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Pre-Nursery Week Beginning: 10th March 2025

Our Topic

Under The Sea

Hello Song

Goodbye Song

Clean Up Song

Days of the Week Song

Core Story: Hooray For Fish

Core Song: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I Caught a Fish Alive

Octopus Background Music

Under the Sea Song Slide

steam week

What is STEAM?

STEAM stands for:

S-Science

T-Technology

E-Engineering

A-Art

M-Mathematics

Activities

This week we will continue to learn about 'Under the Sea' but will have a spread of STEAM challenges throughout the week that will follow these whole school themes:

Monday-Love Nature

Tuesday-Clean Our Seas

Wednesday-Healthy Eating

Thursday-Dress-up Day

'Maths' Monday

Morning Meet

Who can remember what we are learning about...that’s right ‘Under the Sea’ Let’s sing our slippery fish song together!

Slippery Fish-Sing

Slippery Fish-Watch

I do Love looking at all the different sea creatures we find in nature!

Mmmm who was the second sea creature that we met in the song...an octopus! This week we are going to be learning all about the octopus.

First, let's take a look at some real octopus in this video. Can you see how they move? What about the colours that you saw, did you see it change colours?

Look at the picture above and lets count how many legs the octopus has!

Now let’s look at the Makaton for Octopus.

Activity

Activity 1: MATHS: Look at what the teachers have cut out of paper...a GIANT octopus!

Mmmm but we need to add some suckers, let's go and find our Duplo blocks and make some stamps like in this picture.

How many legs does our octopus have? Let's count them together...8!

Let's be Teamwork Tigers and work together to give this octopus some suckers.

Activity 2: ENGINEERING: Can you help our octopus by building them shelters? On our light table we have magnetic tiles. Can you make an enclosure using the shapes provided?

'Topic' Tuesday

Morning Meet

Who can remember which sea creature we are learning about this week? That's right, an octopus!

Let’s create the sounds of the sea. Come and choose an instrument from the basket to explore and play along with The Octopus song.

Can you shake or tap your instrument to the beat of the song?

Now for the next challenge, this time when I play the song you need to play your instruments but when I stop the music you need to stop playing your instruments so don't forget those listening ears!

Gosh, great work! Now let's explore our Octopus book.

How many different Makaton signs do you know for things under the sea?

Makaton Signs

Activity

Activity 1: MATHS: Yesterday we made one GIANT octopus together and used BIG Duplo blocks to print on the suckers.

Today we are going to make little octopus' using lego blocks. Can you find a lego block with 8 circles on? Now your teacher has already cut out a simple octopus on paper for you to add the suckers onto, what colour paint will you use to print your suckers on with?

Activity 2: SCIENCE: Oh no, look at our water tray, all the poor octopuses are having to swim in the water but the water has lots of plastic rubbish inside! Can you help us to clean the sea by using the scoops to scoop out all the plastic rubbish...but be careful not to catch an octopus.

'Wow!' Wednesday

Morning Meet

Who can remember which sea creature we are learning about this week? That's right, an octopus! Let's get our bodies moving and stand up and sing this fun octopus action song:

Octopus Song-Watch

Octopus Song-Dance

Wasn’t that fun getting our bodies moving. It is always important to move our bodies as this helps us to stay healthy. I wonder what else we can do to stay healthy…we can eat healthy foods!

Who would like to come and choose a food to feed our octopus…if it is a healthy food the octopus will smile but if it is unhealthy the poor octopus will have a sad face.

Activity

Activity 1: TECHNOLOGY: Can you help your teachers play this fun game and see if you can spot all the healthy foods.

Healthy Food Game

Activity 2: ART: Let’s work as a team to create a giant octopus art collage together using paint and stickers for suckers…what amazing artists we are.