Montessori Nursery

Term topics like “the farm” are a favourite amongst the children. We focus on the following activities:

• Making animal models for the farm
• Sticking and making farm vegetables using a range of materials
• Reading various books: Little Red Hen, Dora’s Chicks, Duck in the truck, Cow takes a bow and many more
• Completing farm animal puzzles
• Farm animal chase using farm animal masks
• Baking Bread
• Matching farm animals with their young ones.
• Exploring playdough with farm animal cutters
• Creating animal footprints
• Creating a mini-farm on a builders tray
• Farm animal hunt
• Making sandwiches using vegetables from the farm
• Baking farm animal biscuits
• Creating a farm animal

• Creating and decorating fans
• Making spin rattle drum
• Creating an ox using different shapes
• Making money envelopes
• Reading a Chinese New Year story

The excitement of Valentine’s Day is contagious. We focus on:

• Exploring red play dough using heart cutters and creating different shapes
• Wooden spoon decorating
• Hand and fingerprinting a Valentine’s tree

• Making green snacks
• Making hats and decorating shamrocks

• Making Daffodils using a range of media

In Autumn the children learn about:
 

• Painting leaf prints
• Creating animals using leaves
• Baking Orange and ginger Autumn cookies
• Reading the story book ‘We’re going on a leaf hunt’
• Exploring the ‘Owl baby’ story
• Autumn tree finger painting

“All About Me” is a topic that focuses on:

• ‘Our family’ drawings
• Creating shape people
• Emotions– Feeling Charts
• Senses:
  • exploring the sensory touchy feely box
  • pizza making
  • smelling various foods/spices, identifying what they are
• Playing ‘Simon Says’
• Using their own footprints to compare with their friends the concept of ‘big and small’

Some of the activities the children have participated in or will partake in…

• Sea Animals hunt
• Sea Creature number search
• Floating and sinking experiment with pebbles, shells, leaves and sea animals
• Messy activities–  blue shaving foam
• Water play with the sea creatures
• Painting a sea world plate
• Creating individual fish tanks
• Junk modelling– creating sea creatures using a range of media and materials
• Music and movement– Moving like sea creatures
• Sea animals Bingo

• Making Easter eggs
• Making Easter hats and baskets
• Experiencing the Easter parade