W/c 3rd Nov 2025 – Fireworks – Light & Sound

3 Nov 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Set up “fireworks night” area with pretend snacks, tickets and glow sticks.
• Talk about how we feel during fireworks.
• Create “friendship flames”.
• Play “What’s that sound?” matching game.
• Use storybooks for sequencing and recall: Billy’s fireworks night, Bernie Sparks etc.
• Build a “bonfire” with sticks.
• Make fireworks pictures outside using different techniques.
• Discuss why we see fireworks.
• Make simple sound shakers.
• Floating fireworks – using coloured oil.
• Explore light and dark using torches.
• Use Jackson Pollock painting technique.
• Create shape rockets with 2D shapes.
• Threading glow bead necklaces.

W/c 20th October 2025 – Diwali

23 Oct 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about celebrations at home.
• Set up “celebration table” in role play.
• Turn taking game – pass the light.
• Listen to Diwali story.
• Hide shiny gems in the sand.
• Create rangoli art with coloured rice.
• Make chalk paint.
• Make diya lamps and paint.
• Explore 2D shapes through Rangoli.
• Make repeating patterns through colour.
• Diwali puzzles.
• Listening game – identify Diwali sounds.
• Dance with ribbons.
• Mud kitchen – make festival treats.
• Simple light investigation.

W/c 5th October 25 – Autumn

6 Oct 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about the change in season and weather.
• Cosy home area – hot chocolate, blankets, slippers etc.
• We’re going on a leaf hunt story.
• Listening walk outside for birds, wind, nature.
• Leaves on trees – dice game.
• Arm circles with ribbons.
• Autumn themed tuff tray.
• Consider road safety – Autumn Walk.
• Build homes for animals which hibernate.
• Autumn objects describing game.
• Collage hedgehogs with natural textures.
• Leaf rubbings with crayons.
• Learn about animal hibernation.
• Playdough hedgehogs with spaghetti / twigs.

W/c 29th September 25 – Bear Hunt

29 Sep 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Use props to retell the story.
• Make ‘thick, oozy mud pies’ in the mud kitchen.
• Write letters in sand tray using sticks.
• Make up stories in the dark.
• Feel different natural textures.
• Tear paper to make ‘grass’.
• Swirling, whirling scarves in the air.
• Count steps to the cave.
• Make playdough bears.
• Painting with fingers to make mud prints.
• Explore loud/quiet sounds with instruments.
• Paint with big rollers and brushes.
• Containers to pour and splash.
• Sequencing story cards.
• Body percussion.
• Compare footprint sizes.
• Pass the bear circle game.

W/c 22nd September 25 – Dear Zoo

24 Sep 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Consider which animals would make good pets and why.
• Support turn taking with animal props.
• Retell the story using props.
• Outside train using large blocks.
• Care for animals in the home corner.
• Sequence the story with picture cards.
• Make animal masks using paper plates.
• Sing animal action sounds.
• Use scissors to make snips for feathers.
• Talk about pets at home.
• Create zoo dinners / pet food in the mud kitchen.
• Float sink predictions with animals.
• Make lions mane using pegs.
• Sorting animals.
• Move like animals in the story.

W/c 15th Sept 25 – Nursery Rhymes

17 Sep 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Learn / sing nursery rhymes during group time, focusing on 1 per day – recap on Friday.
• Join with partner to row, row, your boat.
• Sensory tray with foil, glitter, stars.
• Look for rhyming pairs in stories.
• Water play for Incy Wincy spider.
• Obstacle course to deliver Baa Baa’s wool.
• Nursery rhyme themed craft.
• Stars on the light box.
• Make spiders from playdough.
• Draw emotion faces on Humpty Dumpty.
• Counting songs: 5 Little Ducks, Speckled Frogs.
• Build bus with large blocks, passengers to sing Wheels on the Bus.
• Make music to play with rhymes.
• Use positional language e.g. Hickory Dickory mouse.
• Talk about daily routines.
• Sequencing rhyme cards.

W/c 30th June 25 – Sharing a shell / Rainbow fish

30 Jun 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read stories like Commotion in the Ocean, Rainbow fish, Sharing a shell.
• Sing sea life themed songs.
• Aeroplane using large blocks.
• Discuss how to be a good friend.
• Make playdough sea creatures.
• Paint with sand paint.
• Use magnetic shapes to build seaside objects.
• Catch the fish and ducks.
• Play volleyball in the sand.
• Collect coins with the magnet.
• Seaside tuff tray.
• Make sea creatures.
• Draw a picture of our friends.
• Match the phonic sound.
• How far can you roll the ball?
• Design a sandcastle.