January planning sorted!

**sarah707** · 04-01-2009, 06:58 PM

what do you think?

Week 1 - Louis Braille's birthday... lots of sensory activities, which will suit my mindees as they are both sensory learners;

Week 2 - Pongal ... yellow is the colour of Pongal, plus we will make & eat some Indian food; if I feel inspired we can make some playdough with Indian spices;

Week 3 - Chinese New Year ... we will celebrate a week early and visit China Town; lots of Chinese activities;

Week 4 - Australia Day ... have an indoor barbie; Aussie animals; sun activites to cheer us up;

Running through the month... winter / penguins / snowy weather etc and following children's interests.

I'm planning to continuous provision this month to see how it goes, so each week I am looking at...

Book of the week; construction toys; cooking; games / puzzles; garden; ICT; malleable / messy etc...

Job done... I hope!

**Monkey1** · 04-01-2009, 07:00 PM

Gosh Sarah, can i come to play! Can you buy loads of chinese decorations in china town or is it mostly restaurants etc?

**Polly2** · 04-01-2009, 07:00 PM

Sounds fab Sarah

**marion123** · 04-01-2009, 07:03 PM

it looks great

**patevans** · 04-01-2009, 07:08 PM

Why cant I make it that easy??

You are fab

**sarah707** · 04-01-2009, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by Monkey1

Gosh Sarah, can i come to play! Can you buy loads of chinese decorations in china town or is it mostly restaurants etc?

There are lots of shops in Manc China Town which sell things like red money envelopes, calendars, dragons on sticks, Buddhas (I got a lovely little one last year)... plus you can pick up free newspapers on some of the doorsteps to shops.

Then we can go into the Chinese supermarket and look at the woks, treat ourselves to some new little dishes for the role play box and buy some noodles for our tea.

I'm excited already!

**Monkey1** · 04-01-2009, 07:12 PM

When i come up for the exhibition do you think i could get chance to pop in or is it all compleatly different areas? Any chance you could pick up a paper for me too please??????

I can get it when we meet for the zoo!

**Chatterbox Childcare** · 04-01-2009, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by sarah707

what do you think?

Week 1 - Louis Braille's birthday... lots of sensory activities, which will suit my mindees as they are both sensory learners;

Week 2 - Pongal ... yellow is the colour of Pongal, plus we will make & eat some Indian food; if I feel inspired we can make some playdough with Indian spices;

Week 3 - Chinese New Year ... we will celebrate a week early and visit China Town; lots of Chinese activities;

Week 4 - Australia Day ... have an indoor barbie; Aussie animals; sun activites to cheer us up;

Running through the month... winter / penguins / snowy weather etc and following children's interests.

I'm planning to continuous provision this month to see how it goes, so each week I am looking at...

Book of the week; construction toys; cooking; games / puzzles; garden; ICT; malleable / messy etc...

Job done... I hope!

Hope that is a BBQ with food and not the plastic type!!

Sounds great - get the snaggers on!

**sarah707** · 04-01-2009, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by DebbieS26

Hope that is a BBQ with food and not the plastic type!!

Sounds great - get the snaggers on!

Go on then Debbie, enlighten me... what are snaggers?

**MrsT333** · 04-01-2009, 08:37 PM

wow that looks amazing!!!

how do you make it look so easy?

**Monkey1** · 04-01-2009, 08:52 PM

i presume they are sausages

**Tily Bud** · 04-01-2009, 10:27 PM

Wow Sarah, where do you find the time to do all those activities Im lucky if we fit a couple in a week !

We go to playgroup 2 mornings, family storysack building 1 morning a week, either i visit H or she visits me 1 day and then that just leaves 1 morning and by then the children just want to lead the way

Afternoons all the children sleep, then after school its lots of structured freplay whilst i sort out tea and try to talk to everyone about their day - all at once lol x

Im doing monthly themes, a group weekly plan ( includes playgroup etc ) and individual monthly plans baised on obs x

**Trouble** · 04-01-2009, 10:47 PM

i bought some paper lanterns (lamp shade the paper ones ) out of asda for 1.50 each and im going to get the kids to decorate then and make tastles for the bottom

worth another thought

**Mags** · 04-01-2009, 11:03 PM

Wow i'm impressed it sounds brilliant and i'm sure you'll have loads of fun.

If only i could find it all that easy to do, must admit i do find it a bit of a struggle but i have planned for this month, not completely sure i've got it right but hey i'm just going to plod on with it and see where it takes me, lol.

**Monkey1** · 05-01-2009, 05:03 AM

Originally Posted by rascal

i bought some paper lanterns (lamp shade the paper ones ) out of asda for 1.50 each and im going to get the kids to decorate then and make tastles for the bottom

worth another thought

I got some from ikea!

we made paper ones last year, will try and look for the photo

**Chatterbox Childcare** · 05-01-2009, 06:04 AM

Originally Posted by sarah707

Go on then Debbie, enlighten me... what are snaggers?

Snaggers are sausages

**miffy** · 05-01-2009, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by sarah707

what do you think?

Week 1 - Louis Braille's birthday... lots of sensory activities, which will suit my mindees as they are both sensory learners;

Week 2 - Pongal ... yellow is the colour of Pongal, plus we will make & eat some Indian food; if I feel inspired we can make some playdough with Indian spices;

Week 3 - Chinese New Year ... we will celebrate a week early and visit China Town; lots of Chinese activities;

Week 4 - Australia Day ... have an indoor barbie; Aussie animals; sun activites to cheer us up;

Running through the month... winter / penguins / snowy weather etc and following children's interests.

I'm planning to continuous provision this month to see how it goes, so each week I am looking at...

Book of the week; construction toys; cooking; games / puzzles; garden; ICT; malleable / messy etc...

Job done... I hope!

You are going to be sooooo busy!!!!

I don't think I'd have time to fit all that in

Miffy xx

**LittleMissSparkles** · 05-01-2009, 09:39 AM

I feel sooo inadequate now seeing what you have planned

x

**katickles** · 05-01-2009, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by LittleMissSparkles

I feel sooo inadequate now seeing what you have planned

x

And me

I honestly don't know how on earth you manage all that. I wish i could get half of what you have planned done but even then i know its never going to happen!!

I love your ideas though - you really are a star!