Nursery Rhymes is a two week topic suitable for any time of the year.
All the rhymes included in the plans are followed up by interesting practical activities. For example “Humpty Dumpty” is a prompt for exploring materials and making walls, “Little Miss Muffet” is a stimulus for making sweet spiders, and of course there has to be planting the pips from pears, making a collection of tea pots in the role play area, making cakes with dough and making a pie as in “Sing a Song of Sixpence”.
Counting activities are always part of the planning. In the first week the children search for and count lost sheep, and make a sheep number line. In week two they cut out pictures of sheep to make sets for Bo Peep. There are colourful and simple counting sheets accompanying many of the activities.
As with all the disks, each week of the Nursery Rhymes theme focuses on one letter and its sound. The letters on this disk are R and T. The emphasis with these two activities is on developing hand eye co-ordination and using tools. There are many suggestions to encourage mark making skills and pencil control, and activities which challenge older children to use more unusual one-handed tools.
