- Read Owl Babies with props
- Talk about how each owl felt during the story
- Discuss have you ever felt lonely, scared, sad, happy
- Cafe role play area
- Use natural media to make owls
- Make marks with feathers
- Sort & count natural objects
- Talk about road safety
- Work as a team to complete a task
- Find out facts about owls
- Use guttering to move objects
- Make nests from dough and natural objects
- Use scissor snips to create feathers
- Make marks in sand with sticks
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W/c 25th September – Families
- Discuss our families
- Think about different family members – e.g who is the tallest?
- Read stories with puppets
- Sing nursery rhymes with props
- Create gingerbread people
- Salt in the square tuff spot
- Think about body parts
- Hide name cards in sand and find and label
- Make a car out of large blocks and think of journeys we go on
- People dressing up puzzles
- Make faces out of play dough
- Draw around each other and compare heights
- Draw around hands and count fingers
W/c 18th September – Ourselves
- To notice and describe faces
- Read stories with puppets e.g “Colour Monster” “Owl Babies”
- Baby clinic themed role play, practice dressing dolls
- Paint self portraits using mirrors
- Make marks in shaving foam
- Threading with small beads
- Move using different parts of our body
- Listening games, e.g bean game
- Make faces in sand using natural objects for features
- Colour Monster – what makes us feel different emotions
- Touch and feel sensory books – use descriptive words
- Use large chalks on the playground
- Draw round hands and count fingers
W/c 11th Sept – Nursery Rhymes
- Learn new rhymes
- Look at the nursery rhyme sacks
- Talk about feelings – how did Humpty Dumpty feel?
- Ask what is our favourite rhymes
- use instruments to add rhythm to rhymes
- Explore spiders and drainpipes
- Songs in the water tray – explore floating and sinking
- Draw happy/sad faces on Incy Wincy spider
- Lightbox with stars
- Plant bulbs like Mary Mary
- Make spiders with 8 legs
- Nursery rhyme jigsaw puzzles
- Ring songs, e.g Hokey Cokey, Mulberry Bush
- Make jam tarts in playdoh
- Move buses along the road, people and vehicles
W/c 10th July – Rosie’s Hat – Seaside
- Read seaside stories – Rosie’s hat, Spot goes on holiday, What the ladybird heard on holiday
- Ice cream parlour role play
- Make ocean music using instruments
- Learn about pollution/littering
- Parachute: Make waves for beachball
- Write letters in coloured sand
- Learn how wind can change appearance and position of things
- Investigate weight using buckets and seaside items e.g pebbles
- Make sea creatures from playdough
- Cutting skills – create octopus tentacles
- Play volleyball in sandpit
- Experiment with sand to make castles
- Magnetic fishing game
- Make marks in coloured sand
- Make messages for bottles
- Use tongs to find items in jelly
- Share stories/experiences of holidays
W/c 3rd July – Special Journeys
- Share stories of journeys we’ve been on
- Listen and sing along to Journey home from Grandpa’s
- Consider descriptive words for journey, e.g “bumpy”
- Make a map for a journey we remember
- Transport role play e.g aeroplane, bus
- Clap syllables for transport vehicles
- Make waterways using gutters for Boats
- Program Beebot
- Move vehicles through flour to make tracks
- Write tickets, passports, booking forms
- Role play using money to buy tickets
- Makes marks using pens on vehicles
- Mini car wash using toothbrushes
- Sing transport songs with instruments
- Numbered vehicles and car park
- Make road using duplo
W/c 26th June – A Squash and a Squeeze
- Copy the patterns on the eggs
- Make towers and knock over with bean bags
- Squash and a Squeeze story with props
- Hear and identify rhyming words
- Make frittatas
- Make patterns in sand tray
- Match eggs to numeral
- Watch egg life cycle and revisit knowledge
- Play duck duck, goose, farmers in his den
- Squeeze different items into a tent e.g balloons
- Make pet food in mud kitchen
