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W/c 17th April – Spring/Things that grow

  • Share news from our Easter holidays
  • Read The Tiny Seed – change the story using props
  • Make flowers using letters of our name
  • Garden centre role play – write orders, lists, bills outside
  • Look at and paint flowers
  • Use scarves or crepe paper to move like butterflies/flowers/trees
  • Draw large flowers on the playground
  • Number rhymes – order the flowers in the correct order
  • How many flowers can we find in the garden – make a ten frame with sticks
  • Build a stem using milk bottle tops for the flowers to match the numerals
  • Garden sensory bin
  • Thread flowers into a pot/sieve
  • Make a garden in the tuff spot
  • Fill plant pots with compost using spoons
  • Make a pond in the water tray, add fish, weeds, flowers etc
  • Look at the inside of fruit and vegetables and how they differ – do they have seeds?
  • Plant a seed

W/c 27th March – Easter

  • Talk about Easter
  • Make up stories with Easter props
  • Introduce language about Easter
  • Make a basket using a plate
  • Chocolate nests – notice the changes
  • Find objects and match to shapes
  • Fill the eggs with the right amount of beans
  • Share Easter stories
  • Join the dots to make Easter pictures – 1-20
  • Put pom poms in the eggs using Tweezers
  • Easter tuff trays
  • Wash the ducks with sponges
  • Write names in the sand with sticks
  • There was an old lady who swallowed a chick – use props
  • Run around obstacles

W/c 20th March – The Odd Egg

  • Read the Odd Egg – what do you think is inside the duck’s egg?
  • What hatches out of an egg
  • Learn new vocabulary
  • Humpty Dumpty song sack
  • Egg hunt with numerals
  • Thread a pasta snake
  • Make turtles with fruit
  • Copy the pattern on the eggs
  • Happy street farm & town
  • Egg & cocktail stick construction activity
  • Find the eggs using the timer
  • Shoot the eggs/ducks using water
  • Sink or float activity
  • Egg Experiments

W/c 13th March – Ugly Duckling

  • Read the story and talk about emotions
  • Talk about what makes us unique
  • Think about how we change as we grow
  • Move like different animals outside
  • Watch the life cycle of a duck and swan
  • Learn new language about Spring: growth, blossom, new life
  • Letters in the water tray
  • Use the feathers to make marks
  • Guess what’s in the egg by sound
  • Make eggs in the dough
  • 5 little ducks tuff spot
  • Paint pictures about the story
  • Play the bean game
  • Thread leaves onto sticks/strings

W/c 6th March – Little Red Riding Hood

  • Read Little Red Riding Hood
  • Talk about the characters – which are kind or unkind?
  • Look in the mirror and ask if we look like our grandparents – why/why not?
  • Talk about how long you should brush your teeth
  • Kim’s game – food themed
  • Grandma’s Cottage role play area
  • Make Mother’s Day crafts
  • Paint pictures of fruit and vegetables
  • Use small house to tell stories
  • Use timers for activities that can be done in 2 minutes
  • Thread cereal to make a necklace for mummy
  • Make food for Grandma with playdoh
  • Look at different foods and consider what is good for us
  • Hidden letters in the sand
  • Wolf chasing games outside

W/c 27th February – Three Little Pigs

  • Read the story – discuss the characters and being unique
  • Consider what kind of house we’d choose to live in – e.g castle, rocket, ship
  • Little pigs sensory story
  • Retell the story with props
  • Make food for the pigs in the mud kitchen
  • Blowing paint with straws
  • Build houses and blow them down
  • Build with wet & dry sand – which is better?
  • Learn some materials are waterproof
  • Weave with sticks, straws, ribbon
  • Listening games: what’s the time Mr Wolf
  • Build houses using different construction materials
  • Sequence the story

W/c 20th February – Billy Goats Gruff

  • Share news from half term
  • Read Three Billy Goats Gruff story
  • Order the story in sequence
  • Make a bridge to climb over outside
  • Lounge home corner
  • Make troll face pizzas
  • Mix mud and water to draw trolls
  • Hear “g” in words: Beginning, Middle, End
  • Make trolls and goats in playdoh
  • Build with sand: dry & wet
  • Use instruments to retell the story
  • Follow the map of the Billy Goats
  • Use shaped blocks (2D) to make a bridge
  • Rhyming activities