• This week we will practice putting our shoes on ourselves and following the boundaries in nursery (PSE, PD)
• The children will learn about fireworks and Diwali – lighting our homes for the celebration and seeing fireworks (CL, UW)
• We will use out gross motor movement to swirl the ribbons to music (PD)
• The children will make marks in the foam, glitter, sand and mud to emulate fireworks (PD)
• We will listen to stories and continue to find rhyming words (L)
• We can use shapes to make fireworks 2D and 3D (M)
• The children will create firework pictures using the artist Jackson Pollock as inspiration (UW)
• We will make Diva lamps, moulding the clay and discovering the texture (EAD, UW)

Making Diva lamps from clay

Firework picture inspired by Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock – inspiration

Jackson Pollock – inspiration

Making a clay diva lamp

Making movements to the music and pretending to be fireworks. Moving their arms and ribbons, making them swirl, doing big circles and making big arm actions to the sounds.

• Read stories and think about others: ‘Pumpkin Soup’ talks about everyone having a turn. ‘Room on a Broom’, letting everyone join together. (PSE)
• Sharing stories, hearing rhyming words (CL, L)
• Move the ball with the broomstick, negotiating a path (PD)
• Number songs, decorate the pumpkin with shapes (M)
• Making potions, whisking bubbles using mud soup with natural resources (UtW)
• Use resources to create spiderweb pictures, shapes for ghosts/pumpkins (children to select different media) (EAD)
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  Story time

  

  Can you draw a shaddow?

  

  Making shaddows

  

  Potion making

  

  Potion making

  

Bear Hunt – Leaf Hunt – Family

• We will be interacting together, listening and follow leads to act out stories and listen to other opinions (PSE)
• Follow and notice the rhythm in the stories, join in with text (L, CL)
• Find different ways to move round the obstacle course (PD)
• Make marks in the mud, sand. Use different natural resources on pegs to make marks (PD, L)
• We’re going on a shape hunt – notice 2D and 3D shapes in the environment (M)
• Count the spoons of ingredients and things to decorate our bear biscuits (M)
• Operate CD player to listen to favourite stories (UW)
• Create resources to use with the hunt stories (EAD)

Making binoculars for the bear hunt

We’re going on a bear hunt

Have we found the bear?

We’re going on a bear hunt…

Shape hunt – I’ve found a rectangle

Shape hunt – I found a circular shape

Shape hunt – I found a leaf shape

• This week we are going on an Autumn walk, we will look at how boundaries change when we are out of nursery and how important road safety is (PSE, PD)
• We will read ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ and ‘Were going on a leaf hunt’ (CL, L)
• The children will be encouraged to develop gross motor skills, swirling ribbons like Autumn leaves and making spiky hedgehogs. Counting how many spikes they have added matching to the correct numeral (PD,M)
• The children will notice changes to the leaves and what is happening as it gets colder (UW)
• We will use the treasures we find at the park to create pictures (EAD)

What does the tree feel like?

What does this shop sell?

Spikes on a hedgehog

Making a hedgehog

Counting bears and recognising numbers

• This week we will talk about our families including grandparents (PSE).
• We will listen to the story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and join in with repeated refrains, talk about the characters (CL, L)
• Play ‘what’s the time Mr Wolf?”, moving in different ways and realising the movements can be counted (PD, M)
• We will start to make marks for our names and practice our fine motor skills feeding grandma food using tongs (PD)
• We will learn to use the CD player and use headphones to listen to our favourite stories (UW)
• The children will choose things they would like to make in the craft area, flowers/cards for Grandma (EAD

Feeding the wolf using tongs

Following the interests of a lot of the children, we are going to learn ‘The 3 Little pigs’.

• Continue to discuss what makes us unique – houses we live in, families etc (PSE)
• Read the story, join in repeated refrains, sequence it (C,L)
• What’s the time MR Wolf; negotiate space, build houses using our gross motor skills (PD, M)
• Use different shaped blocks to build (M)
• Learn to maneuverer remote control cards round a path (UW)
• Follow the paths using different fine motor tools (PD)
• Practice our colouring making skills to make pig pictures (EAD)

Colour: Some of the children’s work from the last two weeks

Working together

Building a brick house to stop the Big Bag Wolf from blowing it down

• This week we will read the Elmer story and talk about how everyone is different and look at our different features (PSE, CL)
• We will use puppets with the story (L)
• The children can play hopscotch throwing the beanbags and counting the numerals (PD, M)
• We will play a traffic light game following the correct movements to correspond with the colour lights (PD)
• The children can use the new microphones to record themselves singing (UW)
• We will mix colours using bags and paint to notice the changes (EAD)

Mixing paint to make different colours