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Week Commencing 28th February – Bear Hunt

  • Read Bear Hunt story with rhythm using knee patting
  • Children to re-enact using props
  • Work as a team towards a task, e.g parachute
  • Make up stories in the dark cave
  • Build caves and homes for the bears
  • Write letters in the sand using sticks
  • Order the story
  • Count the teddies and match numeral
  • Dinosaurs in the mud tuff spot
  • Mark a path of milk bottle tops using letters from our names
  • Continue to talk about our feelings
  • Cars and road – including road safety
  • Make texture pictures using fabric
  • Large scale story map outside

Week Commencing 21st February – Colour Monster – Emotions

  • Read the story and talk about what makes us feel like that
  • Use pattern cards to sort objects into a sequence
  • What colours are used to keep us safe? Red: danger
  • Cars with the car park, sort by colour
  • Create painted colour monsters to represent our feelings
  • Practice mixing colours
  • Use scarves and light objects in the wind
  • Listen and respond to others
  • Grate chalks to use in sand/mud
  • Learn new songs about colours
  • Make marks in the coloured sand
  • Colour shape monsters
  • Learn the names of different feelings
  • Go on the colour scavenger hunt in the garden

Week Commencing 7th February – Farm Animals

  • Talk about farms and share facts that we know
  • Read farm theme stories e.g Rosie’s Walk/ Mrs wishy Washy’s Farm/Little Red Hen
  • Name farm animals and what type of building do they live in on the farm e.g sty
  • Animal sound lotto
  • Role play farm/make masks
  • Cut the farm pictures and make a book
  • Rosie’s Walk Tuff Spot
  • Sing new animal songs
  • Water painting (outside)
  • Look at what comes out of eggs
  • Link parent to babies
  • Use water and tools to clean Mrs Wishy Washy’s animals

Week commencing 31st January – Walking through the jungle/Wild Animals

  • Read stories about animals e.g Rumble in the Jungle
  • Animal sound lotto
  • Learn new words to describe animals
  • Thread cereal onto laces to make snakes
  • Sort animals by colour or size
  • Move like different animals
  • Mix sand and water and mould animals
  • Noah’s Ark story
  • How many animals will float on a boat
  • Animal songs in the water tray e.g Tiny Turtle
  • Notice details on animals coats/skins
  • Learn about where different animals live
  • Make animal picture, noticing pattern/texture
  • Vet role play area
  • Play Greedy Gorilla game

Week commencing 24th January – Chinese New Year

  • Talk about Chinese New Year and various animals which the myth is based on
  • Learn about the Great Wall of China
  • Chinese restaurant home corner
  • Make pater plate drums and lanterns
  • Use ribbons and move to music
  • Taste different Chinese food at snack time
  • Build our own Great Walls
  • Make a Chinese dragon together
  • Use chopsticks to move cotton balls
  • Create Chinese letters/numbers in glitter
  • Write using fine brush and food dye
  • Play pop up dragon game
  • Chinese New Year Themed parachute games
  • Retell the story with small puppets
  • Gold coin hunt in red and yellow noodles
  • Use tools in mud/water to whisk/mix/sieve

Week commencing 17th January – Arctic/Antarctic Animals

  • Talk about the lost and found story
  • How are characters feeling throughout?
  • Make an igloo role play area inside
  • Talk about what makes us feel lonely
  • Create marks in glitter
  • Copy names by piping glue and cover with glitter
  • Measure polar bears using cubes
  • Make lost and found small world scene
  • Use large blocks to build a row boat/igloo
  • Jump across the ice sheets on the playground
  • Investigate frozen items
  • Small world sea/ocean with water beads
  • Introduce woodwork bench with tools
  • Blubber experiment – how animals keep warm
  • Create lolly stick snowflakes

Week commencing 10th January – Winter

  • Discuss the signs of winter using picture cards
  • Put on coats independently for outside
  • Read winter themed books, e.g “First Snow” “The Snowman” “Gruffalo’s Child”
  • Match the rhyming mittens
  • Playdough Snowballs/Snowmen
  • Measure how long ice melts using timer
  • Winter wonderland themed tuff spot
  • Build dens for animals using natural resources
  • Paint with coloured ice
  • Make recipes in mud kitchen
  • Make winter sounds using instruments
  • Find things on the winter hunt list
  • Use magnetic letters to print in salt/glitter
  • Investigate items frozen in ice
  • Cut snowflakes with paper
  • Make snowballs in cornflower gloop