W/c 13th March – Ugly Duckling

27 Mar 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read the story and talk about emotions
• Talk about what makes us unique
• Think about how we change as we grow
• Move like different animals outside
• Watch the life cycle of a duck and swan
• Learn new language about Spring: growth, blossom, new life
• Letters in the water tray
• Use the feathers to make marks
• Guess what’s in the egg by sound
• Make eggs in the dough
• 5 little ducks tuff spot
• Paint pictures about the story
• Play the bean game
• Thread leaves onto sticks/strings

W/c 6th March – Little Red Riding Hood

6 Mar 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read Little Red Riding Hood
• Talk about the characters – which are kind or unkind?
• Look in the mirror and ask if we look like our grandparents – why/why not?
• Talk about how long you should brush your teeth
• Kim’s game – food themed
• Grandma’s Cottage role play area
• Make Mother’s Day crafts
• Paint pictures of fruit and vegetables
• Use small house to tell stories
• Use timers for activities that can be done in 2 minutes
• Thread cereal to make a necklace for mummy
• Make food for Grandma with playdoh
• Look at different foods and consider what is good for us
• Hidden letters in the sand
• Wolf chasing games outside

W/c 27th February – Three Little Pigs

27 Feb 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read the story – discuss the characters and being unique
• Consider what kind of house we’d choose to live in – e.g castle, rocket, ship
• Little pigs sensory story
• Retell the story with props
• Make food for the pigs in the mud kitchen
• Blowing paint with straws
• Build houses and blow them down
• Build with wet & dry sand – which is better?
• Learn some materials are waterproof
• Weave with sticks, straws, ribbon
• Listening games: what’s the time Mr Wolf
• Build houses using different construction materials
• Sequence the story

W/c 20th February – Billy Goats Gruff

22 Feb 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Share news from half term
• Read Three Billy Goats Gruff story
• Order the story in sequence
• Make a bridge to climb over outside
• Lounge home corner
• Make troll face pizzas
• Mix mud and water to draw trolls
• Hear “g” in words: Beginning, Middle, End
• Make trolls and goats in playdoh
• Build with sand: dry & wet
• Use instruments to retell the story
• Follow the map of the Billy Goats
• Use shaped blocks (2D) to make a bridge
• Rhyming activities

W/c 30th January – Dear Zoo/Animal Patterns

30 Jan 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Talk about “what is your favourite animal?”
• Guess the animal in the sack – follow the descriptive clues
• Rainforest café role play area
• Free painting of favourite animals
• Build habitats for animals – junk modelling
• Make patterns in sand, e.g Spots/Stripes
• Play animal lotto/snap
• Link elephants
• Move like animals
• Write letters to someone
• Walking through the jungle tuff spot
• Sea creatures in water tray
• Sort and count animals
• Make up stories using animals and objects
• Use tweezers to give Cheetah pom pom spots
• Threading pasta/cereal to make snakes

W/c 23rd January – Chinese New Year

23 Jan 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Chinese restaurant home corner
• Draw Chinese numbers in the sand
• Try some Chinese food at snack time
• Build a dragon for dragon dancing
• Create paper plate drum
• Listen to Chinese New Year story
• Learn about the Great Wall of China
• Put the right amount of gold coins in envelopes
• Measure noodles using cubes
• Build walls using blocks
• Collect bottle tops from water using chopsticks
• Retell story using animal puppets
• Consider similarities/differences between celebrating our New Year
• Chinese blossom painting

W/c 16th January – Zog & the Flying Doctors

18 Jan 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Learn the role of a doctor
• Read Zog and the Flying Doctors, Dragon Princess Mirror Belle & the Dragon Pox
• Make potions in the water and mud kitchen
• Build castles using different construction toys
• Put the right amount of gems on the crowns
• Doctor themed cutting sheets
• Doctor surgery role play area
• Knights and castle tuff tray
• Move the cotton wool balls with tweezers
• Use pipettes to move coloured water to ice cube trays
• Build castles in the sand
• Use potato printing to make shapes into castles
• Design & make a crown
• Experiment with sound and percussion to make castle noises
• Knight’s obstacle course
• Sing rhymes including Miss Polly had a Dolly, Heads, Shoulders, Knees & toes, 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed