A comprehensive Nursery weekly lesson plan for Week 12 themed around Balls. Children explore gravity, rolling movement, materials, and games, revise letters Gg, Hh, and Ii, and practice splatter art.
What children learn
- Observe that balls fall when thrown upward and can roll from one place to another.
- Compare balls by size, material, and suitability for different games.
- Explore how ramps and other structures affect a ball's movement.
- Revisit letters Aa-Ii, big and small, and one-to-one correspondence.
Key activities
- Dropping and throwing balls to observe upward and downward movement
- Rolling different balls and comparing how they move
- Deciding whether different balls suit games such as cricket or football
- Making balls from newspaper, fabric, dough, clay, and cotton
- Building a ramp-based ball game from tubes and recycled materials
You’ll need
paper, rubber and plastic balls, marbles and table-tennis balls, newspapers and fabric strips, dough and clay, cotton and yarn, cardboard tubes and sticks, tape and chalk, large dice, letter cards and loose parts
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy