From 24/05/2010
Personal, social and emotional development
Activities we will be doing:
- New starters bonding with key workers at one to one time
- Looking at ourselves
- Role playing in the home corner the dolls cots and bottles
Things you could try at home:
- Looking in the mirror
- Looking at pictures of ourselves as babies
This helps children understand / learn about:
- Themselves and others and learning life skills
Communication, language and literacy
Activities we will be doing:
- Baby signing - makaton looking at our family books
- Taking a walk to the local park to see and hear sight and sounds
Things you could try at home:
- Local outings looking and listening to sounds
- Baby signing
This helps children understand / learn about:
- Different forms of communication
Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
Activities we will be doing:
- Treasure baskets
- Shape sorters
- Sorting objects
- Number rhymes
- Puzzles
Things you could try at home:
- Playing with puzzles
- Signing number
- Singing rhymes
This helps children understand / learn about:
- Textures and shapes
- finding ways of achieving things hand to eye coordination
Knowledge and understanding of the world
Activities we will be doing:
- Walk to the local park to explore nature
- Exploring the garden playing with water and funnels
Things you could try at home:
- Exploring the outdoors treasure baskets
This helps children understand / learn about:
- The world around us. What can be done with water and funnels
Physical development
Activities we will be doing:
- In the garden - using the large apparatus
- The slide climbing frame
- Ride on cars
- Pushing the buggy and wheel barrows around
- In the room feeding ourselves
Things you could try at home:
- Trips to the park to use the slides etc.
This helps children understand / learn about:
- How their bodies work
- What tasks they can do for themselves
Creative development
Activities we will be doing:
- Potato printing
- shaving foam
- Hand painting
- Water play
- Cooking
Things you could try at home:
- Cooking - Making bread
- Playing with water at bath time
This helps children understand / learn about:
- Creating, textures touch smell, senses
Welcome and goodbye
- Welcome to Daniel and Abagail
- Goodbye to Ciara who has left us
Birthdays
Special events