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Nursery Activities and Events Autumn 2015 Here is a list of activities that we will be celebrating and discussing over the next term (September - December 2015).
Please take note of the 'Ideas for Home' box that will enable you to join us!
Date and event/activity What we will be doing Ideas for home
6th September: Highlands Games
Finding out what the Highland Games are.
Listen to some Scottish Bagpipe Music.
Toss the caber!
Learn to do a Highland fling.
Have some Haggis for tea.
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6th September: Regata Storica (Italian)
Find out where Venice is on the map.
Floating and Sinking.
Look at Gondolas and the canals in Venice.
Make box boats for Role Play.
Have an Italian Meal.
Go for a row at Swanbourne Lake.
8th September: Literacy Day
What's our favourite book?
Review our favourite story. Trip to the library.
Trip to the library. Read a bedtime story together.
13th September: Grandparents Day
Talk about our Grandparents and why they are special.
Make a card for our Grandparents. Paint a picture of our Grandparents.
Visit out Grandparents. Make cakes for our
Grandparents. Give our Grandparents a
telephone call if we cannot visit them.
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13th September: Roald Dhal Day
Trip to the library to find some Roald Dhal books.
Read some Roald Dahl stories and poems.
Create some Roald Dhal pictures.
Write a story together.
Read a Roald Dhal story
Watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Visit the Roald Dhal Museum.
19th September: Talk like a Pirate Day
Visit the Pirate Park. Make a Pirate Hat. Come to Nursery dressed as a Pirate. Learn some Pirate words. Read Pirate Stories. Go on a Treasure Hunt.
Take a trip to Splash Point Park.
Go on a Treasure Hunt. Find out about Captain Hook
and Peter Pan.
19th September – 4th October: Food Fortnight
What is your favourite food?
Create our own recipe book.
Restaurant Role Play Area.
Trip to the local café for snack.
Help Clare or Sue make tea.
Horsham District Food & Drink Festival.
Have a family meal comprising of our favourite foods.
Try foods from different countries
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19th September – 4th October: Oktoberfest (Germany)
What is Oktoberfest?
Make some German Food.
Make 3-d fun fair models.
Visit a fun fair.
Enjoy a Bratwurst Hotdog
Make a Black Forest Gateau.
21st September: International Peace
Day
Explore the meaning behind Peace.
Create our own symbols of peace and explore other cultures symbols of peace.
Design and make our own peace birds.
Design and make and decorate your own peace bird.
Go to the Library and look at books on international peace day.
Research international peace day on the computer, to see how other countries around the world celebrate the day.
23rd September: First Day of Autumn
Go for a walk to look for signs of Autumn
Collect leaves from a range of different trees and explore the differences and similarities.
Colour sorting/mixing. Talk about hibernation and the different
animals that hibernate.
Make bird feeders for the birds & animals in your gardens at home.
Go for a walk and make giant leaf castles.
Talk about the different animals that come out at different times of the year.
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24th -27th September 2013: Harvest Festival
Making Bread - exploring different types of bread and where in the world they are made/eaten.
Explore the meaning behind the Harvest Festival.
Collecting a range of tinned goods to donate to the local Church.
Go to a bakery.
Make our own sandwiches.
Visit the Library to collect books about the Harvest Festival.
Visit your local Church and attend the Harvest Festival service.
27th September: Mooncake Festival (China)
Where is China on the map?
Make a Chinese meal, stir fry and spring rolls.
Visit the Chinese Super Market.
Look at the moon and the different types of moons, half, full, eclipse.
Trip to the Moon.
Make a Mooncake.
Look at the moon in the night sky, what can you see?
1st October: Older People’s Day
Do we know any older people?
Visit Methold House or a local Old People’s Home.
Visit an Older person that you may know either a grandparent or a family friend.
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8th October: National Poetry day
Reading and listening to some poetry. Make up our own poems. Learn about rhyming words.
A trip to the Library for poetry books.
Ask family members what their favourite poem is.
Watch children’s rhyming TV programmes.
4th – 10th October: Space Week
Find out about the planets. Read ‘Whatever Next’. Go to Space. Create our own Aliens.
Look at the night sky to look at the stars.
Look through a telescope into the night sky.
Look for shooting stars.
24th October: United Nations Day
Find countries on the map.
Where do we live?
How do we say hello in different languages.
Taste food from different cultures.
Look at flags from different countries.
Look on Google Earth to look at places of interest.
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25th October: Clocks go back
Talk about time. Visual Timetables. Talk about seasons.
Remember to put your clocks back.
Have an extra hour in bed!!!!
28th October – 1st November: Salon du Chocolate (France)
Look at different forms of chocolate (cocoa beans, cocoa powder & different types of chocolate (white/milk/dark).
Where does chocolate come from?
Make chocolate cakes.
Enjoy a hot chocolate drink.
Experiment with hard chocolate and melted chocolate.
31st October : Halloween
Come to Nursery in fancy dress. Make pumpkin faces/carving pumpkins. Enjoy pumpkin soup. Apple bobbing.
Make pumpkin faces/carving pumpkins.
Go trick or treating. Make spooky masks.
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1st November: Brighton Veteran Car Run
Look at old cars.
Create some cars from large boxes.
Find out about the differences between vintage cars and modern cars – electric cars and crank start cars.
Design your favourite cars.
Look at different cars, 3-wheelers, family cars, big wheeled cars, F1 cars.
Visit to Brighton to see the old cars.
5th November: Bonfire Night
Making firework pictures.
Talk about fire safety.
Descriptive words for fireworks.
Have sparklers.
Go to an organised firework display.
Toast marshmallows.
11th November: Remembrance Day
Making a wreath.
Walking to the local war memorial to place our wreaths.
Observing a minute’s silence.
Talk about the reasons behind Remembrance Day.
Visit to Remembrance Day Parade
Design and make a poppy.
Speak to grandparents about what they remember of the war.
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11th November: Diwali
Listen to the story of Diwali.
Make clay Divas.
Taste Indian food.
Make Rangoli patterns
Visit an Indian restaurant.
Take Diwali candles home, put them in tea light holders and light them.
Hang up Rangoli patterns as decorations.
13th November: Children in Need
Lots of fun filled activities including dressing up and a cake sale.
Watch Children in Need
Donate some pennies
Sponsor a child
26th November: Thanksgiving (USA)
Find America on the map. Make Pumpkin Pie. Colour an American Flag. Listen to Star Spangled Banner. Make a Thank You Card.
Have a roast dinner to celebrate.
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30th November: St Andrews Day
Listen to bagpipe music.
Look at different types of tartans.
Design a kilt/tartan of our own.
Make a Scottish flag.
Find out about our family tartan.
Go to the Library to look at books on St Andrews Day.
Make some bag pipes out of junk modelling.
6th December : Hanukkah (Jewish)
Find out about the history of Hanukkah.
Make Latkes with the children to share.
Go to the Library to look at books on Hanukkah.
Go to the Library to look at books on Hanukkah.
Talk to a Jewish family about how they celebrate Hanukkah.
Take Nursery made Latkes home and put candles in to light every night.
14th December: Monkey Day
Find out about different types of monkeys.
Draw a picture of a monkey. Watch Monkey Business on You Tube. Talk about where the monkeys live.
Trip to Monkey World. Adopt a monkey. Find out about Monkey Day.
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21st December: Shortest Day
Discuss the change of seasons
Why is it the shortest day?
Go for a walk to see what changes we can see outside as winter begins.
Make some seasonal pictures.
Talk to family about the shortest day. Does it actually feel like the shortest day?
Talk about the different animals you see in the winter months, compared to the summer months.
24th December: Christmas Eve
Making Christmas cards
Making Christmas calendars, stockings, snowmen, robins, candy canes etc.
Talk about Father Christmas.
Perform the Nativity.
Read Christmas stories before bed.
Go carol singing around your neighbourhood.
Help parents prepare for Christmas dinner the next day.
Go to bed early. Leave out your stocking and
don't forget to leave Father Christmas his mince pie and sprinkle your reindeer dust.
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25th December: Christmas Day
NURSERY CLOSED.
Open presents.
Enjoy family company.
Eat lots of Christmas food! ... and from all of us at Discovery ‘Merry Christmas!’
31st December: Hogmanay
NURSERY CLOSED.
Go and watch a firework display.
Learn to count back from 10 to 1, to count down to the New Year.
Find out what the Scottish do to celebrate Hogmanay.
