Week beginning: 7th January 2013

AREA / ACTIVITY / FOCUS
Sand/Water Tray / Sand tray (children’s request) with buckets and spades / Sharing the resources/taking turns
Use of timer
Modelling / Playdough / Making snowmen with playdough, pebbles, felt, etc
Baking/Cooking / Melting Snowmen Biscuits / Following a set of instructions to bake the biscuits and to decorate the biscuits
Painting / Free painting (children’s request) / Children to paint pictures and express themselves through use of painting
Construction / Construction Blocks
Mobilo / Working co-operatively in small groups
Following a set of instructions
Arts and Crafts / Winnie the Witch Winter display (children’s request)
Winter Animals / To work together in small groups and individually to create a new wall display for our Cosy Corner
Pictures of animals that are found in Winter
Sorting / Snowman Button Sorting
Snowball Sorting / To sort the snowman’s buttons by colour and number
To sort the snowballs by number
Writing Table / Writing Names / Practice writing names, looking at formation
Mathematics / Estimation / Estimate how many snowballs are needed to fill a snowman...then try it out, recording evidence
Puzzles/Board Games / Polar
Penguin Pile Up / Fine motor skills
Sharing resources and taking turns
Stories / Winter Related / Listening to a variety of Winter related stories of different lengths
Songs/Action Songs/Rhymes / Winter related / Fully participating throughout
Small World / Farm Set (children’s request) / Sharing the resources and taking turns
Cutting / Old Christmas Cards / Free cutting with old Christmas Cards to make pictures
Home Corner / Home Corner (Children’s request) / To share the resources
Role play
Physical Play / P.E. with Mr Williamson
Music / Music with Mrs Johnson / Winter related
Outdoor Play / Free choice
Dressing for outdoor play / To share resources
To dress up appropriately for the weather and practice with gloves, zips, buttons, etc
ICT / Free Play / Choosing games from Busy Things
Numbers / Individual / Recognising and ordering the numbers
Letters / Individual / Letter sounds
Circle Time / Discussions / What snow/ice is made from?
Variety of winter counting songs.
What we do in the snow class book.
Mittens or gloves chart.
Visits/Visitors / Mrs Johnson – new music teacher / Getting to know Mrs Johnson through a variety of songs
Learning Stories/Targets / Individual / Update learning stories
Discovery Table / Watching birds / Throw small seeds/bread outside for the birds
Corridor / Winter animals / Display on some of the animals we have looked at
Home Link / Old Christmas Cards / If you have any old Christmas cards that you no longer need...we would love them. Thanks.
Co-operative Learning / Winnie the Witch wall display
Co-operative guessing activities / Work together to produce a piece of work where all children have had a chance to add their work
Work together to make sensible estimations on how many snowballs it will take to cover the snowmen
WALT / Winter