Chapel Street Nursery School

Planning

Long term plan - Spring 2 planning

Long term plan - second half of Spring term

The main theme this half term are Life cycles and Spring.  We have some examples of these in the Parents page, under This Term, where there are pictures of tadpoles and frogs, and chicks hatching from their eggs with a video of the chicks in their incubator.

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Medium term plan - weekly planning

Plans for activities 15-19 March 2021

Week 4: 15-19 March 2021

Activity sheets

Busy Bees Craft

Bubble Wrap Rain Cloud

Grow a sunflower in a biodegradable pot

Feed the Hungry Caterpillar

Fried eggs letter recognition

Marble flower painting

Butterfly sticky wall

Bee Puppet

Easter Chick Sewing Craft

Frog Life Cycle Book

Handprint Chicks

Mix and Match Patterned Eggs

Frog ball and cup game

Care bear craft

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Plans for activities 8-12 March 2021

Week 3: 8-12 March 2021

Activity sheets 

Pepper printing - St Patrick's Day

Growing beans on cotton wool

Easter chick

Egg and spoon race

Easter egg emotions

Celery printing Mother's Day cards

Blossom tree

Red Cross Krispies for St George's Day

St George's Dragon

St George's Flag

Caterpillar Counting

Frog Life Cycle Craft

Tweezer skills - Easter ideas

Rainbow fruit kebabs

Frog Pond Sensory Bin

Paper Bag Frog Puppet

Salt Dough and Fork Tulips

Mini beast Spotter

Shamrock Salad Spinner

Leprechauns with hair

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Plans for activities 1-5 March 2021

Week 2: 1-5 March 2021

Activity sheets

Easter bunny plate

Easter basket idea

Easter box decoration

Egg hanging window decoration

Easter egg hunt

Easter Bunny Painting

Pasta and noodle eggs

Easter threading

Phonics stomp and read

Letter tracing

Mother's day vanilla cupcakes

Pumpkin life cycle

Cupcake flowers

Elmer World Book Day activities - 4 March

St George's Day biscuits

St George's Day kite

Mother's Day Daisy bookmark

Mother's Day Handprint Heart

Mother's day cheesecake

St Patrick’s leprechaun paper plate mask

Peanut butter bird feeders

Spring hunt checklist

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Plans for activities 22-26 February 2021

Week 1: 22-26 February 2021

Activity sheets

Make an edible chocolate bowl

The life cycle of a butterfly

Make peppermint creams for Valentine's day or Mother's day

The Butterflies Song

Make a Chinese Lantern for Chinese New Year

Try the Doughnut game on Pancake Day

Phonics - Initial sound

Letter formation

Letter hunt activity

Seed Activity

Butterfly lifecycle tuff tray activity

Butterfly life cycle mobile

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 Long term plan - Spring 1 planning

Long term plan - first half of Spring term

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Medium term plan - weekly planning

Plans for activities 8-11 February 2021

Week 5: 8-11 February 2021

Activity Sheets

Make a Valentine's heart for threading

Draw sunglasses or an umbrella

Valentine's Day poems

Bird cake activity

Making a stick man

Water cycle activity

Rain cloud experiment

Weather collage and other activities 

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Plans for activities 1-5 February 2021

Week 4: 1-5 February 2021

Activity Sheets

Making binoculars

Ice skating animals or people

Measuring with raindrops

Rain cloud science

Number cloud

Sunshine snack

Umbrella bean bag throw

Rainbow box - colour sorting

Recycling activity - sea life

Recycling at nursery and at home

Make your own castanets with recycled items

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Plans for activities 25-29 January 2021

Week 3: 25-29 January 2021

Activity Sheets 

Snow shovelling

Making fake snow

Puddle jumping

Oil spill experiment

Recording the weather with a drawing

How to make a pinecone bird feeder

Decomposition

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 In the video below, Abby reads Cub's First Winter by Rebecca Elliott - all about winter weather.