🌼 Nursery – Spring Topic: How do things change?

This half term, our Nursery children will be exploring the exciting theme “How do things change?” 🌱✨
The topic sheet below gives full details of what we will be learning across the Early Years curriculum.

🗣️ Communication & Language / Literacy

• Our key text this half term is The Very Hungry Caterpillar 🐛🍎.
• Children will retell the story using puppets, pictures and simple story language.
• We will also read non‑fiction books 📚 to help us learn about Spring and how things grow and change.
• We continue to focus on early phonics skills such as hearing sounds in words 👂, blending, and learning key words.
• Children will keep practising writing their names ✍️ and begin forming simple words.

🔢 Mathematics

• In Maths, we will build mathematical vocabulary through our Garden Centre role‑play area 🌼🛒, using language linked to money, time and weight.
• We will explore the topics Growing 6, 7, 8 and Building 9 & 10, practising number composition to 10 🔟 and beginning to learn number bonds.
• Children will also explore and name a range of 3D shapes 🟦🔺🟫.

🌍 Understanding the World

• Children will observe the signs of Spring 🌸 and investigate how plants and animals change.
• We will learn the parts of a plant 🌿 and do planting activities outdoors.
• We will explore Easter traditions ✝️🐣 and learn how Christians celebrate today.
• Through cooking activities such as making pancakes and Easter nests 🥞🍫, children will explore how materials change.
• We will also compare seasons and climates ☀️❄️ and use technology such as iPads and computers 💻📱.

🏃 Physical Development

• Children will develop ball skills including throwing, catching and kicking ⚽.
• They will explore moving in different ways and learn how to look after their bodies through healthy eating 🍎, sleep 😴 and hygiene 🧼.
• We will also continue to strengthen scissor skills ✂️.
• Nursery PE Day: Thursday 📅

• We will encourage independence skills such as fastening coats and managing self‑help tasks 🧥👍.
• Our Jigsaw topic is Healthy Me, where children learn about their bodies, staying healthy, and the importance of sleep and handwashing 🛌🧽.
• We will also discuss stranger danger 🚫, Mother’s Day 💐 and Easter traditions 🐣.

• Children will use their imagination through stories and role‑play in the home corner and garden centre 🎭.
• We will enjoy singing favourite nursery rhymes 🎶 and creating artwork linked to Spring and Easter 🌼🐰.
• Children will explore different media and materials, including designing cards for Mother’s Day and Easter 💌 and building box models using a range of joining techniques 🧰.