Winter

Personal Social and Emotional

Discuss Winter including objects, weather, environments and activities. Discuss what to eat during winter eg. hot chocolate, warm food. Talk about ice cubes and how hot water bottles keep us warm.  How does being hot or cold make you feel.

Communication Language and Literacy

Discuss Winter activities such as the ice rink or sledding. Look at Winter themed books including weather, clothing, and types of foods for example, The Snowman or The Snow Queen.

Physical Development

Discuss the appropriate Winter clothing such as coats, hats and gloves. Play a winter dressing up race to see who can dress themselves in hats, coats, gloves and scarves fastest for a wintry day and discuss the importance of this.

Mathematics

Discuss how ice can form into different shapes, eg different shaped ice cubes. Discuss the readings on the thermometers and what that means for our safety e.g. when to be careful of icy paths.

Understanding the World

Discuss the safety involved when walking on an icy road. Discuss how animals cope with the cold during winter. Go for a walk to listen to the frosty grass and see what the environment looks like, e.g. trees, grass. Look for winter colours.

Expressive Art and Design

Go and explore the environment and see if we can make footprints in the frost/snow = replicate inside with paint, use wellies to stand in paint and walk across paper..  Collect sticks to make pictures.

Activities : Add colouring to ice cubes and see how it melts
                   Make a snowman out of cotton wool or muffin cases
                   Make snowflake biscuits with edible glitter
                   Make your own paper snowflakes
         

Focused Vocabulary

Winter, cold, freezing, coats, boots, hats, gloves, scarves, ice, snow, snowman, keeping warm.