W/c 23rd June 2025 – Growing up / Going to school

23 Jun 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read ‘The Colour Monster Goes to School’, ‘When I Grow Up’, ‘Going to School’.
• Make self portraits.
• Draw around each other and add features.
• Wash dolls in water tray.
• Think about what school will be like.
• Sports practice.
• Make up stories with figures.
• Put on shoes independently.
• Add candles to playdough cakes.
• Measure the children and order by size.
• What are my favourite things.
• Sort objects by colour.
• How I’ve grown.
• Talk about what they’ve learnt.

W/c 9th & 16th June 2025 – What the Ladybird Heard / What the ladybird heard next.

16 Jun 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about the trip to the farm.
• Look at non fiction books about farm life.
• Read Ladybird heard stories.
• Farm vets role play area.
• Draw paths on playground and follow on bikes.
• Name animals on the farm.
• Play ring games: Duck duck goose.
• Make farm animal masks.
• Match adult and baby animals.
• Bury magnetic objects in sand.
• Goats milk / cheese tasting.
• Kim’s game, guess the animals with clues.
• Identify animal name initial sounds.
• Make homes for animals with construction.
• Animal songs: old Macdonald, Baa Baa…
• Count out correct amount of animals.

W/c 2nd June 2025 – Billy Goats Gruff

2 Jun 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read story with props.
• Consider the problem in the story, how can this be solved?
• Vets role play area.
• Painting characters from the story.
• Try goats cheese and milk.
• Get water to travel using methods.
• Story tuff tray.
• Use grass to create in mud kitchen.
• Build bridges with shaped blocks.
• Cut hair on the troll.
• Make raft / boat for animals to cross water.
• Look at pictures of famous bridges and measure with cubes.
• Sensory story.
• Over and under obstacle course.
• Mould and manipulate sand to shapes.
• Build using different shapes.

W/c 19th May 2025 – Bees-World Bee Day

20 May 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Learn about the bee life cycle.
• Read Bee Story, That’s not my bee.
• Make honey biscuits.
• Make bees with wool and pinecones.
• Play where’s the bee with positional language clues.
• Dance with streamers to Flight of the Bumblebee.
• Have toast with honey.
• Match lowercase and uppercase letters.
• Collect pom pom pollen with tweezers.
• Use balls for different purposes.
• Make playdough bees.
• Use pippettes to move water into honeycomb.
• Bee number bands.

W/c 12th May 2025 – Jack & the Beanstalk

12 May 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read and retell Jack and the Beanstalk.
• Themed tuff tray.
• Measure giant’s footprints with cubes.
• Draw around and measure our own feet.
• Order the story in sequence.
• Grown bean in 3 conditions in key groups.
• Play shopping game.
• Throw balls in target and record how many.
• Build beanstalks with blocks and count.
• Build castles from magnatiles in groups.
• Create foam “clouds” in water tray.
• Use tweezers to find beans in soil.
• Beanstalk hopscotch on playground.
• Monitor and care for our seeds.
• Fill pots with correct amount of water.
• Thread leaves on string to make beanstalk.

W/c 5th May 2025 – How did we grow?

6 May 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Songs and rhymes – Lulu’s garden, Ruby plants a reddish, Mary Mary.
• Non-fiction books about growing, plant life cycle.
• Role play picnic outside.
• Grow sunflowers.
• Café area near mud kitchen.
• Add apples to the tree using dice.
• Small world farm.
• Make vegetables in play dough.
• Tuff spot with compost, trowels, pots.
• Draw fruit and vegetables with chalk.
• Use still life technique to plant flowers.
• Match phonics sounds to vegetables.
• Vegetable hunt in the sand.
• Use cubes to measure different vegetables.
• Look at vegetables with magnifying glass.

W/C 28th April – Superworm

29 Apr 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read the story Superworm with props.
• Superworm tuff tray.
• Find worms in soil using tweezers.
• Consider learnt minibeast facts.
• Use tools to dig in soil in the garden.
• Match the bug to the description.
• Complete pattern on the worms.
• Sort the worms by size.
• Create recipes in the mud kitchen.
• Make home for worms we find.
• Use string to make marks with paint.
• Move like bugs using ribbons.
• Roll playdough to make worms.
• Make worms from loose parts.
• Thread pony beads to make worms.