W/c 29th January – Hot Weather/ Handa’s Surprise/Colour

29 Jan 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Listen to Handa’s Surprise, consider the setting and characters
• Look at the different colours of things
• What animal is in the bag?
• Use animal puppets to create stories
• Fruit market role play area
• Still life – fruit painting
• Fruit printing
• Dance with coloured scarves and ribbons
• Weaving using ribbons
• Environment colour hunt
• Jungle tuff tray
• Play traffic light game
• Make fruit kebabs
• Colour changing experiment with pipettes
• Use scales for weighing and comparing
• Playing musical instruments
• Sort food by colour

W/c 15th January – Monkey Puzzle/ walking through the jungle

15 Jan 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Share stories, Walking through the jungle, Monkey Puzzle, Dear Zoo
• Talk about our favourite animals
• Animal songs and number rhymes
• Move like animals
• Jungle tuff tray
• Make marks in sand with animals
• Sort animals by colour/size
• Look at different patterns on animals
• Thread pasta to make snakes
• Paper plate lion cutting activity
• Think about how we have changed since babies
• Look at the butterfly life cycle
• Paint animal pictures considering size, colour, texture, patterns

W/c 8th January – Stickman/Seasons

8 Jan 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read Stickman & look at the different seasons book
• Listen to the story and think about the different times of year, can we remember the names of the seasons?
• Use sticks to make shapes & write in the sand
• Find natural resources outside to create our own Stickman
• Thread leaves on sticks using hole punch
• Cosy home corner – add scarves and gloves with mirror for trying things on
• Stickman tuff spot with with animals and objects related to story
• Move sticks in the water in different ways
• Consider what natural resources sink and float
• Collect different leaves to create men with sticks – notice the different shapes of the leaves
• Pooh stick races – predict who will come first, second, third
• Make letter using natural resources

W/c 4th/11th December – Christmas & Hanukkah

8 Dec 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Talk about the meaning of Christmas
• Read stories with Christmas theme
• Hanukkah – play dreidel game
• Christmas wrapping station
• Festive home area
• Christmas crafts
• Make handprint menorah
• Use tweezers to add pom poms to trees
• Peppermint scented water tray
• Use magnet wand to move magnetic objects in jug
• Decorate dreidels using pipettes to colour mix
• move like different festive items
• Listen to rhythm stories
• Make ABAB patterns with pony beads

W/c 27th November – Gingerbread Man

27 Nov 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read the original tale and look at alternative stories e.g Gingerbread Girl
• Practice nativity songs
• Re-enact story, taking on roles and remembering repeated refrains
• Put the correct amount of buttons on the Gingerbread
• Order Gingerbread men by size
• Make bridge out of large construction
• Manipulate junk modelling for a purpose
• Ginger scented playdough
• Make clay Gingerbread people
• Use tweezers to decorate gingerbread people
• Make maps of Gingerbread Man’s journey
• Practice cutting out gingerbread men
• Play senses game with different smells
• Make a stream from gutters
• Numbered Gingerbread man hunt outside

W/c 21st November – Goldilocks & the three Bears

24 Nov 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Retell story with props/puppets
• Crime scene – who stole the porridge?
• Talk about keeping safe – would you go in someone’s house you didn’t know?
• continue to make houses with junk modelling
• Make marks in porridge
• Sort bears by size
• Subtising to 3
• Make bear faces from natural objects
• Make patterns with coloured bears
• Make bear food in mud kitchen
• Tell stories using small houses and environmental items e.g road, forest
• Three bears cottage role play area
• Sorting emotion pictures
• Build chairs, beds, house with construction toys
• Make bear sandwiches

W/c 13th November – Three Little Pigs

13 Nov 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• 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