THEME – LOOKING AFTER OUR WORLD
AREAS OF LEARNING
Personal, social + emotional – behaviour + self-control
Communication, language + literacy – language for thinking
Problem solving, reasoning + numeracy – calculating
Knowledge and understanding of the world – communities
Physical development – health + bodily awareness
Creative development – creating music + dance
PLEASE HELP –
We will be recycling/swapping toys, if your child donates an unwanted toy/game they will be able to select another from our recycling area, thank you for your support as we discuss the importance of minimising rubbish.
We would like to increase our selection of natural and sensory materials please, shells, bark, pebbles, sandpaper, soft and squashy materials and objects.
ADULT LED + FOCUSED ACTIVITIES:
- Growing our own bean plants
- Creating our own 10 green bottles and poster using recyclable materials
- Creating 3D modelled robots
- Building and playing with marble run
FREE PLAY ACTIVITIES:
Home corner –garden centre, selling gardening equipment, plants
and flowers, pricing them, till, money and receipts
Physical play – small rainbow parachute with stars for balancing,
catching etc.
Various – painting flowers, textured collage, cars + garage,
Exploring new play foam, building area with tools,
stepladder and bricks, using scissors.
OUTDOOR PLAY:
- Free access to large choice bag containing creative, imaginary and physical resources and equipment
- Musical instruments.
- Soil in tuft spot with farm tractors
- Paintbrushes and water.
- Cars and ride on toys, small climbing frame.
Sharing suggestions- anything to do with gardening and gardening equipment, photographs of playing in the garden, home grown plants etc. Please remember that anything that interests your child and that they will enjoy sharing with the other children will be suitable.
