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Nursery Activities and Events Summer 2017

Here is a list of activities that we will be celebrating and discussing over the next term (May – August 2017).

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 in Nursery Ideas for Home

April 29th – May 5th – RSPCA week

Talk about animals, what animals do we have at home?

Find out about animal lives, animal families, animal

homes, animal diets.

Make an animal home with Junk Modelling

Talk about how we should look after animals

Visit the Dogs Trust and take a dog for a walk.

Get a pet!

Visit the Zoo

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Date and Event/Activity What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home

May 1st: May Day (UK)

May Pole Dancing

Make a flower garland/hoop to carry Look at Morris Dancing.

Look out for May Bank Holiday Celebrations

May 2nd – Princess Charlotte’s Birthday

Make A Birthday card to send to the Princess.

Make a birthday board and birthday wish list Who

is in Princess Charlottes Family?

Visit Kensington Palace.

May 1st – May 7th: Children’s Book Week

Trip to the library

Who is our favourite author?

Create a book review

Create a book display about our favourite book/authors

Dress up as our favourite book characters

Trip to the library

Share our favourite stories at bedtime

Have bedtime stories

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Date and Event/Activity What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home

May 5th: Cinco De Mayo (Mexico)

Find Mexico on the Map

Listen to Mariachi Music

Enjoy some Mexican Food, Tacos or Fajitas

Have a Piñata

Have a Mexican Meal

Make a Sombrero

May 12th – Space Day

Make a space rocket Have

a trip to the moon.

Find out about space and the solar system

Junk Model Planets

Trip to Chichester Planetarium.

Star Gazing

May 14th: National Children’s Day (UK)

Talk about our behaviour and Rights

Make Nursery Golden Rules Who

are our friends?

Find out about what makes us special

Have a mini-party to celebrate

This year’s theme is Science and Magic so magic tricks and science experiments.

Treat our children to something special

Visit friends with children

May 15th – June 15th: National Smile Month

Have a visit from the Dentist

Practice brushing our teeth

Counting how many teeth we have

Look at good/bad oral hygiene

Sorting foods that are good and bad for our teeth.

Visit a dentist

Practice brushing our teeth

Buy a new toothbrush

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Date and Event/Activity What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home

May 24th: Victoria Day (Canada)

Find out about Queen Victoria

Find a Canadian Flag

Make a Canadian Flag

Are they any other Victoria’s in the world, eg Lake

Victoria, Victoria Falls

Have Maple Syrup Pancakes for breakfast.

May 21st – June 1st: National Family Week

Talk about who is in our family

Make a family tree

Paint family pictures/create a family display Talk about our Little Monkeys Family.

Have a family meal

Go on a family outing

Visit family you haven’t seen for a while Research your family.

May 28th: World Play Day – Children’s Right to

Play Day

What are our favourite games?

Spend the day at the park playing out favourite games

Why is physical play so important?

Let’s play outside!!

Go out for the day and play at the parks, beach,

anywhere.

Have lots of fun in the sun!

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Date and Event/Activity What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home

May 30th: Cheese Rolling Festival (UK)

• Taste different cheeses

• Look at how cheese is made

• What is our favourite cheese?

• Can we roll a babybel? – Cheese Rolling Races

• Cheese Cooking – cheese straws, cheese muffins etc

Enjoy a cheesy tea!!!!

June 1st: International Children’s Day

• Find out about children around the world

• Look at how we are the same and differ to our friends in

different countries

• Set up a Pen Pal in a different country and write to them

• Visit a family from a different country

• Have a family meal

June 3rd – National Donut Day

• Make our own Donuts

• Create our own flavoured donuts

• Make a graph about our favourite donuts

• Visit Krispy Kreme

• Have Donuts for tea?

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Date and Event/Activity What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home

June 5th – June 11th: Child Safety Week

Talk about how we can keep safe

Look at road safety

Who helps us keep safe? – police, lollipop men, doctors, dentists etc

• Discuss P.A.N.T.S.

• How do we keep safe at home

June 11th: Trooping the Colour

Talk about the Queen

Make a Bearskin Hat

March in time with each other

Talk about the different Armed Forces

Watch the parade on television

June 15th: National Bug Busting Day:

Go on a bug hunt

What is our favourite bug?

Butterfly Paintings

• Are there bugs in your gardens?

• Create a bug habitat box

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Date and Event/Activity What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home

June 16th – Save the Children Den Day

Find out what the Songkran Water Festival is.

Lots and lots of water play

Find out about Thailand? Where is it? Can we learn to say a few Thai words Have a Thai visitor

Have a Thai Banquet

June 18th: Father’s Day

Make Fathers Day Cards Invite our Daddy’s to tea

• Spoil our Daddy’s with breakfast in bed • Have a celebratory lunch ir dinner • Go for a nice family walk somewhere special

June 24th: Midsummers Day

Talk about the longest day

Make a calendar

Learn our months of the year

Have tea outside

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Date and Event/Activity What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home

June 29th: International Mud Day

Create Mud Pies

Make Mud Painting Who

lives in the mud?

Make our own swamps and muddy puddles to jump in and

explore

Create a Mud puddle to jump in

June 30th: MacMillan Cancer Dress up and

Dance

Take Photo Booth pictures to sell

Dress up as a dancer

Take part in Dance activities

• Have a dance around the house to your

favourite songs

• Buy your Photos

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3th – July 16th: Wimbledon

Go on a walk and take tennis racquets to play some

tennis

Make a trophy for the winner

Look at Tennis Champions

Find out about Andy Murray

Watch a little bit of the Championship

July 1st – 2nd – Wife Carrying Championship

(Finland)

Who would we marry?

Can we have race to see how far we can carry our ‘wife’

• Carry our wives everywhere!!!

• Have our championship race with our neighbours.

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Date and Event/Activity What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home

July 4th: American Independence Day

Colour an American Flag

Look at where America is on the World Map

Have an American Tea (Pumpkin Pie, Blueberry Pie, Pancakes)

Have an American Tea

Talk about holidays to America you may have

had

Look at American Landmarks

July 10th – Teddy Bear Picnic Day

Have a Teddy Bears Picnic

Bring our favourite teddy to school

Make a sandwich for our tea

Create some cakes

Find out about famous teddy’s (Winnie the Pooh)

Attend our teddy bears picnic

Have your own Picnic at home

July 15th: St Swithin’s Day

Make a Weather chart

Investigate rain and drying – measure puddles

Splashing in puddles

What is rain? What does it taste like?

What does rain do and where does it come from?

What happens if it rains today?

Go for a walk in the rain

Buy new wellies

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Date and Event/Activity What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home

July 22nd – Prince George’s Birthday

• Make George a Birthday card

• Have a birthday party for him

Have a tea party at home

July 23th – Parents Day

• Who are our Parents?

• Draw a family picture

• Do we look like our parents?

• Who is in our family?

Have a family day out

Visit our grandparents

July 27th – August 2nd: National Parks Week

• Find out what the National Parks are

• Visit the South Downs for a walk

• What makes the National Parks special?

Trip to the South Downs or New Forest

National Parks for the weekend

Go camping in the New Forest

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Date and Event/Activity What we will be doing in Nursery Ideas for Home

July 30th: International Day of Friendship

Who are our friends?

Why are our friends special?

What makes a good friend?

Make a friendship card to send to our best friends

Have a day trip with our friends

August 1st: Lammas Day

Talk about what Harvest is

Look at flour and how it is made

Trip to the windmill at High Salvington

Make bread

Taste different types of bread

Make our own sandwiches

Trip to High Salvington Windmill

Make our own picnic lunch

Look at breads on offer at the shops

Visit a bakery

August (T.B.C): - Graduation

Graduation Ceremony at Nursery for all the children and

their families

Talk about going to school

School displays

Dressing up in school uniform and have a ‘school’ day

Talk about going to school

School Visits

Stories about going to school

Buying school uniform

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August 16th – Tell a Joke Day

Create a joke book

What is our funniest joke?

What makes us laugh?

Can we do practical jokes?

Have a comedy show

What it our funniest joke?

Watch some funny shows Can

we make each laugh.

August 31st: La Tomatina (Spain)

Find out what La Tomatina is?

Where is Spain?

Look at different tomatoes; plum, cherry, yellow,

tomberries etc Taste tomatoes

Tomato cooking: Tomato soup, Tomato Tart

Visit Spain to experience La Tomatina Have

a tomato fight as is traditional!