Taw Pre-School Autumn Term 2025

26.09.25

Our topic this week is ‘Harvest’. This week we have read books about farming, harvest, fruits and vegetables. The children learnt new harvest songs such as, ‘Big Red Combine Harvester’. We talked about why and how people celebrate harvest.

Books we have read:

• The scarecrows wedding
• Supertato
• What the ladybird heard
• The little red hen
• A squash and a squeeze

Activities/provision this week:

• Small world farm – The children played with the farmyard, tractor, trailers and farm animals.
• Farm playdough – The children made prints in brown playdough using toy farm animals. They also used farmyard animal footprint stones.
• Scarecrow craft – Cutting and sticking together different parts of a scarecrow on paper. Adding autumn themed craft paper.
• Vegetable printing – The children put cut up vegetables into paint and then printed them onto paper.
• Sorting fruit and vegetables – We sorted vegetables and fruits into two groups, labelling as we sorted.
• Fruit and vegetable shop – The children played in our fruit and vegetable role play shop. They explored real vegetables when pretending to work in the shop.
• Baking bread – We read ‘The little red hen’ and then baked bread. The children worked together to follow the recipe and make bread to take home.
• Harvesting apples – We went apple picking in the school orchard with the children. We then put the apples in the water tray and rolled them.
• Corn rolling – The children rolled corn onto paint and then onto paper.

Phonics: Instrumental sounds

This term our phonics focus is instrumental sounds! We will be experimenting playing with a variety of instruments. We will practice playing the instruments loud, quiet, fast, slow etc.

Maths: Comparing quantities

Learning mathematical language - ‘more, less, most, least, fewer’. We compared quantities using counting bears and numicon. We decided which bear had the most or least biscuits.

Next week the topic is: Harvest

Important information

• Please can the children bring in any books from home about farms.
• Send in any WOW moments for the children or photos of experiences to
  pre-school@bishopstawton-primary.org.

19.09.25

Our topic this week is ‘All about me!’. This week we have read books about the body and our senses. The children learnt a new song called ‘parts of the body’  by ‘Caitie’s Classroom’.  

Activities/provision this week:

• We drew around one of the children on a large piece of paper. The children then labelled the different parts of the body by placing pictures on the outline e.g. hands, eyes, mouth, feet.
• ‘How tall am I?’ activity – We measured the children using string and the chalk board. We compared the children’s heights using mathematical language e.g. tall, short.
• Colour mixing – We read ‘Mix it up’ and then the children experimented with colour mixing. The children painted each of their hands a different colour then mixed them together to make a new one. They printed their hands onto paper.
• Colour monster activity – We drew the ‘mixed up’ colour monster onto a large tuff tray and filled it with different coloured pom poms. The children helped the colour monster by sorting the pom poms into groups. The children used tweezers to sort the pom poms and match them to the monster of the matching colour.
• We read stories about our senses – smell, taste, smell, touch.

Phonics: Instrumental sounds

This term our phonics focus is instrumental sounds! We will be experimenting playing with a variety of instruments. We will practice playing the instruments loud, quiet, fast, slow etc.

Maths: Sorting

We have been learning to sort objects into different groups and describe them e.g. sort by shape, colour or size.

Next week the topic is: Harvest

Important information

• Please can the children bring in any books from home about farms.
• Send in any WOW moments for the children or photos of experiences to
  pre-school@bishopstawton-primary.org.