Here is a box...
Open ended resources really do mean open ended, there are so many opportunities for Active Learning, inspiring imaginations and enjoying together with our sets of 8 storage boxes which fit inside each other.
Using a variety of sensory items and books and props which you may already have in your setting tie up the boxes with ribbons and think about some possible uses during times of the day for them:
1. Greeting Time/Goodbye Time:
Do you use a song to say hello to the children in the morning? Maybe use a photograph of each child in a box to find them and say "Hello!" then use again for "Goodbye" time.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Spooky Ideas for Halloween
Halloween is fast approaching, and here at The Totem Pole, Room on the Broom by The Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson is a huge favourite. We are stocking Room on the Broom in sturdy board book format here in our marketplace as well as all the animals who share the Witch's broomstick and some wonderful cast iron cauldrons.
With the book read aloud with some props and see the number of ways the children might extend it into other areas. These are some possible ideas for extension activities...
|
|
Read more...
|
Summer Starting Points
Song
Using blue lycra as the sea, the mermaids can swim and the pirates can sail.
"Over the deep blue sea"
"When I was one I'd just begun, the day I went to sea
I jumped aboard a pirate ship and the captain said to me:
"We're going this way, that way, forwards and backwards
Over the Irish Sea, a bottle of rum to warm me tum, and that's the life for me."
Find pirates, mermaids, lycra and fish in our Pirates and Mermaids Resources Section.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Take 5 Things.... Using Lycra
Engaging the children with you in exploring Lycra gives the opportunity to play creatively and have lots of fun.
- A sheet of lycra
- Balloons
- Collection of ‘monkeys’
- Collection of ‘teddies’
- Collection of ‘leaves’
- Remember that Lycra is an open ended product
- Don’t think about the outcome of the play just observe what the children do as they join you.
- Their actions will lead to your next steps.
- Watch for the children’s leads as you invite them to gather around the Lycra.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
|
Page 1 of 2 |
