W/c 13th May – The Ugly Duckling

13 May 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Learn duck rhymes
• Match word to picture egg
• Match the sound eggs
• Make pancakes
• Pond small world tray
• Make ink/paint marks with feathers
• Watch life cycle of ducks/swans
• Feed the duck the correct amount of worms
• Talk about what makes us special/unique
• Sort animals by colour size
• Make eggs in playdough
• Use fingers to peck out of bowl
• Use large letters in sand – then find phonetic matching to find items
• Explore floating & sinking
• Move like animals on the playground
• Egg hunt in sand pit
• Draw letters

W/c 29th April – Superworm

2 May 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Share stories: Superworm, Twist and Hop
• Talk about being kind and gentle to worms
• What bug is it? Play descriptive game
• Complete the pattern on the worms
• Sort the worms by size
• Draw and measure worms
• Make playdough worms and measure with cubes
• Play stick in the mud, the floor is mud
• Dig for worms in the soil
• Create recipes in the mud kitchen
• Move like different bugs
• Collect worms with peg birds
• Make worms from loose parts
• Learn nursery routine
• Practice self care (e.g taking off coats)

W/c 22nd April – Growing/Vegetables

22 Apr 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read Oliver’s Fruit Salad, Oliver’s Vegetables
• Introduce non fiction books about growing and life cycles
• Discuss fears of mini beasts and how to overcome these when finding them in the garden
• Vegetable printing (2-year-olds)
• Still life painting (Older children)
• Sort fruit and veg by colour. Record the ones we like
• Measure vegetables using cubes
• Small world farm
• Grow beans – talk about how to take care of them
• Mould fruit and vegetables in sand
• Make vegetables in play dough
• Vegetable themed obstacle course
• Cut fruit on snack table. Look at the seeds that come from each and plant some

W/c 15th April – The Very Hungry Caterpillar/Mini Beasts

22 Apr 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Play “What Bug is it?” game, respond to clues to guess bug
• Sort healthy & unhealthy foods
• Retell story on the stage using masks/props
• Create caterpillar using different media/methods
• Make garden themed tuff tray
• Make symmetrical butterflies
• Write letters in the sand
• Make a chart of our favourite fruits
• Create fruit caterpillars on the snack table
• Plant seeds outside
• Move spiders along gutter with water
• Learn about the butterfly life cycle
• Make repeated patterns using pony beads
• Order the story

W/c 11th March – Things that grow/Beans & Seeds

14 Mar 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read stories about growing: Tiny Seed, Sam’s Sunflower, Small small seed, Jasper’s Beanstalk
• Garden centre & cafe role play area
• Make flowers using names for petals
• Make collage flowers with different media
• Mark making in wet mud
• Draw flowers on playground
• Garden tuff spot
• Plant sunflower seeds
• Growing in different conditions, eg glass jar, compost
• Flower pattern puzzles
• Use spray bottles to water seeds
• Use tweezers to pick seeds from compost
• Add drain pipes & gutters to sand pit
• Find objects in sand, match initial sound
• Make playdough flowers
• Sequence flowers in numerical order
• Use scarves/ribbons to move like butterflies, flowers or trees

W/c 4th March – Jack & The Beanstalk

6 Mar 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Share the story
• Order the story in sequence
• Draw Beanstalks
• Thread leaves onto straws to make beanstalks
• Create castle from large junk modelling
• Make beanstalks from playdough
• Foam castle in the water tray
• Sensory story with music and sounds
• Build castles with different bricks
• Make marks in crayon then paint over
• Use tweezers to find beans in soil
• Beanstalk hopscotch
• Measure giant footprints with cubes
• Make flowers with shapes
• Play story CDs in small groups

W/c 5th February – Knights & dragons, Chinese New Year & Cinderella

7 Feb 2024Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Listen to stories about Chinese New Year
• Learn new facts and information about the celebration
• Chinese restaurant role play area
• Read stories with puppets (props e.g. Cinderella)
• Dig for jewels then count them
• Treasure hunt – find all the gold
• Make invitations and attend a ball
• Build the Great Wall of China
• Take part in knight obstacle course
• Vinegar & bicarb experiment
• Copy Chinese letters in glitter
• Make a dragon together outside
• Make recipes in the mud kitchen
• Move cotton ball using chopsticks
• Sort the shapes in the sand
• Make castle out of shapes
• Threading to make jewellery