TOPIC – CHANGING MATERIALS (SCIENCE)

Sand/ Water

·  Ice shapes / Cubes / Margarine tub full of ice add salt / melt in water over week
·  Add washing up liquid / soap flakes make bubbles
·  Make gunge and play with – discuss language
·  Add water to sand – discuss differences
·  Compare shapes made from wet/ dry sand
·  Jelly in trays
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Small World

·  Mini beasts / polar bears / in soap flake slime ( Colour appropriately e.g. white for snow, black for mini-beasts / green)
·  Clean mud – Tissue paper, grated soap and water, make shapes and squash. Add small world toys, animals , people as appropriate
·  Add different materials to trays e.g. sand, compost, bark and explore. Make a playground in bark/ sand /

Writing

·  Sequence digital images and write captions, e.g. making jelly, melting chocolate
·  Simple recipe writing and instructions.
·  Shopping lists
·  Make recipe booklets, (staple, punch, stick pictures in …)

Outdoors

·  Write on yard in water, use large paint brushes and buckets of water
·  Natural material hunt
·  Looking at leaves at different times of year
·  Snowmen (Weather Permitting!)
·  Take water tray outside
·  Washing, discuss textures feeling of fabrics at various points)
·  Visit local bakery, pizzeria, restaurant, supermarkets etc. / Role Play
·  Play with kitchen timers.
·  Cooking / baking in home corner. Use a range of utensils, play food etc.
·  Add dry cooking materials, rice, lentils, pasta (Various shapes)
·  Bakery
·  Ginger bread man
·  Chocolate factory ( see Cadbury world) / Construction
·  Building with different materials
·  Mixing play cement in Dizzy, from Bob the Builder
·  Rolling play dough with Rolly
·  Building walls with small bricks
·  Building snow men
·  Use fondant icing, roll it, colour it, shape it
·  Baking biscuits, bread, cakes, toast, chocolate /

Creative

·  Playdough / clay pots and shapes
·  Bubble pictures
·  Printing with a variety of materials
·  Mixing paint, powder to liquid
·  Add sand sawdust, washing up liquid to paint and discuss textures
·  Compare thick paint to water, explore on a slope, or in a picture
·  Stretching, rolling, squashing, twisting, play dough, plasticine etc.
·  Compare models made from different modelling materials, e.g. soft-fun compare to salt dough

Health & Safety

·  Hygiene when cooking
·  Safety when heating
·  Do not touch ice straight out of a freezer /

Culture and Diversity

·  Food from a range of cultures
·  Be aware of children who cannot eat jelly from different cultures, use gelatine free

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