Friends– Activity overview

Nursery activity overview

Friends / PSED
Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
Is more outgoing towards unfamiliar people and more confident in new social situations. / Small group games building confidence and relationships with children and their adults.
Duck duck goose and other circle games in the hall.
CL
• Responds to simple instructions, e.g. to get or put away an object.
• Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall. / . Reading and sharing stories with children.
. Learning the nursery’s boundaries and routines. Sharing equipment and toys using sand timers.
. Forming new relationships with peers and adults through ring games and small group activities.
Circle times with Lola and beat baby. / Literacy
• Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw
And paint. / . Inviting book areas inside and out to build on the children’s interest in books.
. Set out lots of writing frames for the children to do their mark making (school role play on the small world)
Set up lots of writing frames for children to mark make. Set up a post office area in the literacy area for children to mark make.
Maths
• Shows an interest in numerals in the environment.
• Shows interest in shapes in the environment. / . Number songs
. Number lines both hanging and displayed on the floor.
. Shape games ( magic shape bag )
Shape table in the maths area using the shape sorters, wooden shapes and puzzles. Making a new number line for the maths area. / UW
• Shows care and concern for living things and the environment. / . Sharing past and present events they have shared with their family during group time.
. Investigating the natural environment and nursery surroundings using our magnifying glasses and investigation equipment.
Set up a bug table with various mini beasts and magnifying glasses. Investigation area outside in the forest school area. Let the children have a tick sheet of bugs that they can find.
Physical
• Dresses with help, e.g. puts arms into open-fronted coat or shirt when held up, pulls up own trousers, and pulls up zipper once it is fastened at the bottom.
• Moves freely and with pleasure and confidence in a range of ways, such as slithering, shuffling, rolling, crawling, walking, running, jumping, skipping, sliding and hopping. / . Physical activities including balancing and climbing equipment.
. Promoting positive independence with regards to toilet training, hand washing and dressing at snack and home time.
Set up an obstacle course outside in the garden. Car ramp and car mat set. / EAD
• Realises tools can be used for a purpose.
• Engages in imaginative role-play based on own first-hand experiences / . Set up lots of role play situations.
. Nursery rhymes, circle games.
Emotion faces on plates using paint and colouring pencils. Continue with the welcome display board.