Nursery (Summer 1)
Old McDonald had a Farm
Here are the fun and exciting activities that your child will be
participating in over the next half term
Prime Area: Personal, Social and Emotional
development (PSED)
Caring for the environment- A visit to a local farm
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Showing care and concern for others – looking after the
tadpoles and caring for their needs.
Turn-taking, sharing and working cooperatively: games
and jigsaws.
Opportunities for older children
to support younger children
Prime Area: Communication and Language (CL)
Prime Area: Physical Development (PD)
Listening to and joining in with stories and rhymes that
relate to farms.
Healthy eating- chopping & tasting a variety of veg
P.E. every Friday
Use the sound buttons to record a variety of animal
noises.
Participate in fine motor skills- making
clay farm animals.
Participate in role-play to develop speaking and listening
skills.
Complete farm related jigsaws
Outside provision- running, jumping,
Regular Phase 1 activities to develop
phonological awareness
climbing, balancing, stopping.
.
Topic ideas relating to the theme: Old McDonald!
Topics will now be child-led and planning will reflect
the interests of the children. To inspire the children
Specific Area: Literacy (L)
Listening to and joining in with a wide
selection of books relating to farms ie
Farmer Duck, What the Ladybird Heard,
the Little Red Hen.
Listening to and joining in with songs relating to farms i.e.
Old McDonald, Little Bo Peep, The Farmers in his den, This
little piggy,
Writing names and other words i.e. pig, cow, dog,
c
Specific Area: Expressive Arts & Design (EAD)
Participate in farm small world and
role
farm shop role-play
we will plan for themes but these may change due to
Make clay animals
interests.
Painting pictures of animals- choosing colours for a
purpose and giving meaning to marks.
Specific Area: Understanding the World (UW)
Planting- flowers and vegetables.
Naming/sorting animals and their young.
Looking at the products that we get from animals ie
milk, wool, beef etc
Looking at change and talking about the similarities
and differences over time.- frog life cycle, plants.
Specific Area: Mathematics (M)
Weigh a variety of vegetables and compare the
weights. Discuss which are the heaviest, lightest
and which are the same.
Use the toy farm animals to add and subtract.
Sort the toys animals into groups and compare which has the
most and least.
ICT- making farm pictures. Drag objects.
Parents as Partners (home-school links): *We have been using ‘Fred Frog talk’ to say sounds in words and the children are getting very good at
Lookingi.e.
at if
xray
the hospital
role play.
hearing the sounds and blending them together
we pictures
say c-a-tin(sounds)
the children
hear the sounds
and
us the numbers
word is cat. Try the following list of
Looking
at tell
telephone
Learning
names
of
body
parts.
words and encourage your child to listen and tell you what the word is: p-i-g, d-o-g, sh-ee-p, r-a-t, c-ow, d-u-ck You could also encourage your child to draw a
picture of each animal and then you can write the word, emphasising each sound as you write it. Can your child have a go at writing the words?
We are always eager to see any work that your child does at home. Please feel free to bring in any examples of the above.