- 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
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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