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W/c 11th Sept – Nursery Rhymes

  • Learn new rhymes
  • Look at the nursery rhyme sacks
  • Talk about feelings – how did Humpty Dumpty feel?
  • Ask what is our favourite rhymes
  • use instruments to add rhythm to rhymes
  • Explore spiders and drainpipes
  • Songs in the water tray – explore floating and sinking
  • Draw happy/sad faces on Incy Wincy spider
  • Lightbox with stars
  • Plant bulbs like Mary Mary
  • Make spiders with 8 legs
  • Nursery rhyme jigsaw puzzles
  • Ring songs, e.g Hokey Cokey, Mulberry Bush
  • Make jam tarts in playdoh
  • Move buses along the road, people and vehicles

W/c 10th July – Rosie’s Hat – Seaside

  • Read seaside stories – Rosie’s hat, Spot goes on holiday, What the ladybird heard on holiday
  • Ice cream parlour role play
  • Make ocean music using instruments
  • Learn about pollution/littering
  • Parachute: Make waves for beachball
  • Write letters in coloured sand
  • Learn how wind can change appearance and position of things
  • Investigate weight using buckets and seaside items e.g pebbles
  • Make sea creatures from playdough
  • Cutting skills – create octopus tentacles
  • Play volleyball in sandpit
  • Experiment with sand to make castles
  • Magnetic fishing game
  • Make marks in coloured sand
  • Make messages for bottles
  • Use tongs to find items in jelly
  • Share stories/experiences of holidays

W/c 3rd July – Special Journeys

  • Share stories of journeys we’ve been on
  • Listen and sing along to Journey home from Grandpa’s
  • Consider descriptive words for journey, e.g “bumpy”
  • Make a map for a journey we remember
  • Transport role play e.g aeroplane, bus
  • Clap syllables for transport vehicles
  • Make waterways using gutters for Boats
  • Program Beebot
  • Move vehicles through flour to make tracks
  • Write tickets, passports, booking forms
  • Role play using money to buy tickets
  • Makes marks using pens on vehicles
  • Mini car wash using toothbrushes
  • Sing transport songs with instruments
  • Numbered vehicles and car park
  • Make road using duplo

W/c 26th June – A Squash and a Squeeze

  • Copy the patterns on the eggs
  • Make towers and knock over with bean bags
  • Squash and a Squeeze story with props
  • Hear and identify rhyming words
  • Make frittatas
  • Make patterns in sand tray
  • Match eggs to numeral
  • Watch egg life cycle and revisit knowledge
  • Play duck duck, goose, farmers in his den
  • Squeeze different items into a tent e.g balloons
  • Make pet food in mud kitchen

W/c 19th June – Rosie’s Walk

  • Look at the story Rosie’s Walk and ask questions
  • Introduce the Little Red Hen story
  • Hand print fox or hen prints
  • Follow the playground walk game
  • Den building
  • Make aspects of the story using playdoh
  • Number bonds – hens and nests
  • Take apples from the tree using tweezers
  • Make Rosie’s Walk in the sand pit
  • Use Bee Bot to programme a journey
  • Draw a map of the farm Rosie walks through
  • Sequence the story
  • Investigate eggs, raw and cooked
  • Learn Graduation songs
  • Sports Day practice

W/c 5th June – Pets

  • Talk about ways we can help care for pets
  • Share information about our pets
  • Sing animal songs
  • Make tally/bar chart about our pets
  • Make animals with shapes
  • Vets theme role play
  • Feed the cat using tweezers
  • Spell name with magnetic letters and write
  • Move like animals
  • Read animal stories
  • Make animal paintings
  • Animal hospital tuff spot

W/c 22nd May – Dinosaurs

  • Look at fiction and non fiction books on dinosaurs
  • Learn new vocabulary e.g archaeologist
  • Go on a dinosaur hunt
  • Sort the dinosaurs by colour and type
  • Dinosaur threading cards
  • Make a dinosaur from the shapes
  • Release the dinosaurs from frozen eggs
  • Measure dinosaurs and sort by size
  • Dinosaur tuff spot
  • Add playdough spikes to dinosaurs
  • Dotty dinosaurs shape game
  • Make dinosaurs with junk modelling
  • Find dinosaur eggs in the sand