How we became interested in the hungry caterpillar

We found a worm outside .....




This led onto a Bug Hunt and an interest in stories about bugs

We then set up an 'Invitation to Learning' in the playdough area ................

DEVELOPMENT MATTERS OBSERVED:

May form a special friendship with another child.
• Listens with interest to the noises adults make when they read stories.

•Developing understanding of simple concepts (e.g. big/little).

·        Uses language as a powerful means of widening contacts, sharing feelings, experiences and thoughts.

·        May be beginning to show preference for dominant hand.

•Repeats words or phrases from familiar stories.

•Distinguishes between the different marks they make

·        Begins to make comparisons between quantities.

•Uses some language of quantities, such as ‘more’ and ‘a lot’.

•Knows that a group of things changes in quantity when something is added or taken away.

·                  Notices simple shapes and patterns in pictures.

·        Beginning to categorise objects according to properties such as shape or size.

•Begins to use the language of size.

•Notices detailed features of objects in their environment.