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Weekly Adventure

 Each week, we update the focus for learning for each colour adventurer group.

Please click on your child's group tab to find our more....

  Blue Adventurers

Skill of the Week-Create

 

  • Manipulating- Explore materials using senses.

 

Story of the Week

 The Gruffalo's Child/Explore other Julia Donaldson stories following children's interests

 

  • Listen to different Julia Donaldson Stories
  • Story map, discuss characters, act out. How do they compare
  • Explore and learn about creatures/animals/habitats using Non fiction books (for example; snails from 'Snail and the Whale')
  • Recreate story with different scenarios (innovate)

 

 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

 

 

Rhyme of the Week

 Froebel’s ‘mother songs’ and ring games focused on developing individual and whole body parts, starting with the hands, fingers and body movements, followed by coordinating movement and moving onto symbolic representation, where the fingers might symbolize a climbing spider.’ Froebel, F. (1878)

  • Explore sounds with instruments (like bells, xylophones, or maracas) while introducing the song,  building the  connection between music and movement.
  • Incorporate hand motions that reflect the song’s meaning (e.g., fingers "twinkling" like stars). Encourage children to follow along with gestures to enhance their engagement and understanding.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/Ew8Dqgn6sys#t=0.5

 

Phonics of the Week

Environmental Sounds

 

What sounds can you hear all around you?

Listen carefully on your way to and from nursery.

 

  • Exploring Environmental Sounds in Nature
    Just like in The Gruffalo's Child, where the woods are filled with mysterious creatures and sounds, encourage children to listen for animal noises, rustling leaves, or the wind as they walk through natural environments. These sounds create a sensory connection with nature, like the eerie or comforting sounds in Julia Donaldson's stories.

     

Finished

 

Sign of the Week

 

 Finished

 

 Makaton for 'to finish / all gone' (youtube.com)

 

Vocabulary of the Week

 

Squeeze

 

Push Pull

Home Learning

Can you make your own playdough using different natural materials?

  Pink Adventurers

Skill of the Week

 

Connect-Structure; Knows a story has a beginning, middle and end

 

 

 

 

 

Story of the Week

 The Gruffalo's Child/Explore other Julia Donaldson stories following children's interests

 

  • Listen to different Julia Donaldson Stories
  • Story map, discuss characters, act out. How do they compare.
  • Explore and learn about creatures/animals/habitats using Non fiction books (for example; snails from 'Snail and the Whale')
  • Recreate story with different scenarios (innovate)

 

 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

 

 

 

Rhyme of the Week

 Froebel’s ‘mother songs’ and ring games focused on developing individual and whole body parts, starting with the hands, fingers and body movements, followed by coordinating movement and moving onto symbolic representation, where the fingers might symbolize a climbing spider.’ Froebel, F. (1878)

 

  • Explore sounds with instruments (like bells, xylophones, or maracas) while introducing the song,  building the  connection between music and movement.
  • Incorporate hand motions that reflect the song’s meaning (e.g., fingers "twinkling" like stars). Encourage children to follow along with gestures to enhance their engagement and understanding.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/Ew8Dqgn6sys#t=0.5

 

Phonics of the Week

Environmental Sounds

 

What sounds can you hear all around you?

Listen carefully on your way to and from nursery.

 

 

Exploring Environmental Sounds in Nature
Just like in The Gruffalo's Child, where the woods are filled with mysterious creatures and sounds, encourage children to listen for animal noises, rustling leaves, or the wind as they walk through natural environments. These sounds create a sensory connection with nature, like the eerie or comforting sounds in Julia Donaldson's stories.

Sign of the Week

 

 Finished

 Makaton for 'to finish / all gone' (youtube.com)

Vocabulary of the Week

 

 Beginning

 

End 

 

 and

 

Home Learning

What’s your favourite story to read at home? Share pics on Tapestry 

  Purple Adventurers

Skill of the Week

 

Create- Joining wind up glue sticks/cellotape

 

 

 

 

Story of the Week

 The Gruffalo's Child/Explore other Julia Donaldson stories following children's interests

 

  • Listen to different Julia Donaldson Stories
  • Story map, discuss characters, act out. How do they compare.
  • Explore and learn about creatures/animals/habitats using Non fiction books (for example; snails from 'Snail and the Whale')
  • Recreate story with different scenarios (innovate)

 

 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

 

 

 

Rhyme of the Week

 Froebel’s ‘mother songs’ and ring games focused on developing individual and whole body parts, starting with the hands, fingers and body movements, followed by coordinating movement and moving onto symbolic representation, where the fingers might symbolize a climbing spider.’ Froebel, F. (1878)

 

  • Explore sounds with instruments (like bells, xylophones, or maracas) while introducing the song,  building the  connection between music and movement.
  • Incorporate hand motions that reflect the song’s meaning (e.g., fingers "twinkling" like stars). Encourage children to follow along with gestures to enhance their engagement and understanding.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/Ew8Dqgn6sys#t=0.5

 

Phonics of the Week

Environmental Sounds

 

What sounds can you hear all around you?

Listen carefully on your way to and from nursery.

 

 

Exploring Environmental Sounds in Nature
Just like in The Gruffalo's Child, where the woods are filled with mysterious creatures and sounds, encourage children to listen for animal noises, rustling leaves, or the wind as they walk through natural environments. These sounds create a sensory connection with nature, like the eerie or comforting sounds in Julia Donaldson's stories.

Sign of the Week

 

Finished

 

 Makaton for 'to finish / all gone' (youtube.com)

 

Vocabulary of the Week

 

Stick 

Open Make

Home Learning

Spend time exploring and learning all about Julia Donaldson and her stories. Could you visit the library and find any more books she has written? 

 

  Yellow Adventurers

Skill of the Week

 

Understanding- Responds to a one part instruction (Consolidate learning from previous week)

 

 

 

 

 

Story of the Week

 The Gruffalo's Child/Explore other Julia Donaldson stories following children's interests

 

  • Listen to different Julia Donaldson Stories
  • Story map, discuss characters, act out. How do they compare.
  • Explore and learn about creatures/animals/habitats using Non fiction books (for example; snails from 'Snail and the Whale')
  • Recreate story with different scenarios (innovate)

 

 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

 

 

 

Rhyme of the Week

 Froebel’s ‘mother songs’ and ring games focused on developing individual and whole body parts, starting with the hands, fingers and body movements, followed by coordinating movement and moving onto symbolic representation, where the fingers might symbolize a climbing spider.’ Froebel, F. (1878)

 

  • Explore sounds with instruments (like bells, xylophones, or maracas) while introducing the song,  building the  connection between music and movement.
  • Incorporate hand motions that reflect the song’s meaning (e.g., fingers "twinkling" like stars). Encourage children to follow along with gestures to enhance their engagement and understanding.

 

//www.youtube.com/embed/Ew8Dqgn6sys#t=0.5

 

Phonics of the Week

Environmental Sounds

 

What sounds can you hear all around you?

Listen carefully on your way to and from nursery.

 

 

Exploring Environmental Sounds in Nature
Just like in The Gruffalo's Child, where the woods are filled with mysterious creatures and sounds, encourage children to listen for animal noises, rustling leaves, or the wind as they walk through natural environments. These sounds create a sensory connection with nature, like the eerie or comforting sounds in Julia Donaldson's stories.

Sign of the Week

 

Finished

 

 Makaton for 'to finish / all gone' (youtube.com)

 

Vocabulary of the Week

 

Now/Next

In Under On

Home Learning

Can you collect sticks to make stick men? share your creations on Tapestry