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W/c 31st March 2025 – Easter / New Life

  • Talk about Easter including traditions.
  • Share Easter stories.
  • Make up stories with Easter props.
  • Follow positional clues to find the chick.
  • Fill the eggs using pipettes and water.
  • Easter dot to dot pictures.
  • Egg hunt.
  • Easter tuff tray.
  • Easter craft.
  • Wash ducks with sponges.
  • Match phonic eggs in water.
  • Ball rolling in paint.
  • Make marks in wet soil.
  • Move our bodies like animals.

Happy Easter!

W/c 24th March 2025 – A Squash and a Squeeze

  • Listen to A Squash and a Squeeze, Through the Jungle, Old Macdonald.
  • Home area with pets.
  • Play duck duck goose, farmers in his den, musical statues.
  • Copy the pattern on the eggs.
  • Lotto sounds game.
  • Hear rhyming words in story.
  • Guess what animal is in the bag.
  • Sort the animals and compare the amounts.
  • Make towers and knock down with beanbags.
  • Build homes for animals with different shapes.
  • Learn about animal life cycles.
  • Sensory squeezing and squashing.
  • Clap syllables for animal names.
  • Animals need a bath in the water tray.
  • Follow the frog spawn.

W/C 17th March 2025 – Growing / Babies

  • What do babies need?
  • How do we develop over time?
  • Read stories with puppets.
  • Home area – take on different family roles.
  • Finger print with ink.
  • Create marks with pens on vehicles.
  • Create marks using vehicles in tray with sand.
  • Farm small world with baby animals.
  • Bath babies with sponges, clothes, towels.
  • Compare heights.
  • Listening game for movements.
  • Busy book with fastenings.
  • Build vehicle with large blocks and tyres.
  • Sensory play.
  • Flavoured play dough.
  • Make loose part people in sand.
  • Happyland village.
  • Yoga.
  • Thread cotton reels.

W/c 10th March 2025 – Tiger Who Came to Tea

  • Talk about who you would like to invite for tea.
  • Home area – prepping a meal.
  • Set up a tea party – think about why we have parties.
  • Plant cress.
  • Orange & black shaving foam.
  • Write in loose tea leaves.
  • Germ experiment.
  • Shape monster.
  • Transfer sugar cubes to tea cup.
  • 1 minute movement challenge.
  • Make tiger tail with bead pattern.
  • Orange playdough.
  • Animal songs in the water tray.
  • Make cakes in mud kitchen.
  • Tea party in the sand.
  • Environmental sounds game.

W/c 3rd March 25 – Senses / Pancake Day

  • Talk about tastes & smells we don’t like.
  • Use our senses.
  • Feely box.
  • Outdoor senses hunt.
  • I Spy initial sounds.
  • Make string cups for listening.
  • Copy egg shaker sounds.
  • Scented playdough.
  • Scented bags in sensory room.
  • Make pancakes – taste fillings options.
  • Smell fruits on snack table & guess identity.
  • How does it feel tuff tray.
  • Use natural objects to make faces in sand.
  • Walk barefoot on different textures.
  • Copy actions in movement games.
  • Use touch and feel books.

W/c 25th February 2025 – Dinosaurs

  • Look at fiction and non fiction books.
  • Learn names and facts about dinosaurs.
  • Make repeated patterns with dinosaurs.
  • Make fossil using clay.
  • Potato print dinosaur footprints.
  • Dinosaur hopscotch.
  • Put correct amount of eggs in nests.
  • Rescue dinosaurs from swap with tweezers.
  • Create dinosaur land tuff spot.
  • Remember and recreate volcano experiment.
  • Learn vocabulary: extinct, herbivore, carnivore, archaeologist, jurassic.
  • Put pegs on dinosaurs for spikes.
  • Go on a dinosaur hunt.
  • Make dinosaur shaped sandwiches.
  • Make marks in the mud.
  • Sort dinosaurs by properties.

W/c 10th February 2025 – Birds

  • Read themed books – Eggs are quiet.
  • Learn new vocabulary.
  • Pretend to be birds – freeze game.
  • Make love bird card.
  • Copy the patterns.
  • Make marks with feathers.
  • Learn new facts about birds.
  • Make bird feeder outside.
  • Number rhymes.
  • Measuring worms.
  • Play hide the owl game.
  • Magnetic shape birds.
  • Heart biscuit.
  • Use tweezers to put eggs in nests.
  • Match the beginning sounds – eggs.