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W/c 11th July – Going to School

  • Share experiences of school visits, talk about teachers, uniform, classroom etc
  • School themed role play area
  • Make pictures of nursery uniform
  • Make self portraits for diplay
  • Design a heart: what we love at nursery
  • Take part in activities that involve turn taking and sharing resources
  • School small world set up
  • Read books about School, e.g “Colour Monster”
  • Make faces in the sand using pebbles/shells
  • Make going to school book
  • Hopscotch in the playground
  • Play team sports: football/basketball
  • Sink and float household objects
  • Sew letters of our names
  • Move using whole bodies, e.g Traffic Light game
  • Hide objects in the sand to count
  • Make marks with chalk on playground

W/c 20th June – Pirates

  • Make up a pirate name using alliteration
  • Share new stories about pirates e.g The Pirates Next Door
  • Make maps
  • Build a balance beam for pirates
  • Build pirate ships using duplo/lego
  • Small world pirate island
  • Private treasures posting challenge
  • Thread beads to make necklaces
  • Revisit floating & sinking
  • Find the magnetic objects in the bottle
  • Put the elastic bands on hooks
  • Learn pirate songs
  • Make pirate flags
  • Pirate cafe role play – make food to serve
  • Dig for objects
  • Practice for Sports Day
  • Begin Graduation practice
  • Collect treasure with tweezers
  • Explore bubble dough, glittery dough, moon sand

W/c 6th June – The Farm

  • Share our experiences of the farm
  • Read themed stories about animals
  • Sing animal themed songs e.g “Old Macdonald”
  • Match animals with their babies
  • Revisit our knowledge of what comes from an egg
  • Animal sound lotto
  • 3 little pigs home area
  • Make farm pictures using tap a shapes
  • Learn about the produce we get from farm animals
  • Make homes for animals using blocks/sticks/shapes
  • Use farm animals to make sequences
  • Make hoof prints in soil using potato prints
  • Follow positional language to find animals in the garden
  • Make farm animals for display

W/c 23rd May – Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

  • Set up a party with banners, balloons etc
  • Create a London Bus role play
  • Make tickets for the bus and take on roles
  • Read themed stories e.g Queen’s Knickers and non fiction about London
  • Talk about the Queen, her family and life
  • Make a Jubilee recipe including weighing/measuring
  • Look at coins and sort
  • Look at patterns and symmetry in crowns/flags
  • Mould playdoh into cakes
  • Make crowns and party hats
  • Finger print flags
  • Make party invitations
  • Make pictures of people important to us
  • Taste different foods, smell different objects
  • Make cakes in the sand and mud kitchen
  • Use chalks to write recipes outdoors

Week commencing 16th May – Superworm

  • Read Superworm, Snail & the Whale, Twist and Hop
  • Dip spaghetti into paint and use to make worms
  • Superhero tuff spot
  • Notice differences between bugs
  • Make worms move using magnets
  • Make playdoh worms using hands
  • Sort the worms by size
  • Talk about being kind and gentle to mini beasts
  • Make masks for superheroes
  • Fill the pollen tray with nectar (pipette & water)
  • Make worms using cheerios and pipe cleaners
  • Move like different bugs, e.g buzz like a bee
  • Dancing worms using bicarb and vinegar
  • Silly soup with rhyming words
  • Make a wormery

Week commencing 9th May – What else comes from an egg?

  • Learn what comes from an egg
  • Watch the different animal life cycles
  • Matching egg game: beginning sounds
  • Show children how to use the café
  • Move things using the drain pipes
  • Check the caterpillars growth
  • Put the correct amount of frogs on lily pads
  • Sink or float – filled eggs with objects
  • Make a pond adding blue resources
  • Look at a chicken egg and put in vinegar
  • Use spray bottles with food colouring
  • Find the worms in the egg tray using tweezers
  • Use scarves to move like butterflies
  • Make marks with feathers
  • Make marks for café orders

Week commencing 25th April – Hungry Caterpillar/Mini Beasts

  • Retell the Hungry Caterpillar story with props
  • Introduce non-fiction books of the butterfly life cycle
  • Garden Centre role play with cafe
  • Look at symmetry – begin by making marks and folding paper
  • Make a garden in the tuff spot
  • Find and match rhyming objects in the sand
  • Put the right amount of spots on the ladybirds
  • Make caterpillars by printing with shapes
  • Make signs for the garden centre
  • Make a wormery
  • Continue to care for our seeds
  • Watch a video of metamorphosis
  • Move in different ways like bugs
  • Make letters from natural objects: leaves/twigs/grass
  • Record the fruits we like – which is our favourite
  • Threading caterpillars
  • Bug hunting outside