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Nursery Week 3 — Mothers and Babies

Skills & curriculum alignment
Skills & activity types:
  • fine motor
  • early numeracy
  • literacy / phonics
  • art
  • science observation
  • social-emotional
  • tracing
  • writing
  • drawing
  • sorting
  • matching
  • counting
  • other

A Nursery weekly lesson plan focused on Mothers and Babies, exploring family relationships and maternal bonds in birds and animals, along with tracing letter Cc, sorting yellow and red objects, and salt painting.

What children learn

  • Talk about one's mother and the relationship between mothers and children.
  • Match animal and bird mothers with their young and discuss how babies are born and cared for.
  • Recognise, trace, and write the letter Cc and its sound.
  • Identify and sort red and yellow objects and count from 1 to 10.

Key activities

  • Drawing a self-portrait with one's mother
  • Matching picture cards of animals and birds with their babies
  • Making an animal picture with newspaper and cotton
  • Role-playing a mother and ways children can help at home
  • Creating a red heart with salt painting

You’ll need

family photographs, animal-and-baby picture cards, drawing paper and crayons, newspaper and cotton, household role-play props, red and yellow objects, salt and red paint, letter Cc cards, sand or rice trays

Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy

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