W/c 15th May – Volcanoes

15 May 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read “Volcano” story
• Learn facts about volcanoes
• share knowledge of fire, fire safety and if this is the same with a volcano
• Fizzy paint pictures
• Fill the volcanoes with rice “lava”
• Build volcanoes in the sand
• Dinosaur land small world play
• Create volcanoes using shapes
• Floor is lava game with shapes on the playground
• Blow painting on volcanoes
• Make marks in the mud with dinosaurs
• Cut and sequence volcanoes
• Make rainclouds in jars

W/c 9th May – Superworm

10 May 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read themed stories – Superworm, Snail & the Whale, Twist & Hop
• Talk about being kind & gentle to minibeasts
• Move worms using magnets
• Thread beads to make worms
• Play beetle game with friends
• Rescue worms from jelly with tweezers
• Sort worms by size
• Fill pollen tray with “nectar” using pipettes
• Move like different mini beasts
• Dancing worms experiment
• Find metal things in soil using detectors
• Learn new facts about mini beasts
• Play stuck in the mud
• Draw & measure worms
• Use wool & paint to make trails

W/c 2nd May – Hungry caterpillar & mini beats

3 May 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read themed stories e.g Hungry caterpillar & the crunching munching caterpillar
• Follow clues to guess the bug in the sack
• Thread cereal to make caterpillars
• Garden themed tuff spot
• Favourite fruit bar chart
• Learn caterpillar life cycle
• Make signs for garden centre role play
• Continue to watch our seeds & support growth
• Make paint print caterpillars
• Look at butterfly symmetry
• Move spiders along gutter
• Insect themed songs
• Retell story on stage using instruments
• CORONATION PARTY! – Red, white & blue clothes. Normal am session, no lunch or pm sessions. Parents to arrive from 11:45am after which point all children must be accompanied. Picnic food – let Lou know what you can bring!

W/c 24th April – Growing continued

24 Apr 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Oliver’s Fruit, Oliver’s Vegetables
• Show care & concern for mini beasts
• Café role play area with sandwich bar
• Record the fruits we like in a bar chart
• Look at life cycle books
• Garden centre role play – outdoors
• Add flowers to pot using dice
• Mini beasts tuff spot with magnifying glass
• Thread leaves on pipe cleaners
• Move water along marble run
• Growing beans experiment – grow in different conditions
• Make wormery
• Fill & empty plants pots with soil
• Look inside fruit & vegetables at the seeds & plant some

W/c 17th April – Spring/Things that grow

21 Apr 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Share news from our Easter holidays
• Read The Tiny Seed – change the story using props
• Make flowers using letters of our name
• Garden centre role play – write orders, lists, bills outside
• Look at and paint flowers
• Use scarves or crepe paper to move like butterflies/flowers/trees
• Draw large flowers on the playground
• Number rhymes – order the flowers in the correct order
• How many flowers can we find in the garden – make a ten frame with sticks
• Build a stem using milk bottle tops for the flowers to match the numerals
• Garden sensory bin
• Thread flowers into a pot/sieve
• Make a garden in the tuff spot
• Fill plant pots with compost using spoons
• Make a pond in the water tray, add fish, weeds, flowers etc
• Look at the inside of fruit and vegetables and how they differ – do they have seeds?
• Plant a seed

W/c 27th March – Easter

27 Mar 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Talk about Easter
• Make up stories with Easter props
• Introduce language about Easter
• Make a basket using a plate
• Chocolate nests – notice the changes
• Find objects and match to shapes
• Fill the eggs with the right amount of beans
• Share Easter stories
• Join the dots to make Easter pictures – 1-20
• Put pom poms in the eggs using Tweezers
• Easter tuff trays
• Wash the ducks with sponges
• Write names in the sand with sticks
• There was an old lady who swallowed a chick – use props
• Run around obstacles

W/c 20th March – The Odd Egg

27 Mar 2023Uncategorized
Louise Gough

• Read the Odd Egg – what do you think is inside the duck’s egg?
• What hatches out of an egg
• Learn new vocabulary
• Humpty Dumpty song sack
• Egg hunt with numerals
• Thread a pasta snake
• Make turtles with fruit
• Copy the pattern on the eggs
• Happy street farm & town
• Egg & cocktail stick construction activity
• Find the eggs using the timer
• Shoot the eggs/ducks using water
• Sink or float activity
• Egg Experiments