Author: shona90

Everyone loves a day at the Farm, getting to see all the animals and tractors. The Farm is also a theme I could see being easily transferred to a nursery or infant setting as a longer topic. We had great fun with this theme and had we not been in complete lockdown (2020) we would… Continue reading On the Farm

During the course of lockdown (2020) we enjoyed lots of long walks around our surrounding areas and made games of how many birds we could spot. Robbie loved this and became very interested in birds, so I decided to do a bird theme for him. Again this could be adapted and added to for older… Continue reading Birds

This topic is close to our hearts. My wee guy is totally in love with caterpillars and butterflies. He sees them everywhere and in everything, so it was only right that we had a focus on them. You could expand this to a more general animal lifecycle theme and include animals such as frogs. Below… Continue reading Butterflies and Caterpillars

There are so many interesting things to learn about jungles and the animals and plants that live there. My boy was showing real interest in different exotic animals so this was a perfect theme to focus on this a little. The Jungle is another theme that could easily be transferred to a school or nursery… Continue reading The Jungle

Pirates is a theme close to my heart. I have great memories as a kid of dressing up as pirates with my brother and having such a laugh during our imaginative play games. This is another topic that could be adapted and built upon to be used within a nursery or primary school setting, even… Continue reading Pirates

A dinosaur topic always gets children engaged because there are so many different things to discover. This is a theme that we will definitely revisit again. The image below is a mind map I used to plan our week along with extra activities I came up with later on. I will detail each activity and… Continue reading Dinosaurs

As a family, we like Sci-fi films and Starwars is right up there. This theme came about as my Sister-in-law pointed out Starwars day (4th May) during this week. A Starwars theme could be adapted to suit a wide range of ages and could be incorporated into a Space theme too. As Robbie gets older… Continue reading Starwars

We thought it would be interesting for Robbie to learn a little bit about the other countries within the UK. He chose Wales, to start with when he was given the choice. This was a really fun theme and definitely one we will revisit and expand on. I have added my planning mind map underneath… Continue reading Wales

We decided to have a focus on Ireland as my husband is from Northern Ireland and a lot of our family live there, so it is somewhere we visit regularly (out-with global pandemics). It was lovely to be able to show Robbie some interesting information and customs associated with such an important part of who… Continue reading Ireland

As lockdown (2020) and shielding were easing and we were able to start seeing family again I thought that a focus on our family was a good theme. We kept in touch with grandparents, siblings, cousins etc. as much as possible through video chatting and messaging, however, Robbie was always enthusiastic to talk about his… Continue reading My Family