W/C 17th March 2025 – Growing / Babies

18 Mar 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• What do babies need?
• How do we develop over time?
• Read stories with puppets.
• Home area – take on different family roles.
• Finger print with ink.
• Create marks with pens on vehicles.
• Create marks using vehicles in tray with sand.
• Farm small world with baby animals.
• Bath babies with sponges, clothes, towels.
• Compare heights.
• Listening game for movements.
• Busy book with fastenings.
• Build vehicle with large blocks and tyres.
• Sensory play.
• Flavoured play dough.
• Make loose part people in sand.
• Happyland village.
• Yoga.
• Thread cotton reels.

W/c 10th March 2025 – Tiger Who Came to Tea

10 Mar 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about who you would like to invite for tea.
• Home area – prepping a meal.
• Set up a tea party – think about why we have parties.
• Plant cress.
• Orange & black shaving foam.
• Write in loose tea leaves.
• Germ experiment.
• Shape monster.
• Transfer sugar cubes to tea cup.
• 1 minute movement challenge.
• Make tiger tail with bead pattern.
• Orange playdough.
• Animal songs in the water tray.
• Make cakes in mud kitchen.
• Tea party in the sand.
• Environmental sounds game.

W/c 3rd March 25 – Senses / Pancake Day

4 Mar 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Talk about tastes & smells we don’t like.
• Use our senses.
• Feely box.
• Outdoor senses hunt.
• I Spy initial sounds.
• Make string cups for listening.
• Copy egg shaker sounds.
• Scented playdough.
• Scented bags in sensory room.
• Make pancakes – taste fillings options.
• Smell fruits on snack table & guess identity.
• How does it feel tuff tray.
• Use natural objects to make faces in sand.
• Walk barefoot on different textures.
• Copy actions in movement games.
• Use touch and feel books.

W/c 25th February 2025 – Dinosaurs

25 Feb 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Look at fiction and non fiction books.
• Learn names and facts about dinosaurs.
• Make repeated patterns with dinosaurs.
• Make fossil using clay.
• Potato print dinosaur footprints.
• Dinosaur hopscotch.
• Put correct amount of eggs in nests.
• Rescue dinosaurs from swap with tweezers.
• Create dinosaur land tuff spot.
• Remember and recreate volcano experiment.
• Learn vocabulary: extinct, herbivore, carnivore, archaeologist, jurassic.
• Put pegs on dinosaurs for spikes.
• Go on a dinosaur hunt.
• Make dinosaur shaped sandwiches.
• Make marks in the mud.
• Sort dinosaurs by properties.

W/c 10th February 2025 – Birds

11 Feb 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read themed books – Eggs are quiet.
• Learn new vocabulary.
• Pretend to be birds – freeze game.
• Make love bird card.
• Copy the patterns.
• Make marks with feathers.
• Learn new facts about birds.
• Make bird feeder outside.
• Number rhymes.
• Measuring worms.
• Play hide the owl game.
• Magnetic shape birds.
• Heart biscuit.
• Use tweezers to put eggs in nests.
• Match the beginning sounds – eggs.

W/c 3rd February 2025 – Owl Babies / Mental Health Week

3 Feb 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read Owl Babies with props.
• Talk about how Sarah, Percy and Bill felt when they found their mother gone / had returned.
• Cafe role play.
• Print owl using different objects – think about shape and colour.
• Make loose part faces.
• Practice writing initial capital letter in chalk.
• Paint using feathers.
• Talk about a good sleep routine for us, and how owls are nocturnal / the opposite.
• Sort the objects and count.
• Learn new facts about owls.
• Tree and bean bag game.
• Sort feathers by colour.
• Make nest, using paper cutting strips.

W/c 27 January 2025 – Chinese New Year

3 Feb 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Learn new themed vocabulary.
• Chinese restaurant role play area.
• Make Chinese paper lanterns.
• Make paper plate drums.
• Paint Chinese blossom trees.
• Listen and dance to Chinese music.
• Join in with instruments.
• Dragon dancing.
• Make patterns in the sand.
• What is Chinese New Year? How do they celebrate?
• Retell animal story with puppets.
• Use chopsticks to move cotton balls.
• Put the right amount of eggs in nests.
• Imitate Chinese numerals in mud/sand.
• Tasting Chinese food.
• Match shapes in the sand.