Woodside Primary School
Believe, Achieve, Succeed
Nursery
Our themes will include puppets, dinosaurs, favourite toys, toy shops, old and new toys, teddies and Christmas. At home you could follow up our work by:
- Reading stories about toys – such as the Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs stories by Ian Whybrow, Kipper’s Toybox by Mick Inkpen, Where’s my Teddy? by Jez Alborough.
- Making up stories with your child using their toys as the central characters or settings, such as Teddy’s tea party or a day at the zoo.
- Sorting toys into groups, according to their colour, size or what they are made from.
- Talking about toys that you or their Grandparents enjoyed playing with. If you are interested in toys from the past, the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood is a great place to visit.
- Helping your child to choose and cut pictures of toys out of catalogues to make a letter to Father Christmas.
- Talking about ways in which you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or other festivals.
Dates for this half term:
Monday 4th November – Back to nursery.
Sunday 24th November – Woodside Christmas Fair.
Friday 6th December - Nursery and Reception Christmas performance 10:45am – details to follow (we hope that you would all like to come and watch.)
Tuesday 10th December – New nursery children visiting nursery.
Friday 13th December – PTA Christmas gifts.
Thursday 19th December – Nursery Christmas Party and Term Ends.
It would be great to know more about your child’s interests and hobbies. Please add to Tapestry any special visits, activities, family days out, events or achievements so that we can talk about them in nursery. Also, If any Grandparent or parent has an old toy that we could show to the children, that would be wonderful.
What is nursery doing this half term? Toys
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Date |
Theme |
Small Group work |
Cooking |
Other |
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Communication, Language and Literacy |
Mathematical Development |
Understanding the World, Physical Development and Expressive Arts & Design |
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4.11 |
Puppets |
Puppet shows |
Measure Pinocchio’s nose |
Make a puppet |
Bread stick sparklers |
Pinocchio & firework dances. Chalk fireworks. Car ramp. Measure mini me’s. Thread Cheerios. |
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11.11 |
Dinosaurs |
Set up dinosaur museum and dig |
Harry & his dinosaurs – what will fit in a bucket? |
Salt dough dinosaurs |
Salt dough |
Dig for dinosaur bones. Order numbered dinosaur footprints. Dino stencils. Dino shape board game. |
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18.11 |
Favourite Toys |
‘Show and Tell’ our favourite toy |
Favourite toy pictogram |
Draw their favourite toy. |
Smoothies |
Skittles with score sheet. Magic painting. Daily pictograms. Apparatus. Bikes on big playground. |
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25.11 |
Toy shop |
Recognise toy labels |
Buying toys using coins |
Cut, stick and write a class toy catalogue |
Fruit scones |
Design a Lego person. Search for money in the sand pit. Cornflour mark making. Octoplay. |
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2.12 |
Old and new toys |
Recognise toy labels – environmental print |
Direct a remote controlled robot. |
Investigate moving toys |
Cinnamon dough |
Describe & sort old and new toys. Order sized robots. Construct robots. Skittles. Perform nativity. |
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9.12 |
Teddy bears |
Retell bear hunt with instruments |
Weigh & order 3 teddies |
Create a bear hunt map. |
Mince pies |
Trace a teddy. Bear Hunt parachute & movement. Decorate Christmas tree. Christmas sponge printing. Santa’s workshop role play |
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16.12 |
Christmas |
Write name for Christmas card |
Christmas shape stars |
Make a Christmas card. |
Party food |
Christmas rubber stamps. Hanukkah. Party games and hats. Woollen nativity set. |
Here are some photos taken during our 'People who help us' topic in September-October 2019
Here are some photos of nursery in June/July 2019, including sports day. Our topic for the half term was flight.
Here are some photos taken during our 'Growing' topic in April-May 2019
Here are some pictures taken during our 'Shops' topic in March 2019, including some Easter fun!
Here are some photos from January-February 2019 of our transport topic and Chinese New Year celebrations.
