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

4 Mar 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• 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

25 Feb 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• 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

11 Feb 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• 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.

W/c 3rd February 2025 – Owl Babies / Mental Health Week

3 Feb 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Read Owl Babies with props.
• Talk about how Sarah, Percy and Bill felt when they found their mother gone / had returned.
• Cafe role play.
• Print owl using different objects – think about shape and colour.
• Make loose part faces.
• Practice writing initial capital letter in chalk.
• Paint using feathers.
• Talk about a good sleep routine for us, and how owls are nocturnal / the opposite.
• Sort the objects and count.
• Learn new facts about owls.
• Tree and bean bag game.
• Sort feathers by colour.
• Make nest, using paper cutting strips.

W/c 27 January 2025 – Chinese New Year

3 Feb 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Learn new themed vocabulary.
• Chinese restaurant role play area.
• Make Chinese paper lanterns.
• Make paper plate drums.
• Paint Chinese blossom trees.
• Listen and dance to Chinese music.
• Join in with instruments.
• Dragon dancing.
• Make patterns in the sand.
• What is Chinese New Year? How do they celebrate?
• Retell animal story with puppets.
• Use chopsticks to move cotton balls.
• Put the right amount of eggs in nests.
• Imitate Chinese numerals in mud/sand.
• Tasting Chinese food.
• Match shapes in the sand.

W/C 20th January 2025 – Cinderella / Castles

22 Jan 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Make marks on invitations.
• Craft sword / shield / wand / crown.
• Read stories with puppets & props.
• Dig for jewels and count.
• Make castles from shapes.
• Threading to make jewellery.
• Obstacle course for knights.
• Tap a shape castles.
• Make themed recipes in mud kitchen.
• Attend a musical ball on stage.
• Create marks with feathers in sand.
• Mix potions in water tray.
• Explore magnetism with castle treasure.
• Knight’s battle tuff tray.
• Design and build sand castle.
• Treasure hunt for gold coins.

W/C 13th January 2025 -Winter / Frozen

13 Jan 2025Uncategorized
Nikki Wims

• Winter Walk – take in the environment for signs of Winter.
• Read themed stories – e.g. Stick Man, Pip and Posy, Polar bear and the Snow Cloud.
• Snow scenes painted on black paper.
• Cotton wool polar bear pictures.
• Make marks in glitter.
• Feed the penguins the correct amount of fish.
• Fishing game.
• Subsidising number hunt.
• Look at environmental impacts on the frozen parts of the world.
• Would you like Elsa’s powers?
• Is Elsa a good queen?
• Make paper snowflakes.
• Create Frozen stage shows – dressing up, musical instruments, singing, dancing.