W/c 13th November – Three Little Pigs

13 Nov 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read the story and discuss the different characters
• Order the story in sequence
• Create story map
• Make food for the pigs in the mud kitchen
• Design a house – use different materials
• Repeated ABAB threading pattern
• Make houses and pigs out of shapes
• Build houses from different construction materials and test strength using fan
• Blow paint with straws
• Build houses in sand pit using wet and dry sand
• Make playdough pigs
• Play listening games e.g. Traffic light game
• Cut yellow paper to make straw
• Mark making in coloured sand

W/c 6th November – Billy Goats Gruff/ Remembrance Day

6 Nov 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read the 3 Billy Goats Gruff story with props
• Use instruments to retell the story
• Build bridges using blocks
• Listen to Remembrance day story
• Order the goats by size
• Make poppy fields using resources in frames
• Cut hair on trolls
• Place trolls in different places and describe using positional language
• Make pizza troll faces
• Follow the map for the Billy Goats
• Make a bridge with large blocks/crates
• Make a raft/boat for the animals

W/c 30th October – Room on the Broom

1 Nov 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Match the Halloween rhyming words
• Talk about Trick or Treating – staying safe and with an adult
• Read Stories, Room on the Broom, Funny Bones, Pumpkin Soup
• Re-tell stories with props
• Match the Spider’s legs by dots to numbers
• Decorate pumpkins using different shapes
• Sponge painting with shapes
• Sing nursery rhymes using props
• Cave area outside – add spiders, bats & cats & count how many of each
• Make shadow pictures using torches – inside & outside
• Play ring games with music
• Incy wincy spider – what things fit through the drain pipe
• Soup recipes in the mud kitchen
• Ghost pictures in foam
• Make potions & volcanoes

W/c 16th October – The Gruffalo

16 Oct 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read the story in small groups and encourage them to join in to fill in words
• Sequence pictures in order
• Children to talk about their favourite food
• Gruffalo dice game
• Sensory play: Scrambled snake, owl ice cream, Gruffalo crumble
• Add the peg prickles to the Gruffalo
• Make crispy Gruffalo cakes
• Paint creatures from the Gruffalo story
• Move like animals in the story
• Shadow puppet theatre
• Find the numbered Gruffalos in sequence
• Measure and sort flour footprints by size

W/c 9th October – Autumn

9 Oct 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Autumn Walks – Monday & Wednesday. Set off from nursery at 9:30am and return at 11:30am
  
• Read Autumn themed books, e.g. Leaf man, We’re going on a leaf hunt
• Learn new songs for Autumn
• Cosy cottage themed role play (indoors)
• Natural café (outside)
• Thread the leaves on the string
• Create Autumn pictures with natural items
• Conker in paint rolling
• Make leaf/bark rubbings
• Learn new words e.g. Hibernate, deciduous, acorn, chestnut, conkers, foraging
• Finger painted tree
• Make leaf soup
• Discuss seasonal changes
• Make playdough hedgehogs
• Use natural objects for one for one counting

W/c 2nd October – Owl Babies

2 Oct 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• 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

W/c 25th September – Families

27 Sep 2023Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• 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