Ernesettle Community School Curriculum Map – 2 Year Old Nursery Autumn – Term 1 THEME Week 1&2

All About Me

Week 3&4

Being Healthy

Week 5&6

People Who Help Us

Week 7

Festival of Lights

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Activities/ideas Family (extended) What I/you look like Where I live: house/flat/caravan Pets Things that are important My favourite make handprints using paint Puzzle face Silly/laminate faces Eatwell plate Water Too much, too little, just right! Sleep Washing/ Keeping clean Looking after your teeth Exercise Firemen/women Police Lolly pop lady/man Nurse/Doctor/Ambulance

Role-play Home corner

Book Owl Babies by Martin Waddell

Fruit & Veg Shop

Dinnertime Rhyme by June Crebbin The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Hospital

Helpful Henry Get Well Soon

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Diwali Rangoli patterns Rama and Sita Burfi sweets Dark Den: Use torches in role-play area. Black out classroom? Clay Diya pots Diwali dancing

Indian Restaurant

The Story of Rama and Sita

Ernesettle Community School Curriculum Map – 2 Year Old Nursery Autumn – Term 2 THEME Week 1&2

Whizz, Pop, Bang!

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Activities/ideas Guy Fawkes Night Remember, remember the 5th of November, the Gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. Firework paintings – salad spinners? Messy play: Milk, food colouring and cotton buds soaked in cooking oil

Role-play Police Station

Book Police Officers on Patrol/ The Fabulous Firework Family

Week 3&4

Africa

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Tinga Tinga Tales African music Maize Fufu Batik Ghana Nursery Rhymes (International School Award)

Safari Lodge

Tinga Tinga Tales Handa’s Surprise

Week 5&6

Merry Christmas

The Night Before Christmas

Hanukkah

Christmas Snowmen Holly Mince pies Snow Wrapping presents Nativity scene and story Carol concert Hanukkah Candle Star of David Menorah Driedel Festival of Lights Giving to the poor

Nativity

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Nativity

The Hanukkah Rescue

Ernesettle Community School Curriculum Map – 2 Year Old Nursery Spring – Term 3 THEME Week 1&2

Let’s Dance to the Beat

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Activities/ideas Musical instruments Body percussion Sticks/beaters and outdoors Listening to different types of music Making and performing our own beats Dance (different styles/cultures)

Role-play Home Corner

Book Angelina Ballerina Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Week 3&4

Monsters

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Dinosaurs Loch Ness (Burn’s night) Monster Mash

Jungle Den

Calm Down Boris! Where the Wild Things Are.

Week 5&6

Chinese New Year

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Chinese New Year Chopsticks Red envelopes World Book Day Valentine’s Day

Chinese Restaurant

Dragon Dance: A CNY Lift the Flap book by Joan Holub

Ernesettle Community School Curriculum Map – 2 Year Old Nursery Spring – Term 4 Week 1&2

The Feel Good Factor

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Activities/ideas Different sports/dance Fruit and vegetables Sleep Cleaning/washing Teeth – dentist Health Visitor

Role-play Dentists

Book I Want My Tooth!

Week 3&4

I love my Mum

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Mother’s Day Making Mother’s Day cards St Patrick’s Day

Baby Clinic

Me and my Mum : A book to Share

Week 5

Easter

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Easter Making eggs Chocolate nests

Working Farm

The Little Red Hen

Ernesettle Community School Curriculum Map – 2 Year Old Nursery Summer – Term 5 Week 1&2

The Great British Isles

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Activities/ideas The Queen’s Birthday St George’s Day Making scones

Role-play Home Corner

Book Postman Bear by Julia Donaldson

Week 3&4

Hooray! Spring is here!

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Beltane (Gaelic May Day Fire Festival) May Pole Dancing Hop like a rabbit, flap like a bird

Camp

Springtime Fox

Week 5&6

Down at the bottom of the garden…

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Plant Sunflower seeds Mud messy play

Garden Centre

Ladybug on the Move by Richard Fowler

Ernesettle Community School Curriculum Map – 2 Year Old Nursery Summer – Term 6 THEME

Activities/ideas

Role-play Clothes Shop

Book Sweet Dates to Eat by Jonny Zucker Ramadan Moon by Na’ima Bint Robert

Toby’s travelling circus Face painting clowns Circus Spectacular Stick Ribbons Bright colours, stripes, clowns, cream pies, tickets, long shoes, acrobat equipment, soft play, giant wooden blocks, gym mats, balls, hoops

Big Top

If I Ran the Circus by Dr. Seuss You See a Circus I See… by Mike Downs

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Sand play – Making sandcastles Rock pooling Father’s Day Making ice creams

Seafront

Sally and the Limpet by Simon James My Dad by Anthony Browne

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Sunflowers/Cress

Home Corner

Zaza’s Baby Brother

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Tadpole/butterfly cycle Our bodies getting bigger

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Transitions New and old

Week 1

Ramadan

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Ramadan Summer Henna hands Dates Being hungry

Week 2 &3

At the Circus

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Week 4&5

At the Beach

Week 6&7

Getting Bigger!