WHAT ARE WE DOING THIS WEEK? 23.05.11
THEME – PRINCE’S + PRINCESSE’S – THIS WEEK FOCUSING ON
George and the dragon.
AREAS OF LEARNING
Personal, social + emotional – self confidence + self-esteem
Communication, language + literacy – language for thinking
Problem solving, reasoning + numeracy – numbers as labels and for counting
Knowledge and understanding of the world – time
Physical development – movement and space
Creative development – exploring media and materials
PLEASE HELP – the list is in the lobby for parents able to help us with the shopping or washing for this half term.
We would appreciate newspaper and kitchen roll tubes for this weeks activities, thank you.
ADULT LED + FOCUSED ACTIVITIES:
- Making salt dough dragon caves – looking at shape, texture, colour/shade, painting black and grey
- Creating a paper mache dragon – looking at shape, change, body parts and features, colour.
- Elastic band boards and tap tap.
- Super duper sorting dinosaurs with number cards – look at colours, numbers, simple calculating, lining dinosaurs behind, side by side, in a circle etc
- Pre-drawn dinosaur missing features e.g. legs, tail, eyes, teeth etc for children to add and decorate dinosaurs.
- Going on a dragon hunt – using actions from the bear hunt story – acting out as a group and ending at the dragon cave.
FREE PLAY ACTIVITIES:
Home corner – Dragon cave – dark den decorated with leaves
made by the children.
Physical play –balancing beams + cones making a track for larger
toy vehicles – look at up/down, in/out, round and
round.
Various – quiet book corner with shape games and puzzles,
Sand and letter shapes, large construction blocks
with cars, animals, dinosaurs, and wooden brio,
programmable toys, prints and patterns in paint
using vehicles, dinosaurs and marbles, choice
trolley.
OUTDOOR PLAY:
Free access to large choice bag containing creative, imaginary and physical resources and equipment
Using material to create a second dragon cave and extend indoor play outdoors
Cars and ride on toys, small climbing frame.
Sand in tray
Large and small tyres.
Books, cushions and mark-making in sheltered area
Sharing suggestions– castle, knight and dragon toys and clothes, stories with dragon’s, items related to St George and St george’s flag.
Please remember that anything that interests your child and that they will enjoy sharing with the other children will be suitable.
