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W/c 11th November – Artists & Fireworks

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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