w/c: 6.11.17 ADULT-LED ACTIVITIES: Planning from Next Steps

Observations / Activities / Areas of Learning
IC 1.11.17 / Family Play
Add dolls, prams and baby equipment to the role play area.
Encourage children to engage with each other and use the props together. / PSED: Making relationships
EAD: Being imaginative
SB 1.11.17 / Turn taking game
Introduce a turn taking game, for example a card game, to encourage sharing, waiting and turn taking with peers. Adult to provide support. / PSED: Managing feelings and behaviour
PSED: Making relationships
SH 31.10.17
JS 2.11.17
MM 3.11.17 / Mark making in shaving foam
Encourage children to create patterns and marks in shaving foam with their fingers or one-handed tools.
Provide pictures of patterns/marks for children to follow and copy. / PD: Moving and handling
L: Writing
EAD: Exploring and using media and materials
KG 31.10.17
MF 31.10.17 / Provide tub stilts in physical play to encourage balancing skills and different ways of moving. / PD: Moving and handling
AO 31.10.17
NB 31.10.17
CO 31.10.17
PL 31.10.17 / Build Rapunzel’s tower
·  Read the Rapunzel story. Talk about characters and story settings.
·  Involve the children in using the resources in the construction area, including wooden blocks and foam bricks, to build Rapunzel’s tower. (Add ivy, a ‘fairy door’ and small world castle figures) Encourage safe building techniques, talk about shape and size and link to story events. / L: Reading
EAD: Exploring and using media and materials
M: Shape, space and measure
EAD: Being imaginative
TB 2.11.17 / Drawing a tuff spot road mat
Provide white mark making tuff spot, whiteboard pens and small world cars.
Involve children in drawing roads for their cars.
Encourage children to talk about their marks and build stories in their car play. / L: Writing
PD: Moving and handling
UW: The World
EAD: Being imaginative
CW 3.11.17
NB 1.11.17 / Counting activities
Provide threading activities such as bobbins and teddy shape threading beads.
Encourage children to count the bobbins/ teddy shapes as part of their play.
(To encourage number skills and fine motor control.) / M: Numbers
PD: Moving and handling
IA KH 30.10.17
EI IJ AC 31.10.17
EM AS 1.11.17 / Shape Robots
Involve children in creating pictures of robots with paper/card 2D shapes.
Encourage shape recognition. / M: Shape, space and measure
EAD: Exploring and using media and materials
EAD: Being imaginative
FW 2.11.17
AG 2.11.17 / Investigating animal patterns
Provide a collection of soft toy wild animals and animal pattern cards.
Involve children in naming the animals and matching the animal to the pattern.
Talk about patterns (stripes, spots etc.) Encourage drawing the animal patterns (provide white and coloured paper and wax crayons).
Link to children’s animal interest and visits to the zoo and safari park. / UW: The World
PD: Moving and handling
L: Writing
EAD: Exploring and using media and materials
JJ 1.11.17
HJ 1.11.17
WS 1.11.17
HH 2.11.17 / ·  Read the story Emergency. Talk about the different kinds of emergencies and the people who help us.
·  Provide resources to make a fire fighter picture (including fire fighter pictures to cut and stick and Fireman Sam stickers) Incorporate mark making, such as drawing ladders and hoses. Talk about the role of a fire fighter. / UW: People and communities
L: Reading
L: Writing
EAD: Exploring and using media and materials
EAD: Being imaginative
CG 31.10.17 / Explore colour
Encourage CG to explore colour and texture by making a picture with a firework theme.
Incorporate colour mixing. / EAD: Exploring and using media and materials
UW: People and communities
OJ 31.10.17 / Caring for a baby
Provide baby dolls, cots, blankets and baby equipment in the role play area.
Encourage OJ to care for a baby doll using the props. / EAD: Being imaginative
CL: Speaking