All posts by Louise Gough

Week Commencing 21st/28th March – Mother’s Day/Easter

  • Learn the Easter Story
  • Talk about Spring/New Life/Eggs/ Plants
  • Read Easter themed stories
  • Fill the baskets with the correct amount of eggs
  • Make up Easter story using props
  • Make a card for Easter & Mother’s Day
  • Little Red Hen tuff spot
  • Make chocolate Easter nests
  • Make marks with wet soil
  • Roll balls in paint to make pictures
  • Find letters in the sand and match to objects
  • Paint the flowers (outside)
  • Easter Rhyming phonics baskets
  • Use tweezers to find things in the sensory tray
  • Talk about our family Easter traditions

Week commencing 14th March – Occupations – Dentist

  • Talk about what we need to keep our teeth clean and healthy
  • Share our experiences of the dentist
  • Talk about what might happen if we don’t look after our teeth, using a model
  • Dentist role play area
  • Learn new songs about teeth brushing
  • Visit from a dental nurse
  • Learn the names of different teeth
  • Make fruit kebabs
  • Letter hunt in the sand
  • Squirt letters on chalk board using spray
  • Gym/keeping fit area outside
  • Use mirrors to explore different sounds we can make
  • Talk about the tooth fairy and how we lose our milk teeth
  • Paint pictures of ourselves with smiley mouths

Week Commencing 7th March – Tiger who came to tea

  • Read the story and retell it in sequence
  • Play environmental sounds game
  • Set up a tea party and make up their own story
  • Play party games
  • Talk about who we could invite for tea
  • Tear strips of paper to create tiger pattern
  • Write cards and invitations
  • Make cakes in the mud kitchen using herbs/petals
  • Use pipettes to fill a teapot
  • Introduce book area outside for quiet time
  • Decorate triangle bunting
  • Chocolate cloud dough
  • Germ activity to show how they are spread
  • Whisk bubbles
  • Use milk bottle tops to copy names
  • Find and names shapes in the sack
  • Tea bags in the water tray with tea set
  • Make roads and talk about safety

Week Commencing 28th February – Bear Hunt

  • Read Bear Hunt story with rhythm using knee patting
  • Children to re-enact using props
  • Work as a team towards a task, e.g parachute
  • Make up stories in the dark cave
  • Build caves and homes for the bears
  • Write letters in the sand using sticks
  • Order the story
  • Count the teddies and match numeral
  • Dinosaurs in the mud tuff spot
  • Mark a path of milk bottle tops using letters from our names
  • Continue to talk about our feelings
  • Cars and road – including road safety
  • Make texture pictures using fabric
  • Large scale story map outside

Week Commencing 21st February – Colour Monster – Emotions

  • Read the story and talk about what makes us feel like that
  • Use pattern cards to sort objects into a sequence
  • What colours are used to keep us safe? Red: danger
  • Cars with the car park, sort by colour
  • Create painted colour monsters to represent our feelings
  • Practice mixing colours
  • Use scarves and light objects in the wind
  • Listen and respond to others
  • Grate chalks to use in sand/mud
  • Learn new songs about colours
  • Make marks in the coloured sand
  • Colour shape monsters
  • Learn the names of different feelings
  • Go on the colour scavenger hunt in the garden

Week Commencing 7th February – Farm Animals

  • Talk about farms and share facts that we know
  • Read farm theme stories e.g Rosie’s Walk/ Mrs wishy Washy’s Farm/Little Red Hen
  • Name farm animals and what type of building do they live in on the farm e.g sty
  • Animal sound lotto
  • Role play farm/make masks
  • Cut the farm pictures and make a book
  • Rosie’s Walk Tuff Spot
  • Sing new animal songs
  • Water painting (outside)
  • Look at what comes out of eggs
  • Link parent to babies
  • Use water and tools to clean Mrs Wishy Washy’s animals

Week commencing 31st January – Walking through the jungle/Wild Animals

  • Read stories about animals e.g Rumble in the Jungle
  • Animal sound lotto
  • Learn new words to describe animals
  • Thread cereal onto laces to make snakes
  • Sort animals by colour or size
  • Move like different animals
  • Mix sand and water and mould animals
  • Noah’s Ark story
  • How many animals will float on a boat
  • Animal songs in the water tray e.g Tiny Turtle
  • Notice details on animals coats/skins
  • Learn about where different animals live
  • Make animal picture, noticing pattern/texture
  • Vet role play area
  • Play Greedy Gorilla game