tweezers
  • Make Rosie’s Walk in the sand pit
  • Use Bee Bot to programme a journey
  • Draw a map of the farm Rosie walks through
  • Sequence the story
  • Investigate eggs, raw and cooked
  • Learn Graduation songs
  • Sports Day practice

W/c 5th June – Pets

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  • Talk about ways we can help care for pets
  • Share information about our pets
  • Sing animal songs
  • Make tally/bar chart about our pets
  • Make animals with shapes
  • Vets theme role play
  • Feed the cat using tweezers
  • Spell name with magnetic letters and write
  • Move like animals
  • Read animal stories
  • Make animal paintings
  • Animal hospital tuff spot

W/c 22nd May – Dinosaurs

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  • Look at fiction and non fiction books on dinosaurs
  • Learn new vocabulary e.g archaeologist
  • Go on a dinosaur hunt
  • Sort the dinosaurs by colour and type
  • Dinosaur threading cards
  • Make a dinosaur from the shapes
  • Release the dinosaurs from frozen eggs
  • Measure dinosaurs and sort by size
  • Dinosaur tuff spot
  • Add playdough spikes to dinosaurs
  • Dotty dinosaurs shape game
  • Make dinosaurs with junk modelling
  • Find dinosaur eggs in the sand

W/c 15th May – Volcanoes

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  • Read “Volcano” story
  • Learn facts about volcanoes
  • share knowledge of fire, fire safety and if this is the same with a volcano
  • Fizzy paint pictures
  • Fill the volcanoes with rice “lava”
  • Build volcanoes in the sand
  • Dinosaur land small world play
  • Create volcanoes using shapes
  • Floor is lava game with shapes on the playground
  • Blow painting on volcanoes
  • Make marks in the mud with dinosaurs
  • Cut and sequence volcanoes
  • Make rainclouds in jars

W/c 9th May – Superworm

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  • Read themed stories – Superworm, Snail & the Whale, Twist & Hop
  • Talk about being kind & gentle to minibeasts
  • Move worms using magnets
  • Thread beads to make worms
  • Play beetle game with friends
  • Rescue worms from jelly with tweezers
  • Sort worms by size
  • Fill pollen tray with “nectar” using pipettes
  • Move like different mini beasts
  • Dancing worms experiment
  • Find metal things in soil using detectors
  • Learn new facts about mini beasts
  • Play stuck in the mud
  • Draw & measure worms
  • Use wool & paint to make trails