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W/c 1st July – Olympics – Sports Day

  • Read stories – The Frog Olympics, My first sports day
  • Healthy café – outdoor role play
  • Design a flag
  • Musical rings game
  • Find Paris on European Map
  • Volleyball in sandpit
  • Olympic rings threading
  • Best sandcastle competition
  • Talk about how to have a healthy diet
  • Bring in certificates/medals to show from home
  • Garden games: sack race, hoops and cones, track race
  • Mini ice hockey – spoons & bottle lid

W/c 24th June – Holidays

  • Share experiences of holidays
  • Parachute beach ball game
  • Read stories: Spot goes on holiday, Rosie’s Hat, What the ladybird heard on holiday
  • Ice cream tuff tray with sand dough
  • Airplane role play
  • Make fruit smoothie ice lollies
  • Write postcards
  • Duplo planes
  • Sandcastles – design and build
  • Magnetic fishing game
  • Make vehicles out of shapes
  • Find characters in jelly using tongs
  • Volleyball in sandpit
  • Junk modelling – vehicles
  • World map floor puzzles

W/c 17th June – Football-Euros-Keeping Healthy

  • Think about what promotes “good health”
  • Read “Goal” and “Noah’s Football Magic”
  • Learn new vocabulary: referee, penalty, half-time
  • Football tuff tray
  • Design a football t-shirt or football using patterns
  • Play games and keep scores with mark making tools
  • Use shape stencils to add pentagons and hexagons on footballs
  • Look at different flags for Euro teams
  • Move the balls with spray bottles
  • Use tweezers to sort ball shape beads by colour
  • Introduce tally system to record goals
  • Talk about our personal football knowledge and experience
  • Roll balls in paint to make patterns
  • Balance the balls onto tees
  • Roll the ball to our chosen friend during group time
  • Which balls float or sink?

W/c 10th June – Rainbow Fish/ Under the Sea

  • Read stories: That’s not my shark, Rainbow Fish, Tiddler
  • Learn new language, e.g Sea Creatures
  • Ice cream parlour role play
  • Make sea life creatures
  • Write with lolly sticks
  • Make ocean music with instruments
  • New sea themed rhymes
  • Build vehicles with blocks: planes, boats, cars
  • Make submarines
  • Rescue frozen sea creatures
  • Make straw necklace
  • Make parachute waves

W/c 3rd June – Sharing a shell

  • Talk about sharing/turn taking
  • Seaside café outdoor role play
  • Read stories about the seaside: Snail & the Whale, Commotion in the Ocean, Tiddler
  • Learn initial sound of sea creatures
  • Make playdough shells
  • Fathers Day crafts
  • Make waves with the parachute
  • Share seaside experiences
  • Explore using magnifying glasses
  • Sand paint pictures
  • Make up story using sack
  • Explore patterns – footprints, waves, shells
  • Seaside themed missing item game
  • Create sea creatures
  • Use shells to make creatures

W/c 20th May – What other things come from eggs?

  • Read the Odd Egg, That’s not my frog
  • Consider what hatches out of an egg
  • Pass the egg, guess what’s inside
  • Look at pictures of egg and think about the reptiles that grow in them
  • Eggs with paint in tuff tray
  • Use the egg shakers to follow a rhythm
  • Copy the patterns on the eggs
  • Move the eggs along the drainpipes
  • Set up a pond for frogs
  • Parachute egg toss
  • Egg/nest number bonds
  • Measure the length of our frog jumps
  • Rhyming eggs hidden in the garden
  • Watch different animal life cycles

W/c 13th May – The Ugly Duckling

  • Learn duck rhymes
  • Match word to picture egg
  • Match the sound eggs
  • Make pancakes
  • Pond small world tray
  • Make ink/paint marks with feathers
  • Watch life cycle of ducks/swans
  • Feed the duck the correct amount of worms
  • Talk about what makes us special/unique
  • Sort animals by colour size
  • Make eggs in playdough
  • Use fingers to peck out of bowl
  • Use large letters in sand – then find phonetic matching to find items
  • Explore floating & sinking
  • Move like animals on the playground
  • Egg hunt in sand pit
  • Draw letters