Personal, social and emotional development

Activities we will be doing

Leanna
Bonding with key person
Different set up of garden
Interacting with others
Singing and signing

Kirsty
Looking in mirrors at own reflection, talking to them about what they see
Looking at own pictures
Spending one to one time

Shirley
Invite another room for tea
Visit other rooms
Spend one to one time with key worker

 

Things you could try at home

Leanna
Simple sign language
Exploring a new environment

Kirsty
Looking through family and friend photos

Shirley
Talking

 

This helps children understand / learn about

Leanna
Having a strong exploratory impulse, working/interacting with others
Learning new skills

Kirsty
Self confidence and self esteem, this helps them to bond with the key worker

Shirley
Other people exist



Communication, language and literacy

Activities we will be doing

Leanna
Singing nursery rhymes and reading stories
Saying Hello and Goodbye
Drawing using chalk and crayon

Kirsty
Looking through familiar books, reading stories
Focus on objects around them e.g. family books and stories

Shirley
Looking at books and repeating words
Saying Hello, Goodbye and Thank you
Making marks using chalks

 

Things you could try at home

Leanna
Talking through routine whilst carrying it out
Reading a story at bedtime

Kirsty
Reading favourite story , bringing it in

Shirley
Reading a book, getting children to repeat words after you
Talk to the children about what you are doing when doing normal routines

 

This helps children understand / learn about

Leanna
Having knowledge of responding to sounds, making marks and interacting socially with others.

Kirsty
Focus on set activities

Shirley
Sounds that objects or people or animals make
Being sociable



Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy

Activities we will be doing

Leanna
Nursery rhymes with actions and signing
Mirror play
Exploring sensory basket

Kirsty
Making counters with numbers on
Singing nursery rhymes which include numbers

Shirley
Hiding different toys/equipment in different media's to find e.g. gak
Looking at books showing big and little e.g. kitten/cat
Jigsaws

 

Things you could try at home

Leanna
Looking into the mirrors at home and talking about the reflection and who it is

Kirsty
Singing nursery rhymes which include numbers using fingers to count

Shirley
Jigsaws
Books

 

This helps children understand / learn about

Leanna
Exploration can encourage solving problems

Kirsty
Numbers and sequences

Shirley
Shapes and sizes of different toys and what they can do and how it works



Knowledge and understanding of the world

Activities we will be doing

Leanna
Material to explore and create with
Cars and car mat
Climbing on apparatus in the garden

Kirsty
Exploring toys with flaps, buttons and flashing lights with interest
Playing alongside other children in same activity

Shirley
Treasure baskets; metal, wood, materials
Wooden bricks, planks in the garden
Drain pipes

 

Things you could try at home

Leanna
Building with blocks
Exploration of the garden/park
Going to play centre

Kirsty
Practise pushing buttons and pilling flaps

Shirley
Play and explore every day objects with them e.g. pots and pans

 

This helps children understand / learn about

Leanna
Textures around us, being imaginative having the knowledge that objects are different shapes and sizes

Kirsty
Exploring and investigating toys and how they work

Shirley
Investigation of items. They learn to do fine manipulative skills which they learn through handling objects



Physical development

Activities we will be doing

Leanna
Sensory bottles and basket
Key worker time
Home corner as clothes shop

Kirsty
To use mobility to connect toys
Rolling, crawling and walking
Garden time, playing on suede rocking horse

Shirley
Slopes- large wooden blocks and planks of wood set up in the top garden to walk or crawl over
Make tents with blankets
Balls

 

Things you could try at home

Leanna

Making your own sensory bottles

Kirsty
Encourage mobility to strengthen muscles Take them to the park to practise on equipment

Shirley
Visit the park, play on equipment

 

This helps children understand / learn about

Leanna
Different textures exist and what they feel like on the different body parts

Kirsty
Moving around, strengthens muscles and being more confident

Shirley
Moving and the space around them



Creative development

Activities we will be doing

Leanna
Making musical instruments
Body painting
Smelly socks

Kirsty
Feeling different textures and smelling different smelly objects e.g. juices, fruits

Shirley
Feeling and smelling different herbs e.g. basil
Playing with torches
Food tasting and making food prints

 

Things you could try at home

Leanna
Exploring body with bubbles in the bath

Kirsty
Looking through textured books available
Playing in mud/sand

Shirley
If visiting supermarket point to different foods and talk about them, let the children smell them
Play in the dark with a torch

 

This helps children understand / learn about

Leanna
Different parts of the body and what they are
Making noise and being aware of sound

Kirsty
Different textures. Smell, feel and hear different textures

Shirley
Different experiences
Express feelings about what they hear, feel and touch, taste



Welcome & good bye

None this month

Birthdays

None this month

Notes

None this month