Spring Term Weekly Themes 2015
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Date
05.01.15 & 06.01.15
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Theme
New Year
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07.01.15 – 13.01.15
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Transport
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14.01.15 – 20.01.15
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Transport
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21.01.15 – 27.01.15
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Transport
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28.01.15 – 03.02.15
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Animals
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04.02.15 – 10.02.15
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Animals
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11.02.15 – 13.02.15
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Chinese new year
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23.02.15 – 03.03.15
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Mini-beasts
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C.Doherty
Examples of activities
What I did over the holidays
Thank you cards for parents
& Father Christmas
Car / taxi / bus
Role-play
Travelling to school and back
Sorting exercises
Trains
Train station role play
(buying tickets / ticket
inspector etc)
Aeroplanes
Passports – stamps for
passports
Pets: common domestic
animals
How to look after
animals/their needs
‘What am I?’ game
Animals in the wild
Safari animals
Collage
Masks
Food
Goat mobile
Very hungry caterpillar
sequencing
Making mini beast puppets
Plymouth Grove Resource Provision
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New year promise boxes
New year cards
2015 banner
Bicycle
Threading
Games
Maps
Train sequencing
Writing sentences about
trains
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Boats
Helicopters
Travelling overseas –looking
at flying over water etc…
Going to the vets: role play,
sequencing, what a vet does
etc...
Animal role-play
Old Mac Donald theme
Animal role-play
Spots and stripes
‘In the jungle’
Jungle movement
The year of the goat
Chinese dragon
Snails, slugs and worms
Lady birds
Habitats
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The Sunshine Room
Spring Term Weekly Themes 2015
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04.03.15 – 10.03.15
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Mini beast role play
Animal & Insect masks and
models
Butterflies
Symmetrical patterns
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Mini-beast hunt
Looking at similarities and
differences of mini-beasts &
animals
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 Using internet to find out
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more about animals &
insects
 Construction models of
animals & insects using
duplo & sticklebrick
11.03.15 – 17.03.15
 Mini-beasts
 Animals and their babies
 Observational drawings of
animals and insects
 Noah’s Ark
 Looking at camouflage
 Animal & Insect masks and
models
 Small world play – variety of
habitats e.g. zoo, jungle,
farm, dinosaur worlds etc
 Animal & Insect songs
18.03.15 – 24.03.15
 Spring
 Flowers
 Spring craft
 Growing
 Grass head monster
 Mini blossom trees
 Hand print flowers
25.03.15 – 27.03.15
 Spring
 Painted flower pots
 Spring patterns
 Flower biscuits
 Bird’s nest collage
 Flower cup cakes
 Planting and looking after
plants
30.03.15 – 02.04.15
 Easter
 Easter bonnets
 Easter cards
 Easter baskets
 Egg decorating
 Cakes
 Easter egg hunt
*These are some of the ideas we will use during the topics, you can also talk with your child and complete some of these activities at home too.
C.Doherty
Mini-beasts
Plymouth Grove Resource Provision
The Sunshine Room