W/c 11th November – Artists & Fireworks

12 Nov 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Talk about safety in the classroom
• Sing fireworks songs
• Make fireworks pictures outside using Jackson Pollock ideas
• Dance – move like fireworks
• Create catherine wheel pictures with glitter
• Chalk on black paper
• Continue to explore dark
• Make large swirl art in sand
• Use junk modelling to create rockets
• Make rockets with 2D shapes
• Pipettes in water with pots
• Use sparkly playdough
• Shape puzzles

W/c 4th November – Pumpkin Soup

5 Nov 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read stories with props
• Share half term experiences
• Pumpkin café – outside
• Play What’s the time Mr Pumpkin
• Take part in collaborative activity
• Stamp pumpkins and add faces
• Make shadow puppets in dark room
• Make potions
• Sing themed number songs
• Shape sponge painting
• Make pumpkin soup
• Build shapes in the sand
• Write recipes for soup
• Make marks in orange shaving foam
• Kick balls around obstacles
• Hammer golf tees into pumpkins

W/c 21st October – Diwali

21 Oct 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Talk about the meaning of Diwali
• Make Diya lamps
• Dance to Hindi music
• Read story of Rama and Sita
• Make Rangoli patterns
• Use shapes on the lightbox to create patterns – look at symmetry
• Build bridges for the monkeys to cross
• Try Indian snacks on snack table
• Make shadow animals with torches and draw
• Draw Rangoli patterns on playground
• Transfer stars with spoon
• Create Mehndi patterns

W/c 14th October – Autumn

14 Oct 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Talk about what we need to wear outside
• Look at our Autumn treasure bags
• Read pumpkin soup
• Cosy themed role play
• Create outdoor dens
• Make marks in soil and mud
• Tree finger painting
• Autumn sensory tray
• Loose parts pictures with natural resources
• Autumn objects float & sink
• Talk about seasonal changes
• Leaf & bark rubbings
• Playdough hedgehogs with spaghetti
• Autumn treasure hunt
• Initial letter with natural resources
• Thread leaves on string
• Make snips to create dough hedgehogs
• Cut out leaf shapes

W/c 7th October – People who help the community

10 Oct 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Police station home corner
• Talk about road safety
• Make fingerprint pictures with ink pads
• Roll emergency vehicles to make paint tracks
• Learn the numbers of the emergency services
• Talk about fingerprints and how we are unique
• Use spray bottles to put out the “fires”
• Catch the fish from the gloop
• Talk about actions that could hurt – kind hands
• Follow shape outlines with Lego bricks
• Small world – village, road, crossings
• Use metal detectors in the sand
• Shopping game
• Make road signs

W/c 30th September – People who keep us healthy/Zog & the flying doctors

4 Oct 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Learn the role of a health professional
• Senses activities
• Label the doctor’s equipment
• Sort the objects by size
• Dragon play with castle and kings
• Build castles in the sand
• Move the water with syringes
• Potion mixing for medicines
• Doctor surgery role play
• Paint with our hands
• Germs: glitter experiment
• Order letters and write names
• Play ring games
• Make healthy food plates
• Make mud kitchen recipes
• Obstacle course

W/c 23rd September – Dentists

30 Sep 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Talk about what we do to keep our teeth healthy
• Memory game tray
• Mr Tongue story
• Talk about our dentist visits
• Superhero tuff tray
• Use brushes to clean teeth models
• Find letters in the sand
• Tower building outside
• Learn new songs for self care: Here we go round the mulberry bush
• Consider what food does to our teeth
• Clean chalk teeth with brushes and spray bottles
• Complete tasks with 2 minute timer
• Collect teeth from garden for tooth fairy
• Sort foods – happy/ sad teeth
• Dentist surgery role play
• Paint with toothbrushes
• Draw pictures of ourselves with lines & circles
• Toothpaste sensory tray