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

W/c 28th November – Gingerbread Man

28 Nov 2022Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Talk about the story and consider why he kept running away
• Look at alternative stories e.g The Gingerbread Girl
• Decorate the large Gingerbread Man on the playground
• Make a Gingerbread Man and decorate
• Put buttons on Gingerbread Man using tweezers
• Write numbers in flour
• Gingerbread Man tuff spot story
• Make a bridge from construction resources
• Scented ginger/cinnamon play dough
• Order the Gingerbread Men by size
• Hunt for numbered Gingermen using positional clues
• Use gutters to make streams and boats
• Have races using different ways of moving
• Draw Gingerbread Men in the sand
• Play a game with scents
• Bakery/kitchen role play area

W/c 21st November – Goldilocks and the 3 Bears

21 Nov 2022Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Retell stories using props/puppets
• Goldilocks and the 3 bears sensory story
• Talk about the feelings of the characters
• Would you talk to a stranger?
• Three bears cottage role play area
• Use different size bowls/spoons/chairs
• Make marks in porridge
• Make bears from clay in different sizes
• Build houses using different resources
• Use blocks/Duplo/stickle bricks to build beds and chairs for baby bear
• Make bears from loose parts
• Use small house to tell stories
• Make food for the bears in the mud kitchen
• Make homes using junk modelling
• Find letters in the porridge tray and write some

W/c 14th November – Bear Hunt

16 Nov 2022Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Dark den: Investigate shadows with torches
• Read Bear Hunt with Rhythmic knee patting
• Put coats and shoes on independently
• Make binoculars using coloured cellophane and investigate colour mixing
• Order the story
• Children re-enact the story using props
• Make a Bear mask
• Watch about different bears and their habitats
• Sort the bears by colour/size/amount
• Dinosaurs in mud tuff spot – Add Dinosaur Hunt Story
• Hide bears and use positional language
• Sing bear themed songs, e.g The Bear went over the mountain
• Continue to talk about emotions
• Think about descriptive vocabulary “A deep, cold river” “Thick, oozy mud”

W/c 7th November – The Gruffalo

7 Nov 2022Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Share experiences of fireworks from weekend
• Sing songs about Bonfire night
• Read The Gruffalo, talk about the setting and characters
• Paint creatures from The Gruffalo
• Make a shadow puppet theatre
• Practice writing numerals on the Gruffalo pictures
• Build a forest in a tuff spot with small creatures
• Coloured water with leaves and conkers, pans, whisks and spoons to make soup
• Owl ice cream playdoh
• Forest cafe role play with scrambled snake and roasted fox
• Explore shadows in the dark den
• Use magnetic letters to match character names
• Play build your own Gruffalo game
• Practice moving like characters
• Draw a picture of a terrible creature
• Sequence pictures in order
• Talk about Remembrance Day and create poppy craft

W/c 31st October – Halloween/Fireworks

2 Nov 2022Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Fireworks number songs
• Make shape witches and rockets
• Explore rhyming words
• Listen to and share experiences of fireworks
• Dark den: use torches to explore
• Dance: moving like fireworks
• Write letters from names in sand
• Throw tea bags to make firework pictures
• Talk about the need for warmer clothes
• Read Room on the Broom and retell
• Mix primary colours to paint pumpkin pictures
• Hammer golf tees into pumpkins
• Mould dough into pumpkins
• Use musical instruments to make sounds like fireworks
• Make spider webs in salt
• Use tweezers to collect Halloween items from the web

W/c 17th October – Diwali

17 Oct 2022Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Talk about the meaning of Diwali
• Talk about good over evil
• Read the story of Rama and Sita with props
• Make clay Diyas
• Sweet shop role play area
• Draw shapes and add coloured sand to make rangoli patterns
• Build a bridge together for the monkeys
• Use shapes on the lightbox to make patterns
• Use torches to explore the dark
• Make barfi on snack table
• Read other themed stories e.g “Lighting a Lamp”
• Learn new language: rangoli, diya, Hindu goddess, barfi