Intended Goal: To encourage the children’s imaginative play and creativity. Develop their fine motor and eye-hand coordination. Developmentally Appropriate: This activity is developmentally appropriate because music activities are a ton of fun and the children are able to learn about each other culture since they come from different countries. Many children communicate better through music and can make friends easier. RC II-4 Fine Motors (indoor activity) Title: Shaving Cream Age: 4 years
Pictures: Pictures are used alongside words to make communication more easier and understandable. In fact in my placement school, the reading scheme that is used starts the children off with ‘picture only’ books so the children are encouraged to talk about the pictures in the book and make their own story up and ask questions. Technology: Computer programmes (apps and games), interactive whiteboard, story tapes, cds are all ways of stimulating a child’s communication development. These days a lot of programmes are interactive and children can hear and respond to different applications made specially to help develop their
You must be professional and approachable to children giving them lots of praise and eye contact. If you do this the child feels comfortable around you. If the child feels happy and comfortable and able to trust you then you are making the right impression on them. Allowing the child to come to you when they feel uncomfortable or they need assistance with something. Children tend to role play themselves through play playing schools and playing the role of teachers, playing mums and dads, etc so this proves that the way in which adults behave has a strong impact on how children look up to adults as role models.
The environment provided to the children is peaceful and relaxed. The parents specifically designated this time just for the two children so they can freely interact and play as they please. They also placed quite a few toys scared around the area for them to play while being supervised from a short distance. One of Piaget’s theories describes the children’s as “little scientists” which in a way is their drive for discovery. They are more then little babies who need to be feed with information to learn.
Have fun with children. Let them play and be themselves, it’s OK! Many people think “what are children learning through play?” try it and you will see. You will see that children learn most of what they know through play. I’m not talking about planned out play.
The children really enjoy looking at the display and making models at home with their parents to add to the display. The display is also a learning tool because as mentioned it provides the planets
Children learn by observing and imitating and so watching and being supported by adults who encourage and work creatively by being flexible in approach, solving problems and painting and drawing with them can help develop their creativity. Children’s environments and the practitioners who work with them should be receptive to new ideas and innovations and encourage them to explore and be creative. Creativity as a process – Some theories look at creativity as a process. They look at how new ideas develop. An early theory put forward by Graham Wallas was a five-stage model that focused on the unconscious mind: • Preparation – initial thoughts about a problem • Incubation – time spent thinking unconsciously about the problem • Intimation – being aware that an answer is within
B1- Links up with D4- Why the examples of communication with children and with parents were effective Example one- Nursery rhyme pack with plan 1. My nursery rhyme pack which was a rhyme (Hey diddle diddle), a jigsaw that matched the song and also a finger puppet that the children could use whilst singing the song was a very good and fun idea for the children. It helped develop the children’s social, communication, and intellectual skills. A way in which it helped to develop their social skills was by them singing along with each other and interacting with each other. After I had completed my activity with them they were asking me many different questions for example, ‘how did you make the jigsaw’ and ‘can I have ago at using the finger puppets’, so by that they were also developing their communication skills.
CYPOP7 1.1 Creative learning is where children use the range of materials and play opportunities around them, provided by adults. A child’s curiosity will lead them to explore the resources. From this the child will learn through play, using imagination, new and unusual ideas (originality), a variety of different ideas (productivity), problem solving and experimenting. Creativity it helps children to express feeling and ideas about people objects and events. This could be in the form of painting, drawing, collage, music, dance, woodwork, model making, sand and water with small world scenarios and miniature garden scenarios.
Babies would shake, knock over toys to learn. As they develop (three-five) they will do things such as finger painting, playing in water or sand, feeling different objects and collecting things such as leaves/bugs. Physical coordination- When engaging in physical activities the child is strengthen their physical coordination ways to do this is through play which can be a number of things from clapping to climbing The Importance of Play and Development AGE 1-2 YEARS Musical instruments Outline of activity- Playing musical instruments The activity will encourage communication by- listening to each other play beats, hearing different sounds and having fun The activity will encourage social and emotional development by- Smiling and interacting with other children The activity will encourage cognitive development by- Using fine and gross motor skills, associating different sounds. The Importance of Play in Development AGES 3-4 YEARS Reading activity Outline of activity- Reading books in a group Resources needed- Adult, children and books The activity will encourage communication by- Speaking and listen and by asking