A week busy week in Tweenies....

Child led activity: 

Two children chose to dress up in princess dresses, accessing all areas of continuous provision, pretending to be princesses. This soon became a great interest to all the children, who all became involved in this activity. Staff did not intervene, they observed the following: 

PSED - Making relationships 

• Interested in others’ play and starting to join in. 

•Seeks out others to share experiences. 

•Shows affection and concern for people who are special to them. 

•May form a special friendship with another child.

C&L - Speaking 

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

•Holds a conversation, jumping from topic to topic. 

•Learns new words very rapidly and is able to use them in communicating. 

Literacy - Reading 

•Has some favourite stories. 

•Repeats words or phrases from familiar stories.

It was lovely to watch a group of 8 two year olds engage in an activity initiated by themselves, not requiring any adult input. 

Due to the great interest in the princess theme, staff set up an invitation to learning (taking into consideration children's next steps in learning) 

Play dough station - making crowns and necklaces 

 

 Impact:
COEL - Playing and exploring
•Pretending objects are things from their experience •Representing their experiences in play
•Taking on a role in their play
•Acting out experiences with other people
COEL - Creating and thinking critically
•Thinking of ideas
Maths - Numbers
Expressive arts and design - Being imaginative

Making up our own songs about fire trucks... 

Dinosaur

Intent - From observations : explore language such as big and small 

Implementation - set up a dinosaur world in the 'tuff spot' using materials that will show different size footprints ie play dough, gloop, soil etc

Impact 

-Physical - Health and self care - beginning to show independence in hand washing 

-C&L - speaking 

-PSED - Managing feelings and behaviour 

-Maths - shape, space and measure - Begins to use the language of size

The children were standing on and jumping off the large bricks inside.

An Invitation to Learning was set up outside to allow the children to balance, jump, climb, run.