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Jun 06

This Week – 06-06-2011

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WHAT ARE WE DOING THIS WEEK?

THEME  – GROWING + CHANGING – This week focusing on plants.


AREAS OF LEARNING
Personal, social + emotional – making relationships
Communication, language + literacy – language + communication
Problem solving, reasoning + numeracy –  shape, space + measures
Knowledge and understanding of the world – exploration + investigation
Physical development – movement + space
Creative development –  developing imagination + imaginative play

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 large toy animals and play pet bowls, beds  etc for this weeks home corner, thank you.

ADULT LED + FOCUSED ACTIVITIES:

  • Natural collage pictures
  • Display of the growth of a seed to a tree
  • Leaf printing
  • Measuring, weighing, drawing around and looking at properties of shaped objects
  • House and garden pictures
  • Linking sounds and letters – using magnetic letters
  • Circle games

FREE PLAY ACTIVITIES:

Home corner –. Farm house and shop – digging, separating plants, selling fruit and veg, kitchen area
Creative – sunflower paintings on easel, free access to art trolley
Construction  – new large construction blocks combined with cars, farm and animals.
Various  –        quiet book corner with shape games and puzzles,
Water with natural materials, brio train track, pirate
ship and sea-life, dolls house, coloured and sparkly
water, sound and aroma blocks, green gloop with
sticks for mark-making, laptop.

OUTDOOR PLAY:

Free access to large choice bag containing creative, imaginary and physical resources and equipment
Cars and ride on toys, small climbing frame.
Large and small tyres.
Books, cushions and mark-making  in sheltered area
Choice trolley.

Sharing suggestions–  home grown plants and/or fruit and veg for possible tasting, pictures, books, stories related to plants, farms and growing, tractors, gardening tools.
Please remember that anything that interests your child and that they will enjoy sharing with the other children will be suitable.

May 23

This Week – 23-05-2011

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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.

 

Mar 21

What we are doing this week March 21

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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.

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