Learning through play in Pre School

·        Beginning to construct, stacking blocks vertically and horizontally, making enclosures and creating spaces

·        Joins construction pieces together to build and balance

·        Constructs with a purpose in mind, using a variety of resources.

·        Uses available resources to create props to support role-play

        Enjoys playing with small-world models such as a farm, a garage, or a train track

·        Plays alongside other children who are engaged in the same theme

·        Shows an interest in number problems

·        Counts up to three or four objects by saying one number name for each item.

Keeps play going by responding to what others are saying or doing.

·        Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration

·        Responds to simple instructions

·        Begins to accept the needs of others and can take turns and share resources, sometimes with support from others

·        Draws lines and circles using gross motor movements

·        Begins to use anticlockwise movement and retrace vertical lines.

•Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint