W/c 27th February – Three Little Pigs

27 Feb 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• 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

22 Feb 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• 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

W/c 30th January – Dear Zoo/Animal Patterns

30 Jan 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Talk about “what is your favourite animal?”
• Guess the animal in the sack – follow the descriptive clues
• Rainforest café role play area
• Free painting of favourite animals
• Build habitats for animals – junk modelling
• Make patterns in sand, e.g Spots/Stripes
• Play animal lotto/snap
• Link elephants
• Move like animals
• Write letters to someone
• Walking through the jungle tuff spot
• Sea creatures in water tray
• Sort and count animals
• Make up stories using animals and objects
• Use tweezers to give Cheetah pom pom spots
• Threading pasta/cereal to make snakes

W/c 23rd January – Chinese New Year

23 Jan 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Chinese restaurant home corner
• Draw Chinese numbers in the sand
• Try some Chinese food at snack time
• Build a dragon for dragon dancing
• Create paper plate drum
• Listen to Chinese New Year story
• Learn about the Great Wall of China
• Put the right amount of gold coins in envelopes
• Measure noodles using cubes
• Build walls using blocks
• Collect bottle tops from water using chopsticks
• Retell story using animal puppets
• Consider similarities/differences between celebrating our New Year
• Chinese blossom painting

W/c 16th January – Zog & the Flying Doctors

18 Jan 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Learn the role of a doctor
• Read Zog and the Flying Doctors, Dragon Princess Mirror Belle & the Dragon Pox
• Make potions in the water and mud kitchen
• Build castles using different construction toys
• Put the right amount of gems on the crowns
• Doctor themed cutting sheets
• Doctor surgery role play area
• Knights and castle tuff tray
• Move the cotton wool balls with tweezers
• Use pipettes to move coloured water to ice cube trays
• Build castles in the sand
• Use potato printing to make shapes into castles
• Design & make a crown
• Experiment with sound and percussion to make castle noises
• Knight’s obstacle course
• Sing rhymes including Miss Polly had a Dolly, Heads, Shoulders, Knees & toes, 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

W/c 9th January – Stars & Space

16 Jan 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Think about our Christmas experiences
• Make a wish upon a star – adult to scribe
• Alien from another planet – consider how we would care for it
• Sing themed songs – Twinkle Twinkle/ Star Light, Star Bright, 5 little Men in a Flying Saucer
• Read themed stories – e.g Aliens love Underpants
• Draw aliens and count their legs etc
• Space rocket game with dice
• Build a rocket using magnets
• Write a story together using themed objects in the sack
• Focus on collecting stars from gel with tweezers
• Thread beads and cotton reels to make aliens
• Free the aliens from green goop
• Chalk rockets to do a rocket race
• Set up a picnic area on the moon
• Make different sounds to music and move like aliens
• Freeze aliens in ice – consider how we can free them
• Tuff spot with chalks to draw aliens
• Hide themed objects in cardboard boxes using torches to find out what they are
• Glitter writing/ writing in sand colour

W/c 5th & 12th December – Christmas!

5 Dec 2022Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Talk about Christmas and think about its meaning
• Practice Nativity
• Listen to Christmas themed stories
• Use puppets to tell stories
• Wrapping area – scissors, Sellotape, ribbon
• Turn into Santa with fireplace
• Sing Christmas songs
• Christmas craft activities
• Make snowballs with gloop
• Use magnets to move items from a bottle
• Nativity tuff spot
• Build Christmas trees with blocks
• Measure how tall we are with ribbon
• Put baubles on the trees
• Follow the number path to deliver presents