This week we will:

• Talk about Christmas traditions
• Practice Nativity
• Christmas craft – envelopes, cards, wrapping paper, baubles
• Pin the nose on the snowman
• Decorate the tree with baubles
• Leap like a reindeer
• Use puppets to tell stories
• Build Christmas shapes using magnetic shapes
• Freeze Christmas natural objects
• Make gloop and roll into snowballs
• Christmas wrapping area: sellotape, string, scissors
• Use blocks to build a Christmas scene
• Put antler pegs on reindeer, matching colours
• Remove starts from foam using tweezers
• Match the shape envelopes to the post boxes

This week we will:

• Talk about the story of the gingerbread man
• Look at alternative stories
• Design & make gingerbread men
• Ginger spiced playdoh
• Cut people & join using split pins
• Put buttons on gingerbread men using tweezers
• Make a bridge across the river
• Practice nativity songs
• Use puppets to tell stories
• Make/bake things in the mud kitchen
• Draw around children on playground to make gingerbread men

This week we will:

• Learn new rhymes
• Read stories and look for rhyming words
• Paint using tea bags
• Make flowers for Mary Mary
• Make obstacles to jump over, e.g Hey Diddle Diddle
• Perform nursery rhymes on the stage
• Sing ring songs e.g Hokey Cokey
• Use big movements for action songs
• Introduce woodwork tools
• Draw stars in glitter
• Introduce rhyme sacks
• How can we look after ourselves?

This week we will:

• Talk about why the day is special and the meaning behind poppies
• Make poppies and role play selling them at a stall
• Role play doctors area for treating the wounded
• Talk about occupations/families
• Match the poppies with the numbers
• Make biscuits into poppies using icing
• Make painted poppies using handprints and apples
• Make poppy field landscapes using fingerprints
• Use playdoh on poppy themed mats and tools
• Use poppy themed colouring pages
• Use different shapes to make poppies
• Draw poppies in sand and glitter
• Use coloured water with bubbles and cupcake cases

This week we will:

• Sing firework songs with sounds
• Make a dark den and use torches
• Talk about the festival of light
• Make fireworks in the sand
• Draw rangoli patterns with chalk on the playgrounds
• Dance like like fireworks
• Listen to the story of Rama & Sita
• Make fireworks out of shapes
• Explore sparkly playdough
• Make catherine wheel pictures with glitter
• Make 3D junk model rockets
• Talk about safety at bonfire night

This week we will:

• Make soup in the mud kitchen, write recipes
• Read themed stories: Room on the Broom, Pumpkin Sup, That’s not my bat
• Make ghost pictures in the foam
• Match the Halloween rhyming words
• Mix potions in the water tray
• Hammer golf tees into the pumpkins
• Search for spiders outside
• Move around on broomsticks
• Draw legs on the spiders
• Play what’s the time Mrs Witch
• Mould the dough into pumpkins
• Make shadow pictures with torches

Remember it is Halloween Mufti on Monday 18th and Thursday 21st October.

Autumn walk – Monday and Thursday 09:30 – 11:30

This week we will:

• Talk about the changes to the season – what clothes should we wear? what has happened to the environment?
• Learn new songs for Autumn
• Listen to Autumn theme stories – ‘We’re going on a leaf hunt’, ‘Leaf Man’.
• Learn new words such as Hibernation, foraging….
• Number 5 – find 5 natural objects eg conkers
• Conker rolling painting
• Float and sink natural objects
• Build homes for animals which hibernate
• Make hedgehogs in playdough, count prickles
• Practise putting coats on
• create leaf and bark rubbings

Please remember to bring back your reading books so we can swap them for you to enjoy a new story together.