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W/c 26th September – Healthy Foods/Supertato

  • Search the garden for Evil Peas
  • Read supertato stories
  • Supermarket role play area
  • Food related number songs: 5 currant buns, 10 fat sausages
  • Order fruit by weight/colour
  • Make pitta pizzas
  • Collage – healthy eating plate
  • Rescue the super veg
  • Threading cereal hoops/pasta tubes
  • Float/sink: Fruit and veg
  • Look inside fruit using magnifying glasses
  • Write shopping lists
  • Make supertato
  • Feely bag with fruit and veg
  • Make sounds with pots and pans
  • Clap syllables of pictures
  • Explore fruit frozen in ice cubes

W/c 19th September – Handa’s Surprise

  • Listen to the story of Handa’s Surprise and think about the setting and characters
  • Think about the colours of the fruit we eat
  • Guess what fruit is in the bag by the clues
  • Sort the foods by colour
  • Use name cards to make different marks
  • Fruit market role play area
  • Paint pictures of fruit and vegetables
  • Weighing and measuring – predict which fruits will be heavier/lighter
  • Use clear bottles and pipettes for colour mixing
  • Play the traffic light game
  • Dancing with coloured scarves and ribbons
  • Use puppets to tell stories
  • Threading coloured beads
  • Make colourful fruit kebabs
  • Make a large rainbow as a group

W/c 12th September – Colour Around Us

  • What colours are used to make us feel safe?
  • Think about how we have different coloured: eyes/hair/skin
  • Read themed stories: The Mixed Up Chameleon, Elmer, Brown Bear, brown bear
  • Think about the coloured food we eat
  • Mixing colours: light box, painting
  • Draw pictures of rainbows
  • Paint self portraits
  • Dance with coloured scarves
  • Sort small cars in coloured car park spaces
  • Colour scavenger hunt
  • Threading coloured beads
  • Play the Traffic light game
  • Make colourful fruit kebabs
  • Grate chalks in mud kitchen

W/c 5th September – Summer Days

Welcome to all our wonderful families, we hope you had a fantastic summer. We can’t wait to hear all about it!

  • Share experiences of summer days
  • Talk about the weather, how have we protected ourselves?
  • Learn about/ remember our rules and boundaries
  • Read stories: at the airport, camping story etc
  • Draw a picture of “my summer” – adult to scribe
  • Write letters in sprinkles using lolly sticks/fingers
  • Make sea creatures from playdoh
  • Use tweezers to put the right amount of ice cream onto the numbered cones
  • Make waves in the parachute
  • Marshmallow & fruit kebab skewers
  • Build sandcastles
  • Make den outside into a caravan
  • Fishing with nets

W/c 11th July – Going to School

  • Share experiences of school visits, talk about teachers, uniform, classroom etc
  • School themed role play area
  • Make pictures of nursery uniform
  • Make self portraits for diplay
  • Design a heart: what we love at nursery
  • Take part in activities that involve turn taking and sharing resources
  • School small world set up
  • Read books about School, e.g “Colour Monster”
  • Make faces in the sand using pebbles/shells
  • Make going to school book
  • Hopscotch in the playground
  • Play team sports: football/basketball
  • Sink and float household objects
  • Sew letters of our names
  • Move using whole bodies, e.g Traffic Light game
  • Hide objects in the sand to count
  • Make marks with chalk on playground

W/c 20th June – Pirates

  • Make up a pirate name using alliteration
  • Share new stories about pirates e.g The Pirates Next Door
  • Make maps
  • Build a balance beam for pirates
  • Build pirate ships using duplo/lego
  • Small world pirate island
  • Private treasures posting challenge
  • Thread beads to make necklaces
  • Revisit floating & sinking
  • Find the magnetic objects in the bottle
  • Put the elastic bands on hooks
  • Learn pirate songs
  • Make pirate flags
  • Pirate cafe role play – make food to serve
  • Dig for objects
  • Practice for Sports Day
  • Begin Graduation practice
  • Collect treasure with tweezers
  • Explore bubble dough, glittery dough, moon sand

W/c 6th June – The Farm

  • Share our experiences of the farm
  • Read themed stories about animals
  • Sing animal themed songs e.g “Old Macdonald”
  • Match animals with their babies
  • Revisit our knowledge of what comes from an egg
  • Animal sound lotto
  • 3 little pigs home area
  • Make farm pictures using tap a shapes
  • Learn about the produce we get from farm animals
  • Make homes for animals using blocks/sticks/shapes
  • Use farm animals to make sequences
  • Make hoof prints in soil using potato prints
  • Follow positional language to find animals in the garden
  • Make farm animals for display