Week 1: Holiday

Week 2

Arts & Crafts – Class Cook Book

Food Tec – Prepare a cultural dish – Mini boiled dumplings Ackee & Salt fish OR Red Red and fried Plantain

Trip – Jamie’s Kitchen OR Spice Village where we can see the food being prepared

Gardening – Have a look at fresh herbs that are grown in the garden such as mint, thyme, parsley

Maths – Shopping Game

Handwriting – Recipe handwriting sheet

Week 3

Arts & Crafts – Create a family tree paint branches and use green tissue paper for leaves

Food Tec – Cupcake Decorating Create a family tree using cupcakes, icing and treats

Trip – Crystal Palace Park – Spot the various trees

Gardening – Let’s plant a little tree

Maths – Count, how many members are in my immediate family?

Handwriting – Family handwriting sheet

Week 4

Arts & Crafts – All About Me Book (Image, Birthday, Favourite Activities, Favourite colour fingerprints, height and weight).

Food Tec – Portrait Cookies – My face (Bake and decorate cookies with faces)

Trip – Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre

Gardening – I can take care of my own little plant – Plant a pot to take home and watch grow

Maths – Provide items in small and large sizes and then provide 2 boxes one that says Big and one that says SMALL.

Handwriting – My Name Handwriting Sheet

Week 1

Arts & Crafts – Fruit printing using a variety of different coloured paints and fruits

Food Tec – Prepare your own lunch using a variety of pre – prepared/cooked ingredients on the lunch table

Trip – Visit to the local dentist to discuss Dental Hygiene/British Dental Association Museum

Gardening – Look at a mint plant, taste it and discuss all of it’s uses (mint tea, seasoning, toothpaste, gum, candy)

Maths – Take a picture of your mouth wide open and let’s count how many teeth you have

Handwriting – Healthy/Letter H Handwriting Sheet

Music & Dance – Hokey Pokey fresh fruit & veggie

Science – Tricky Taste Buds-fresh fruit and veggie taste test

Tuff Tray – Water, Soap, Scrubber, life size baby doll, rubber ducks, alphabet letters

Week 2

Arts & Crafts – Create your own Valentines Cards

Food Tec – Decorate your own love themed cupcakes and gift box them for your parents

Trip – VUE or Odeon Cinema Date

Gardening – Plant a rose bush

Maths – We all have 1 heart; Count how many times your heart beats in one minute

Handwriting – Love/Letter L Handwriting Sheet

Music & Dance – Skidamarink – I love you

Science – Love potions valentines oil & water

Tuff Tray – Valentines cards, mini chocolates, gifts, roses, Teddy bear, dining out ideas

Week 3:

Arts & Crafts – Decorate a skeleton picture and whilst discussing the various parts of our bodies

Food Tec – Create your own fruit cocktails using a variety of fruit on the table

Trip – Pre – School Yoga Class

Gardening – Look at and discuss some fruit plants & plant care in the garden

Maths – Let’s discuss and count how many Fruit & Veg we should have in a day

Handwriting –Body/Letter B Handwriting sheet

Music & Dance – Zumba kids – I like to move it

Science – Mini Olympics

Tuff Tray – Pancake Day, baking equipment, mini frying pan, pancake food toy, syrup bottle & labels

Week 4: Holiday

*Special Dates*
5th Weather Person Day
6th BoB Marley Birthday
14th Valentines Day
Shrove Tuesday
Chinese New Year

Week 1 SIGHT

Arts & Crafts – Draw a picture of your eyes or colour in an eye picture

Food Tec – Yogurt Shakes (Try different flavours and colours)

Trip – Sightseeing Bus Tour

Gardening – General garden care

Maths – How many coloured objects can you find in the main room? Categorized into groups

Handwriting – Sight/Letter S handwriting sheet

Music & Dance – Kindergarten sight words song and dance video

Science – Blindfold eye spy game 

Tuff Tray – Plastic alphabet letters and handheld children mirrors

Week 2 SMELL

Arts & Crafts – Create Discovery bags

Food Tec – Create your own personal Pizza Discuss tastes and smells

Trip – Pick your own fruit & veg farm

Gardening – General garden care

Maths – Count, we have 1 nose and how many nostrils?

Handwriting – Smell/Letter S handwriting sheet

Music & Dance – Five senses dance song – Happy Kids TV 

Science – What can you smell in the jars activity

Tuff Tray – Herbal tea tray with lukewarm water, tea bags, plastic cups and jugs

Week 3 TOUCH

Arts & Crafts – Create your own t – shirt using different fabrics and materials

Food Tec – Chocolate Cornflakes

Trip – Fabric & Haberdashery Shop

Gardening – General garden care

Maths – Count, how many fingers and hands do you have?

Handwriting – Touch/Letter T Handwriting sheet

Music & Dance – You can’t touch this, but you can dance to it! 

Science – What can you feel in the jar activity

Tuff Tray – Sensory materials/objects 

Week 4 HEARING & TASTE

Arts & Crafts – Create your own musical toys to perform an Easter song together

Food Tec – Hot Cross Buns & Cheese

Trip – The Musical Museum

Gardening – Gift wrap single daffodils to take home

Maths – Easter Egg Hunt – How many eggs can you find?

Handwriting – Easter/Letter E handwriting sheet

Music & Dance – Ears and hearing senses song dance

Science – The five senses for kids/Sight, Taste, Smell, Hearing, Touch Programme 

Tuff Tray – Musical toys 

*Special Days* 
4th World Book Day
7th Miss T’s Birthday
14th Mothers Day
18th Global Recycling Day
19th Red Nose Day 

Week 1: HOLIDAY

Week 2: HOLIDAY

Week 3

Arts & Crafts – Recycling posters

Food Tec – Salmon & veg casserole pie made from leftovers

Trip –  Take unused toys and clothes to local charity shops

Gardening – Use Costa disposable coffee cups to grow Cress and Basil

Maths – Count and identify how many recycling boxes we have and discuss their uses

Handwriting – Recycling/Letter R handwriting sheet

Music & Dance – The recycling song-Sing and dance with Gombby in english

Science – Make recycled paper

Tuff Tray – Croydon recycling centre, Truck, a variety of recycling materials, cardboard labelled trays

Week 4

Arts & Crafts – Environment Posters

Food Tec – Jelly Pots

Trip – Take unused toys and clothes to the local charity shops

Gardening – General garden care

Maths – How many musical instruments do we have in our Music Box?

Handwriting – Environment/Letter E Handwriting Sheet

Music & Dance – Earth were in it together

Science – See how much jugs of water can fill up the jar

Tuff Tray – Plough dough a variety of earth colours

*Special Dates*
2nd Good Friday & World Autism Day
10th Sibling Day
22nd Earth Day

Week 1 (Spring) Wind 

Arts & Crafts – Van Gogh’s Sunflowers – recreate your own Sunflower paintings

Food Tec – Sunshine muffins

Trip – Battersea Park

Gardening – General garden care

Maths – Umbrella number matching

Markmaking – Spring/Letter S

Music & Dance – Springtime Brain Breakdance

Science – Dissect a bean seed

Tuff Tray – Honey Bee mini set up

Week 2 (Summer) Sun 

Arts & Crafts – Lemonade art with lemons and paint

Food Tec – Home made popsicles

Trip – Local Beach

Gardening – General Garden Care

Maths – Sea Shell Sorting

Markmaking – Summer/Letter S

Music & Dance – Kidz Bop Kids Summer (Dance)

Science – Homemade Ice-Cream

Tuff Tray – Sensory Tuff Tray Under the sea theme

Week 3 (Autumn) Rain 

Arts & Crafts – Make Glittery Pine cones

Food Tec – Apple Salad

Trip – Kite Flying at Crystal Palace Park

Gardening – General garden care

Maths –

Markmaking – Autumn/Lettet A

Music & Dance – Autumn dance of the leaves

Science – Fall sink or float-predict what fall items will sink or float then experiment

Tuff Tray – Twigs, acorns, pine cones, conkers and different colour leaves

Week 4: (Winter) 

Arts & Crafts – Snowman winter craft

Food Tec – Rice crispy icicle snow ball treats

Trip – Puddle jumping in the park

Gardening – General garden care

Maths – Count how many marshmallows are in the hot chocolate

Markmaking – Winter/Letter W

Music & Dance – Winter Hokey Pokey

Science – Ice fishing

Tuff Tray – Icy Tuff tray, animals, foil, icicle shapes

*Special Dates*
1st May Day
3rd Laughter Day
3rd-9th National sun awareness week
16th National Childrens Day
17th-21st Walk to school week

Week 2 – Doctors, Nurses and Ambulance Drivers
Arts & Crafts – Make a stethoscope
Food Tec – Hospital Meals – Cheese & Tomato Sandwiches & Lemon Water
Trip – Trip to local Doctors Surgery
Gardening – General garden care
Maths – Count how many sick people can you see in the room?
Handwriting – Nurse/Letter N handwriting sheet
Music & Dance – Dr Knickerbocker Action Song For Children
Science – Covid – 19 Germs experiment for kids
Tuff Tray – Dolly, doctors play kit, doctors notes

Week 3 – Teachers & Librarians
Arts & Crafts – Teacher Portrait
Food Tec – Make a book out of a sandwich
Trip – Local Library
Gardening – General garden care
Maths – Number match in a tray of rice
Handwriting – Librarian/Letter L handwriting sheet
Music & Dance – Going to the library song dance
Science – Salt, Sugar or Hot Water – Which one melts ice faster?
Tuff Tray – Word play sensory tuff tray, coloured rice, alphabet letters, bowls, words, small word cut outs in bowls.

Week 4 – Grocers, Builders, Hairdressers
Arts & Crafts – Food Collage
Food Tec – Veggies & Dip
Trip – Small grocery store (Peckham market)
Gardening – General garden care
Maths – Coin sorting
Handwriting – Grocery/Letter G handwriting sheet
Music & Dance – Shopping at the grocery store freestyle
Science – Measure veggies experiment
Tuff Tray – Supermarket tuff tray role play essentials

*Special Days*
1st International Childrens Day
4th National Fish & Chip Day
5-6th The Big Lunch
8th National Best Friends Day

Arts & Crafts – Egg carton trains

Food Tec – Chocolate moulded trains

Trip – Local train depot

Gardening – General garden care

Maths – Photo Study – How many trains on the track

Handwriting – Train/Letter T handwriting sheet

Music & Dance – Choo Choo Train Dance Along

Science – How to make a steam engine out of a tin can

Tuff Tray – Train track & trains

Week 2 Cars

Arts & Crafts – Paper Mache Car wheel

Food Tec – Car shaped biscuits

Trip – Local car wash

Gardening – General garden care

Maths – Count the cars in the neighbourhood

Handwriting – Car/Letter C handwriting sheet

Music & Dance – Zeek & friends shake it

Science – Exploring ramps and friction with cars

Tuff Tray – Sensory Car environment, cars, soil, house, roads, aeroplanes

Week 3 Aeroplanes

Arts & Crafts – Paper aeroplanes

Food Tec – Aeroplane shaped biscuits

Trip – Heathrow Airport

Gardening – General garden care

Maths – Count the number of aeroplanes that you can see in the sky in 15 minutes

Handwriting – Aeroplane/Letter A handwriting sheet

Music & Dance – The transportation song/Train Bus Boat & Car

Science – Stem paper aeroplane challenge 

Tuff Tray – Aeroplanes, blue paper shredded, cotton wool

Week 4: Holiday

*Special Days*

1st International Joke Day

3rd International plastic bag free day

16th Big Butterfly Count

Helping very young children see the connections to farmers producing food that is healthy for us to eat. 

WEEK 1 Farm Favourites

Arts & Crafts – Let’s chart our favourite farm animals.

Food Tec – Let’s chop, choose and discuss what different farm foods we like.

Trip – Deen City Farm.

Gardening – General Garden Care.

Maths – Charting your favourite farm animals pt.2 Count & Tally.

Handwriting – Farm/Letter F Handwriting practice.

Music & Dance – Just Dance Kids!

Science – Smelly Game! Let’s guess what each jar smells of.

Tuff Tray – Artificial grass, plastic animals and number cards.

WEEK 2 The Farmers

Arts & Crafts – Decorate a pair of Wellington Boots.

Food Tec – Let’s make Fruit Salad.

Trip – Sutton Community Farm.

Gardening – General Garden Care.

Maths – Let’s count how many Wellington Boots make a pair.

Handwriting – Books/Letter B handwriting practice.

Music & Dance – Just Dance Kids! 

Science – Let’s learn how to milk a cow using latex gloves and milk.

Tuff tray – Sensory Farm Tuff Tray using weetabix, oats, soil, plastic farm animals, paper, rubber ducks and wooden bricks.

WEEK 3 Food from the farm

Arts & Crafts – Corn on the cob painting.

Food Tec – Friendship Soup.

Trip – Franklins Farm Shop.

Gardening – General Garden Care.

Maths – Let’s discuss how many different ingredients we used to make friendship soup.

Handwriting – Friendship/Letter F handwriting practice.

Music & Dance – Just Dance Kids! 

Science – Show & Tell Discussion about all the different things that are made from corn such as cornmeal, popcorn etc.

Tuff Tray – Play Mobil food truck and people, soil, farm animals and real labelled food.

WEEK 4 Life on the farm

Arts & Crafts – Let’s create pre cut muddy pig pictures using paints and soil.

Food Tec – Let’s bake our own bread.

Trip – Vauxhall City Farm

Gardening – General Garden Care

Maths – Let’s count how many different farm animals there are in our farm photo.

Handwriting – Life/Letter P handwriting practice.

Music & Dance – Just Dance Kids!

Science – Grow some grass in an aquarium or pot.

Tuff Tray – Play Mobil food truck and people, soil, real labelled food.

*Special Days* 

13th – Roald Dahl Day

16th – Play dough Day 

22nd – Autumn Equinox/Harvest Festival

In celebration of Black History Month, the children will be learning about the accomplishments of so many African-Americans.

WEEK 1 Usain Bolt is a Jamaican former sprinter, widely considered to be the greatest of all time and is the highest paid in field and track.

Arts & Crafts – Colour in pictures of Usian Bolt.

Food Tec – Let’s Make Pasta & Broccoli, some of Usian’s favourite foods.

Trip – Usian Bolts Tracks n Records.

Gardening – Grow plants starting with seeds and chart their growth via journels, pictures and drawing.

Maths -Time Game.

Handwriting -Time/Letter T Handwriting Practice.

Music & Dance – Bilingual Afro-Caribbean dance class for kids.

Science – I can label my body cut and paste worksheet.

Tuff Tray – Medal, Trainers, Photos of running tracks & Usian Bolt, A Clock/Timer, Pasta Pieces, Plastic Toy Plate with a knife and fork.

Maths – Let’s count our cooking equipment in the kitchen.

WEEK 2 RUFUS ESTES’ was the first African-American chef to write a cookbook (Good things to eat). This book invites us to imagine a world in which Black people could enjoy the pleasures of food and service.

Arts & Crafts – Colour in pictures of Rufus Estes.

Food Tec – Story Telling, Food Tec & Lunch By Marilyn Attah, author of (Nii’s Tales Mumas Pepper Soup).

Trip – 805 Restaurant. 

Maths – Let’s count our cooking equipment.

Handwriting – Cook/Letter C Handwriting Practice.

Music & Dance – African Dancing.

Science – A basket of food science experiment

Tuff Tray – Different Cook books, Picture of Rufus Estes, Small cooking pan, Chef hat, Apron, Cooking Utensils.

Week 3 Rosa Parks Stood up against legally enforced segregation “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”

Arts & Crafts – Colour in sheets of Rosa Parks

Food Tec – Make bus shaped biscuits and decorate them

Trip – Museum Of London. London, Sugar & Slavery

Gardening – General garden care

Maths – Study Photo – Count the differences between the people on the bus

Handwriting – Bus handwriting sheet

Music & Dance – Street Dance for kids.

Science – Let’s mix and create different colour races using paint.

Tuff Tray – Pictures of Rosa Park, Big red Bus Toy, small world wooden people.

Week 4: Holiday

*Special Days* 

ADHD Awareness Month

5th of October – World Teacher Day

Arts & Crafts – Using pre – cut pics, create a healthy food basket for grandma

Food Tec – Create your own healthy food basket using items on the lunch table

Trip – Epping Forest

Gardening – General garden care

Maths – How many apples in the basket

Handwriting – Fairytale handwriting sheet

Week 2 Goldilocks & The Three Bears

Arts & Crafts – Goldilocks & the three bears masks

Food Tec – Porridge

Trip – Teddy Bears Picnic at Westow Park

Gardening – General Garden care

Maths – How many bears are there?

Handwriting – Fairytale handwriting sheet

Week 3 Jack and the beanstalk

Arts & Crafts – Bean mosaic

Food Tec – Bean Curry

Trip – Theatre

Gardening – General Garden Care

Maths – Bean Counting

Handwriting – Fairytale handwriting sheet

Week 4 Three Billy Goats Gruff

Arts & Crafts – Troll masks

Food Tec – Mini goat’s biscuits

Trip – Theatre

Gardening – General garden Care

Maths – Playdough Trolls

Handwriting – Fairy – tale handwriting sheet

Arts & Crafts – Christmas Cards

Food Tec – Chocolate logs

Trip – Polka Theatre

Gardening – Shop for a Christmas Tree

Maths – Count How many logs can you see on the Christmas Card?

Handwriting – Festive Handwriting Sheet

Week 2

Arts & Crafts – Christmas Frames

Food Tec – Mince Pies

Trip – Winter Wonderland

Gardening – Plant care in the garden

Maths – Look How many gnomes in the garden?

Handwriting – Christmas Handwriting Sheet

Week 3

Arts & Crafts

Food Tec

Trip

Gardening

Maths

Handwriting

Week 4: Holiday