A Nursery weekly lesson plan focused on Sounds, exploring how sounds influence feelings, sources of sounds, sound travel, and communication, along with tracing letter Rr, counting and writing number 6, and polka dot printing.
What children learn
- Describe how different sounds can influence feelings.
- Identify sources of sounds and compare sounds made by everyday objects.
- Explore how sound travels and how sounds communicate information.
- Recognise and write Rr, count 26-30, and understand the symbol and value of number 6.
Key activities
- Listening to sound cards and drawing how selected sounds feel
- Identifying hidden or recorded sounds and naming their sources
- Experimenting with spoons, keys, boxes, pencils, coins, and water to make sounds
- Exploring sound movement with a balloon, string, and paper
- Matching communicative sounds with the information they signal
You’ll need
sound-source flashcards or recordings, drawing paper and crayons, spoons and keys, lunch boxes and pencils, coins and stones, water and containers, balloons and string, communication-sound pictures, letter Rr cards, number 6 cards and counting materials
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy