Transcript chatter matters week mini PowerPoint 2016

‘chatter matters’™ week
7th – 11th March 2016
‘chatter matters’™ week ideas
Theme
Ideas for your setting
Resources
At home
Muddy
Monday!
Make a mud kitchen
Muddy handprints
Old kitchen utensils
Mud!
Play with safe kitchen
utensils – stir and tip some
dried pasta shapes
Turn it off
Tuesday
Screen-free day
Skipping and clapping
games, simple card
matching games
People, not gadgets!
A traditional game
Switch off hour – what
else can you play?
Watery
Wednesday
Welly walk
Build a water chute
Wellies
Plastic bottles, bowls
and tubes
Play with some different
plastic jugs, cups and
scoops at bath time
Thank you
Thursday
Make a ‘thank you’ card –
‘thank you for helping me
learn to chat!’
Printable template on
website
Try one of the nature
ideas from the ‘chatter
matters’™ squirrels!
Flowers on
Friday or
Fruit on Friday
Make a flower picture or
collage
Try some new food/fruits
Tissue paper/fabric
scraps
Unusual fruits
A walk around the shops
to look at all the fruit and
vegetables.
Muddy Monday
Muddy nature walk – include parents
Muddy handprints
Plant a seed
Make labels for plants
Build a mud kitchen
Build a bug farm
Growing seeds such as beans in plastic bottles
Visit an allotment
Plant a herb garden – lots of sensory opportunities
Mini gardens made on a paper plate or something
similar.
• Linking in with the Woodland Trust
• Songs and rhymes about plants and flowers,
growing, sunshine and rain
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Turn it off Tuesday
• How about a screen-free day?
• Skipping and clapping games – how we used
to play!
• Card matching games – use new technology to
make a traditional matching game
• Grow some bugs: e.g. ladybirds or butterflies
• Guide dog visits to setting
• Pets as Therapy
• Nature walk – include parents
• Library session – visit the library or have the
library visit the setting
• Traditional tales: giant magic beans (Jack and
the Beanstalk) pulling up a giant turnip (The
Giant Turnip) etc.
Wet Weather/Welly Wednesday
• Go for a welly walk
• Fill a tough tray with mud and use small world
people to make footprints
• Make weather pictures with paint, crayons
and cotton wool
• Grow runner beans or another seed in a small
clear plastic bag (put a wet jiffy in the bag
with seed and place against the window).
Watch the seed grow... Something that
children can take home an put against their
window at home.
• Park trip
Thank you or Thinking Thursday
• Make a thank you card for parents using the
printable on the ‘time to talk’™ website – add a
handprint or a photograph
• Thinking Thursday for reflection
• Make a communication tree pyramid for your
wall, or make it 3D – add ‘words of the week’ or
‘first words’ as leaves, or add clear words as
apples
• Pebble painting to create story pebbles or the
creation of a fairy garden or minibeast motel
using plants and shrubs, twigs, stones, etc from
their outdoor environment
• Create your own talking tub/treasure basket,
collecting natural items
Friends, Family, Food, Fruit, Flowers
Fun Friday
• A celebration!
• Hold a fruit tea party – could you try
some new fruits?
• Food from each child’s culture?
• Invite families in to an activity
• Visit the garden centre
• Craft activity – make some flowers
• Make a collage together – involve all the
children with different materials
• ‘chatter matters’™ celebration event!
the pyramid – as a tree!
fruit – clear speech
leaves - talking
branches – understanding
trunk – attention & listening
roots- attachment & social interaction