Active Learning
- What can you see in winter?
- Winter senses
- Winter page
- More winter pages
Explore the signs of winter by sharing The Bear's Winter House, What Can you See in Winter and The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark. Enjoy a winter walk and have fun creating captions for photos, as well as writing instructions for a pyjama party.
Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: I Made a Little Snowball and Here We Go Round (see resources)
Introduce on Monday (send a copy home). Rehearse and chant during week, waiting to go to lunch, on carpet, for fun! Develop performance and add actions.
Essential texts
What Can You See in Winter by Sian Smith
The Bear’s Winter House by John Yeoman
Websites
Winter from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Animation about icicles and being cold from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Resources
Photos from winter walk
Winter clothes, fairy lights, twigs, buttons
Floating/sinking objects for water tray
Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Twinkle Twinkle & Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear (see resources)
Introduce on Monday (send a copy home). Rehearse and chant during week, waiting to go to lunch, on carpet, for fun! Develop performance and add actions.
Essential text
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson
Resources
Books about winter
Pictures of the night sky, dark paper, foil
Facility to freeze small toys in ice, food colouring
Dark fabric/blackout tent, fairy lights, torches, mirrors
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