This week’s activities and learning opportunities based on the Early Years Foundation Stage will include the following:

ACTIVITIES

Indoors – art and craft penguins, polar bears and Inuits (Eskimos), creating Arctic and Antarctic lands in trays with ice and shaving foam, plastic animals, books (fact and fiction), ice blocks with hidden treasures

Outdoors – Igloo play lodge, dressing up clothes with hats and scarves, Arctic and Antarctic pictures, ‘fishing rods’, pretending to be Arctic and Antarctic animals

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Use others as a source of information and learning

Enjoy playing with small world toys

Show curiosity and interest in the features of objects and living things

Investigate construction materials

Try out a range of tools and techniques safely

Use simple tools and techniques safely and competently

Show an interest in the world in which they live

Comment and ask questions about where they live and the natural world

Communication, Language and Literacy

Know that information can be retrieved from books and computers

Creative

Seek to make sense of what they see, hear, sense and smell

Explore and experience using a range of sense and movement

Create constructions and collages and work creatively