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

ACTIVITIES

Indoors - free painting, playdough, vets role play corner, dressing up

Outdoors – police station in play lodge, cars and scooters, dressing up

Also, circle time discussions about Christmas and favourite things, using digital camera to take photographs of favourite toys

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Personal, Social and Emotional

Show their particular characteristics, interests and preferences

Seek to do things for themselves

Take initiatives and manage developmentally appropriate tasks

Operate independently within the environment and link up with others for support and guidance

Communication, Language and Literacy

Have the confidence to talk about own wants and interests

Use talk to reflect on past experiences

Creative Development

Capture experiences and responses with words, paint and other materials

Work creatively, using own ideas

Engage in imaginative and role play