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W/c 7th October – People who help the community

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

W/c 16th September 2024 – All About Me

  • Look at baby photos and compare to what we look like now
  • What makes me special?
  • Baby clinic role play area
  • Washing babies outside
  • Make self portraits – colour for a purpose
  • Write names and other words
  • Share experiences of baby siblings
  • Learn about our senses
  • Use stacking cups with pictures of family members to order by size
  • Build homes using shapes
  • Sing songs including body parts
  • Draw around each other on playground
  • Read stories: Mixed, All About Me
  • Trace over names

W/c 1st July – Olympics – Sports Day

  • Read stories – The Frog Olympics, My first sports day
  • Healthy café – outdoor role play
  • Design a flag
  • Musical rings game
  • Find Paris on European Map
  • Volleyball in sandpit
  • Olympic rings threading
  • Best sandcastle competition
  • Talk about how to have a healthy diet
  • Bring in certificates/medals to show from home
  • Garden games: sack race, hoops and cones, track race
  • Mini ice hockey – spoons & bottle lid

W/c 24th June – Holidays

  • Share experiences of holidays
  • Parachute beach ball game
  • Read stories: Spot goes on holiday, Rosie’s Hat, What the ladybird heard on holiday
  • Ice cream tuff tray with sand dough
  • Airplane role play
  • Make fruit smoothie ice lollies
  • Write postcards
  • Duplo planes
  • Sandcastles – design and build
  • Magnetic fishing game
  • Make vehicles out of shapes
  • Find characters in jelly using tongs
  • Volleyball in sandpit
  • Junk modelling – vehicles
  • World map floor puzzles

W/c 17th June – Football-Euros-Keeping Healthy

  • Think about what promotes “good health”
  • Read “Goal” and “Noah’s Football Magic”
  • Learn new vocabulary: referee, penalty, half-time
  • Football tuff tray
  • Design a football t-shirt or football using patterns
  • Play games and keep scores with mark making tools
  • Use shape stencils to add pentagons and hexagons on footballs
  • Look at different flags for Euro teams
  • Move the balls with spray bottles
  • Use tweezers to sort ball shape beads by colour
  • Introduce tally system to record goals
  • Talk about our personal football knowledge and experience
  • Roll balls in paint to make patterns
  • Balance the balls onto tees
  • Roll the ball to our chosen friend during group time
  • Which balls float or sink?