Week commencing 26th November 2018:

• Bakery role play area (EAD, Uotw)
• Listen to different versions of the story, what are the similarities/differences? (L)
• Use props/puppets to retell the story  (L, EAD)
• Make a glance bridge for obstacles to jump over (PD)
• Make gingerbread using tap a shapes (PD)
• Make a gingerbread salt dough decoration (EAD, PD)
• Talk about road safety, is it safe to run everywhere like the Gingerbread Man? (PD)
• Write recipes (L, PD)
• Make marks in ginger salt (PD, L)
• Post letters to Father Christmas

Week commencing 19th November 2018:

• Talk about  why we use the post office (CL)
• Read the Jolly Postman/Dear Zoo (L)
• Write letters and use the postbox (L)
• Use push button cars (UtW)
• Make letters using pasta (EAD)
• Make marks with chalks, white boards, pads (L)
• Write letters in the sand tray (L)
• Transfer water between bowls using sponges (PD)
• Learn Christmas songs (EAD)
• Hopscotch (PD,M)

Don’t forget to sign up for Parents meeting this Thursday, if  you wish to see your child’s key person.

Week commencing 5th November 2018. This week we will:
– Sing firework songs with sounds (CL)
– Dark den – use torches in a dark classroom ((UTW)
– Make firework pictures by throwing tea bags (EAD)
– Talk about road safety – tuff spot (UTW)
– Fireworks number songs (M, EAD)
– Sort and count natural objects (M)
– Make rangoli patterns with chalk on the playground (UTW)
– Make divas out of clay (PD)
– Draw shapes in the sand using sticks (M)
– Make rockets out of cardboard tubes (EAD)
– Talk about our experience of fireworks (CL, UTW)

Week Commencing 29th October 2018, we will:

• Make spooky soup and write recipes in the home corner (L, EAD)
• Match spider legs with dots and numbers (M)
• Find the objects in the sand and put them in shape categories (M)
• Retell Room on the Broom with props (L,CL)
• Make potions (UTW, EAD)
• Guide balls around obstacle course with broomsticks (PD)
• Match Halloween rhyming words (L)
• Read Hansel and Gretel (L)
• Make ghost pictures in gloop/foam (PD/L)
• Make pictures using shapes (M)

Week commencing 15th October 2018:

– Act out the story of the Gruffalo (L)
– Make a forest scene for the display board (EAD)
– MESSY PLAY! Scrambled snake, Owl ice cream, Gruffalo crumble (PD)
– Roll the dice and add purple prickles (M)
– Build the characters houses (PD)
– Make soup in the water tray using natural objects (PD, EAD)
– Move like animals, Owl, Mouse, Snake, Fox and Gruffalo (PD)
– Write letters from our names in the sand (L)
– Gruffalo dominoes (PSED)
– Build a den (PD)
– Read the story using props (L)

Week commencing 8th October 2018:

• Know that leaves change colour (UTW)
• Learn new songs for Autumn (EAD)
• Make marks on the soil (L)
• Make Christmas cards (EAD)
• Build a den using tyres, blocks and material (EAD, PD)
• Make woodland creatures in the play dough (EAD, PD)
• Woodland tuff spot – What can you see? (UTW, CL)
• Thread numbered leaves on the string (PD, M)
• Roll Conkers through paint down the guttering (EAD)

Autumn walk – Tuesday AM and Thursday PM

Week commencing 24th September 2018:

• Make playdoh cakes, how many candles should we add? (M)
• Make fairy cakes measuring, mixing and following the recipe (CL, PD, M)
• Talk about the equipment used in the kitchen e.g. scales, utensils (UTW, CL)
• Emphasize initial sounds in words – phonetic, eh not ee (L, CL)
• Outside reading/book area, playhouse (CL, L, PSED)
• Build a car garage, match numbered cars to their spaces (M)
• Ribbon dancing to music (EAD, PD)
• Promote indépendance e.g putting on shoes (PD)
• Treasure hunt in the sand (M, CL)
• Listening walk, sounds of nature (CL, UTW)