This half term our topic is Wheels
Our weekly themes will include trains, buses, diggers and cars. We will look at books such as ‘Fix it duck’ and ‘The Little Red Train’ and our role play areas will be a bus, then a construction site and finally a Chinese restaurant. Outside, we will have a train and then a garage and car wash. For our creative work we will make ‘junk model’ vehicles and investigate tyre rubbings and prints as well as exploring wheeled toys, cogs and water wheels. We will also find out about Chinese New Year and the Buddhist symbol of the Dharma wheel.
At home, you could follow up our wheels work by:
If your child has any specific interests in this topic, please let us know and we will make the most of this. Also, do keep adding your own observations to Tapestry – it’s lovely to share their wider learning experiences of days out, new skills, favourite things etc.
Dates for this half term
Tuesday 5th January – New children start nursery
Wednesday 6th January – First day for children returning to nursery (usual hours)
Date to be confirmed – Phonics meeting on Zoom
8th-11th February – Parent Consultations on Zoom
12th February - Chinese New Year
If you are willing to make a £2.50 per child contribution towards cooking for the Spring term, there will be a pot for donations by the gate. Thanks!
Date | Theme |
Communication, Language and Literacy & key text |
Mathematical Development |
Physical, Understanding the World, Expressive Art and Design |
Cooking | Other |
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5.1.21 |
Trains |
Write name for train carriages The Train Ride |
Colour pattern train |
Design a railway track on the computer |
Cracker, banana train |
Train role play. Tyre rubbing. Transport threading. Cogs & wheels. Thomas train numbers. Golf tee colour patterns. |
11.1.21 |
Buses |
Use bus role play area. Make stop signs. The naughty bus |
Draw and count people on the bus and Numicon buses. |
Paint a bus and play a bus board game |
Transport cheese biscuits |
Wheels on the bus with instruments. Transport sponge prints,amaps. Slopes experiment. |
18.1.21 |
Cars |
Personalised number plates Meg’s Car |
Traffic survey – count the cars |
Car track prints |
Car toast & cucumber wheels |
Sew a Buddhist wheel. Number plate bingo. Cars & ramps. Cut & attach split pin car. Number tracks. |
25.1.21 |
Working Vehicles |
Fix it duck rhyming words Fix it duck |
Transport shape game and hammer and pin shapes. |
Junk model vehicles |
Vegetable traffic lights & dip |
Construction site role play. Digger tray. Shape magnets. Dump truck counting mats. Shape hunt in woods. |
1.2.21 |
Road safety |
Make a driving licence Susan Laughs |
3D shape construction vehicles |
Remote control cars |
Cheese wheel wrap |
Road signs. Magnets. Make up a journey story. Old and new transport. Soft blocks. Circle games. Garage and car wash role play. |
8.2.21 |
Chinese New Year |
Chinese banner writing The Magic Paintbrush |
Count and use positional language for Chinese animal race |
Make a lucky envelope and Chinese lantern |
Noodles & stir-fry |
Chinese restaurant role play. Red rice tray with chopsticks. Dragon dance. Dragon unifix patterns |