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Week commencing the 26th of June, more arts activities 

Weeks commencing the 19th of June until the 14th of July children’s art weeks.
Also a reminder, I’m on holiday on the 3rd & 4th of July

Week commencing the 19th of June week 4 Menu
Week commencing
26th of June week 1 Menu.
Week commencing
the 3rd of July week 2 Menu
We commencing
the 10th of July week 3 Menu

Mark making and art and craft experiences are fundamental to early years development.
There are so many different forms of artistic expression through mark making. Forms such as finger-painting, making marks in shaving foam, experimenting with media textures such as pencils, crayons, chalks are just as expressive if a little tamer. Some children thrive on messy play and seek out different textural experiences, whereas others may find some sensory stimulation too overwhelming. Giving children some freedom to explore different materials not only allows for the development of self expression and communication but it enables them to explore what works for them as individuals. Allowing children to experiment with and immerse themselves in any kind of creative expression supports their development of imagination, their ability to express their own ideas and emotions and can aid the development of social skills. It also gives them a vehicle for making sense of the world around them and the freedom to experiment and try things out. This also leads to the development of gross and fine motor control, starting with larger motions which gradually become more refined. This then becomes a precursor to writing.

“The development of children’s artistic and cultural awareness supports their imagination and creativity. It is important that children have regular opportunities to engage with the arts, enabling them to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials. The quality and variety of what children see, hear and participate in is crucial for developing their understanding, self-expression, vocabulary and ability to communicate through the arts. The frequency, repetition and depth of their experiences are fundamental to their progress in interpreting and appreciating what they hear, respond to and observe

* Making marks with fingers, sticks or other items in sand or foam in a tuff spot
* Finger-painting
* Chalk on a chalkboard or outdoor area pavement, etc.
* Using natural materials such as leaves, cones or shells for printing or collage work
* Printing with food items such as carrots or pasta
* Water painting on outdoor area surfaces
* Making impressions e.g. with wheels or small world dinosaurs in malleable materials such as playdough, damp sand

children’s choice of Nursery rhymes in the next few weeks.

Children’s choice of story books please encourage your child to also bring their Favourite book in to read at story time.

Thank you all for birthday wishes gifts & cards

HAPPY FATHERS DAY

Healthy, eating and Father’s Day activities 

Vegetable Finger Family (NEW) + Nursery Rhymes For Children By HooplaKidz

Week commencing the 12th of June week 3 Menu

knowledge and understanding of the world:

Healthy eating week
Eat your veg day.
Children will also be making some special items for Father’s Day.

Fine and gross motor skills:

Children will be chopping vegetables and eating at snack time with some hummus dip.

Arts and crafts and fine motor skills:
Decorating cards and gifts for Father’s Day.
Printing with fruits and vegetables.

Communication, language and literacy:

Added stories this week.

The hungry caterpillar

Olivers fruit salad.

Super dad.

Singing dad.

I love my dad.

Added nursery rhymes this week:

I love daddy

Little Jack Horner.

Vegetable finger song in the same rhyme as Tommy Thumb.

Vegetable Finger Family (NEW) + Nursery Rhymes For Children By HooplaKidz Don't you love vegetables? Go along on a fun walk in the park with Annie and Ben, sing along to the finger family song and find some yummy and healthy vegeta...

Week commencing the 5th of June.

Menu week 2.

Child safety week.

This includes safe and unsafe situations.

Knowledge and understanding of the world.
Fire safety, children learn how to be safe with fire and how it can burn them, also with chemicals and electricity.

Safe in the Sun:
children will learn how to apply suncream to baby dolls, and how important it is to wear suncream and a hat.

Road safety:

For children to understand what stop, look and listen means.

Holding hands, traffic, road observation, cars, pedestrian zebra crossing, traffic lights, learning that the green man means it is safe to cross the road and red means stop.

Activities to understand, safety.

Small world fire engine activities.

Doctor and Nurse puppets, to explain bandages and burns on dolls and teddies.

Communication, language and literacy

Added nursery rhymes

London’s Burning.
Jack and Jill went up the hill.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall.

Added stories:

Week commencing the 29th of June week 1 Menu
Monday 29th of May is a Bank Holiday

World Ocean week

So this week the children will be learning about underwater wildlife.

Fine motor skills:
arts and craft activities.

Gross motor skills and physical development: The children will pretend to walk like crabs Penguins and pretend to swim like sharks.

Mathematics:
Counting Fish and putting them into groups also pairing them.

Communication and language.
Learning Sea animals names and body parts.

Added nursery rhymes this week:

12345 once I caught a fish alive.

Five Little ducks.

Baby shark.

Added stories this week.

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Before children can write, they need this!! Give them opportunities to build up that hand strength!

https://teaching2and3yearolds.com/17-of-the-best-preschool-fine-motor-activities-that-involve-squeezing/

For children, absolutely everything is new and unconnected to everything else 🤩 That's why kids love to see things again and again and again ☺️

Hi everyone, just to let you know if any parents have brought this Nivea suncream they have changed the formula and it contains almond oil which has not been labelled on the front of package. (However, if you now peel off the sticky label you can then check the ingredients more clearly about that product In case any children have reaction or allegic to almonds. Thank you to parent for informing us about this. Its important that with any products that parents buy don't just check the outer writing on the package. If you see any other sticky labels read them to.

Week commencing the 22nd of May Week 4 Menu

biological diversity week.
This is a very large subject, but we will be learning about plants seeds and flowers.

Knowledge and understanding of the world .
How plants need sun, water and food to grow 🌻

Gross motor skills
Planting flowers In pots

Arts and craft activities And fine motor skills.
Marking flowers in Play-Doh
Flower, stickers.
Older children, cutting out flower shapes

Mathematics:
Learning different colours & shapes of flowers and counting petals


Communication, language and literacy
nursery rhymes

Mary Mary, quite contrary how does your garden grow

The Sun has got his Hat on

Here we go round the Mulberry Bush

Week commencing the 15th of may Week 3 Menu

17th Numeracy Day
20th World Bee Day

The children will be learning about minibeasts this week.

Mathematics:
Counting insects, legs and spots on ladybirds also grouping insects together.

Language skills:
Names of insects. body parts legs wings body shell antennae

Gross motor skills:
crawl,slither, fly,

insects in an activity tray:

Fine motor skills:
making/colouring/drawing
different types of insects using arts and craft materials.

Communication, language and literacy:
Added nursery rhymes this week:

Incy Wincy Spider
Little Miss Muffet
The ants go Marching

Added stories this week:

What the Ladybird Heard next.

Mad about minibeasts.

The hungry caterpillar.

Week commencing the 8th of May
Monday is bank holiday.
Tuesday I have as a holiday
Back to work Wednesday the 10th of May week 2 Menu

Dinosaur week 🦕

knowledge and understanding of the world
Small world dinosaur activities.

Fine motor skills, arts and craft Activities: stickers & colouring
Dinosaur footprints in Play-dough

Mathematics:
Counting and taking turn games

Gross motor skills,
pretending to stomp like a dinosaur 🦕

Communication language and literacy:

Sung to: "The Ants go Marching"
The dinosaurs go marching one by one, hurrah, hooray
The dinosaurs go marching one by one, hurrah, hooray
The dinosaurs go marching one by one,
the little one stopped to stand in the sun,
And they all go marching round and round and up and down.
More verses:
Two-to admire the view. Three-eat from a tree. Four-to give a roar

The dinosaur stomp🦕

Week commencing the 1st of May:
Menu Week1
Restart back on the 2nd of May as the 1st of May is a Bank Holiday.

Celebrating the kings Coronation.

Knowledge and understanding of the world, fine motor skills, and arts and crafts.

Making and decorating Crowns.
Art activities with red white and blue.

Gross motor skills:
and physical development:

Role-play afternoon tea in the garden with cakes,
Pouring water from a teapot to a cup.
Dress up as a King.
Marching like the Kings Guards.

Sensory activity tray for little ones.

Communication, language and literacy:

Nursery Rhymes.

Humpty Dumpty

We Three Kings

Old King Cole

Pussycat pussycat

I’m the king of the castle

Easter activities 🐣🐰

Congratulations, another potty trained graduate 🎓

Surprise visit from the Easter Bunny after the Easter egg hunt 🐰🐣

Week commencing the 20th of March. Week 3 Menu

Communication and language Skills:

21st of March world poetry day.
The children will be trying to learn easy rhyming. Like one two buckle my Shoe.
Also rhyming words eg
The cat sat on the mat.

Expressive arts and design:

International Colour day:
Learning, recognising and mixing colours. different textures of material and ribbons, changing colour, sensory lights

22nd of March is world water Day.
Children will be involved in lots of water activities including aqua drawing painting, tipping and measuring water(mathematics)

added rhyming nursery rhymes:
Humpty Dumpty,
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
Itsy-bitsy spider,
Baa baa Black sheep,
One two buckle my Shoe,

Added stories

First day of spring equinox 

Happy Mother’s Day ❤️❤️❤️

Week commencing the 13th of March Week 2 Menu

Continuing with spring themed activities 🌺🌻🌸🌺🌻🌸

Celebrating and learning about
Saint Patrick’s Day 🍀🍀🍀

Communication and language
arts and crafts. making a leprechaun’s hat, making a rainbow using your fingers

Mathematics, counting coins

Red Nose Day:

Making a face on a paper plate, using a red pom-pom for nose


Mothering Sunday.

Spring activities using artificial Flowers also making cards

Added nursery rhyme this week:

As it’s not a very popular nursery rhyme I’ve added the words for you to sing along at home as well.

Mummy takes good care of me,
Care of me, care of me,
Mummy takes good care of me,
Because she loves me so.
She takes me to the park to play.
She says she loves me everyday,
she chases all the clouds away
off they go!
Mummy takes good care of me,
Care of me, care of me.
Mummy takes good care of me,
Because she loves me so.
She takes me to the park to play,
She says she loves me everyday.
She chases all the clouds away
off they go!
Mummy takes good care of me,
Care of me, care of me,
Mummy takes good care of me,
Because she loves me so.
Mummy takes good care of me,
Because she loves me so.

I can sing a rainbow 🌈

Added stories

Week commencing the 6th of March Week 1 Menu

British science week also begins this week:

Fine and Gross motor skills:

Children will be learning different experiments like how a liquid turns into a solid (cake making)
How a solid turns into a liquid
(Ice)

Understanding the world:

We will also introduce science weather activities this week, rainclouds, rainbows,wind, rain and ice

Communication and language:

Spring also starts this month so we will be introducing flowers/plants
Learning the names of different types of flowers and parts of the flower, like a leaf stem seeds and bulbs

Added nursery rhymes:

Rain rain go away,
Dr Foster went to Gloucester,
Ring a ring a roses,
The Sun has got his Hat on,

Added stories:

Week commencing the 27th of February
Week 4 Menu

Thursday, the 2nd of March, world book Day:
On this day children can bring their favourite book or dress up as their favourite character.Understanding the world:
Wednesday, the 1st of March, Saint Davids Day

Fine motor skills:
Daffodil arts and craft activities
To celebrate Saint Davids Day.
Trace, draw and print daffodils

Mythical creatures:
Small world characters, fairies, and dragons. for little hands to explore.

Added nursery songs & rhymes

Puff the magic dragon

Daffodil Rhyme:
One little daffodil had nothing much to do, then out popped another, and then there were two. Two little daffodils were smiling at a bee, Out popped another one, then there were three.

Added stories this week

Week commencing the 20th of February.

Week 3 Menu

Tuesday, the 21st of February is Shrove Tuesday pancake day:

The children will be decorating pancakes with fruit and honey
And eating them for their snack.

Arts and craft activities:

fine motor skills sticking different types of fruit onto pancake images.

Gross motor skills:

Cutting fruit
Making Play-Doh pancakes and tossing them in a frying pan

20th of February

Love your pet week.

The Children will be exploring and learning about different household pets.
Dogs, Cats, Rabbits, Reptiles and Goldfish.

Pets and Vet corner:
Stethoscope and veterinary equipment to examine soft toys.

Gross motor skills:
Pretending to be your favourite pet.

Fine motor skills:
Using a brush to brush some soft toy animals.
Colouring some animal pictures.

Please bring your child’s favourite cuddly pet toy in for a checkup at the Veterinary Surgery and Grooming Parlour.

Nursery rhymes: added for this week:

Sleeping Bunnies,
Pussycat Pussycat,
Old Mother Hubbard,

Stories this week:

The Scrap Rocket,
Winston Was Worried,
The King Cat,

Our latest potty trained graduate 👨🏼‍🎓 well done. You’re such a superstar. 🤩

Week commencing the 13th of February

Menu week 2.

Random acts of kindness week.

Understanding the world.
Children will learn to share
play sharing games.
Tidy toys away.
Older children will help younger children if they are stuck with something.
Be polite say please and thank you.

Communication and language:

Talk about different things you do at home that helps Mummy and Daddy.

Gross motor skills:

Give big hugs when you saying sorry to somebody
Or even if somebody is sad or upset.
Facial expressions,
(Adult lead for babies and younger children)

Fine motor skills:

Make pretend cakes with Play-Doh and sell them to each other using play money.
For younger children, squeezing and rolling Play-Doh and starting to use tools.

Added nursery rhymes:

Humpty Dumpty
Jack and Jill
The Sun has got his Hat on

Added stories

Week commencing the 6th of February week 1 Menu

February 9th is National toothache Day.
Children will be learning about going for a visit to the Dentist, and also expand on their oral hygiene learning.
We will also be covering healthy eating.

Fine motor skills:
The action of brushing teeth and removing yellow crayon from a laminated teeth smile mat.
Counting teeth, and taking some teeth away to see how many teeth you are left with. (mathematics)

Story time will be:
Little red Ridinghood (what big teeth you have)
The tooth fairy,
I lost a tooth, Dinosaur book.

We will also be covering activities for Valentine’s Day, as it’s the beginning of the following week.

Activities include,
Heart crowns,
Making Cards with heart stickers (Great for fine motor skill activity)
Forming and making relationships.

Added nursery rhymes this week

The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer's day. The knave of Hearts, he stole the tarts, And took them clean away.

Week commencing the 30th of January week 4 Menu

national storytelling week

Role-play
understanding the world,
gross motor skills
Goldilocks and the three Bears
Activities

Arts and crafts.
fine motor skills.
Making a bear mask
Mixing porridge, turning loose
porridge into a solid.

for older children, recognising the print and learning to recognise letters form words,reading from left to right.

Dress up day on Wednesday please come dressed as your favourite story book character.
Example, a T-shirt sweatshirt full fancy dress, or just bring a character toy

If the children have any storybooks special to them at home they would like to bring in please feel free to bring them along so we can read them at story time.

traditional stories this week:

Little red Ridinghood
Three. Little pigs
Goldilocks and the three Bears
Jack and the Beanstalk

Week commencing the 23rd of January week 3 Menu

Activities including Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is sometimes known as The holiday Lunar New Year, because the dates of celebration follow the phases of the moon. ... Celebrations to usher out the old year and bring forth good luck and prosperity of the new one.
Celebrations often include firecrackers, fireworks, red clothes and decorations.

2023 is the year of the rabbit

Gross motor skills:
pretending to be a dragon or
Rabbit Also dress up

Fine motor skills:
Children will use chopsticks transferring noodles from plate to plate, also cutting the noodles with scissors.

Arts and crafts:
Using Chinese stickers making a Chinese hat
And fan

Sensory tray with red and gold objects.

If the children have any books at home relating to rabbits and dragons or anything to do with Chinese New Year please feel free to bring them along.

Added nursery rhymes

Peter Rabbit’s got a fly upon his nose
Puff, the Magic Dragon

Added stories

We commencing the 16th of January Menu week 2

The children will be learning about wild birds, and different types of birds
On the 20th it’s penguin awareness Day.

Fine motor skills and arts and crafts:

Making a bird feeder. Painting and colouring pictures, using birds to push into Play-Doh, and see the different markings they make.

Sensory tray:
Feeling different feathers and birds.

Understanding the world:

Learning different body
parts of birds,
like wings, beaks and webbed feet. Looking at different habitats in where birds live.

Added nursery rhymes:

Five Little ducks.

Old Macdonald had a farm.

Two Little dickie birds.

Added stories

Week commencing the 9th of January week 1 Menu

The children are going to explore transport this week including emergency vehicles.

Gross motor skills
Flying with your arms out like an aeroplane.

Using small cars running them through paint and making different tracks marks.

Transport matching pairs game.

Ready steady go racing.

Making the sounds of different vehicles.

Transport nursery rhymes added to nursery rhyme list this week.

Wheels on the bus

Row Row Row the boat

If you have any books at home relating to transport or vehicles please feel free to bring them in.

Week commencing the 2nd of January returning back on the 3rd of January week 4 Menu

Winter activities including Making a bare tree frosty ☃️ with New Year calendar activities.

Talking about different animals that hibernate in the winter hedgehog, the hazel dormouse and our native bats.

Gross motor skills curling up small and pretending to be a hedgehog or a little mouse.

Fine motor skills using some scissors depending on age and stage to cut out a round snowball.
Also New Year calendar activities

Storytime includes
the winter Fox.
one snowy night.

Happy Xmas & new year 🎅🏻☃️🎄

Wonderful Christmas activities. The children all loved ❤️ So lucky to even have a sprinkling of snow,  which made it extra festive🎅🏻☃️🎄

Christmas activities so far 🎅🏻⛄️🎄