The
children have spent a lot of time in the car park, watching the world go
by.
The activities this month will be
based around the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) areas of learning:
Prime areas:
PSED: Learning
alongside others, sharing discoveries and exploring new things supported by
familiar key person or friend. PD: Using
their body to move, pass, operate vehicles and walking to street to watch vehicles.
C&L: imitating words and sounds.
Making sounds to represent noises vehicles make.
Specific areas:
M: Recognising
different sizes, matching, ordering vehicles. UW: Observing the different vehicles on the street, what they do,
how they sound. EA&D: Expressions of what they have learned through movement,
sound, art.
Some of the activities we will be doing
this month will involve:
·
Obstacle
course. Sarah F will be supporting the use of their
bodies as vehicles or using ride on toys, moving around cones, responding to
signs and role modelling from what they see or know about the streets and
vehicles.
·
Vehicle
Flashcards. Afia will
support the children to learn the words and sounds for different modes of
transport by looking through flashcards.
·
Vehicle
collages. Christina will be helping the children to
make collages of vehicles and talking about the different names, noises,
activities of them as they go.
·
Making
artistic tracks. Alice will be supporting the children in
making art by painting with the wheels of the vehicles, making sounds and
actions as they go.
·
Small
world play. Amina will be supporting the children in
setting up lots of small world play with all the different vehicles and playing
sounds of the roads, sea, sky.
·
Emergency
Vehicles. Manjit will be supporting the children to
make 3D artwork of different emergency vehicles using boxes, foil, sweet
wrappers etc.
·
Excursions
to the river, railway station and roads. All of the team
will be taking the children on a range of excursions to look at different types
of transport.
Some ideas to support your children at home:
·
Take time to stop of and look at diggers,
trucks, trains and cars. Children love it and find it fascinating. Talk about
what they are doing.
·
Take a trip on some transport that you normally
don’t for a change. Buses, trains, canal boats, river bus. Do you or a friend
have a canoe or rowing boat they could have a little ride in?
·
Go for a walk to a Fire Station. Look at the
fire engines through the doors or windows. You might even be lucky enough for
one to come out all bells and speed.
·
Go to the library and get out some books on
transport.
·
Walks along the Thames in the weekend are full
of different boats. Have a walk, watch and chat about it.
