Early Years Curriculum Rationale

August

The children in both playrooms have been making the most of the lovely weather.  We have been very busy growing and planting in our allotment beds, subutising and matching pebbles to dice patterns, investigating the properties of gloop and sharing ‘tea’ at an impromptu party.

Indoors we have been sharing stories in our ‘cosy literacy corner’.

September

Outdoors the children have been making potions using herbs and ‘stingy lemon’, searching for bugs and insects, investigating how non-standard items roll and working at the community allotment with George from the Eglinton Growers Association.

Indoors we were visited by 2 Police Officers who told us all about keeping safe in our community.  We also turned our art table upside down and attached cling film around the legs so that we could “see through the paint”.

October

We have been learning about all the tasks required to look after a baby, including bath time, colour mixing using pipettes in the water tray, measuring each other and talking about ‘length and height’, investigating pattern and peeling, chopping and roasting veg for snack.  Outdoors, we have been making up rules to our own games at the MUGA.

November

At the allotment we have been sowing seeds in small pots.  Indoors we have been leading our own learning by sharing stories with our peers, rhyming from our take home booklets, choosing our own media for mark-making and making our own playdough.  We have invited parents in to ‘stay and play’.

December

We have been busy mixing ingredients to make oat biscuits to share at our Christmas party, ‘writing stories’ upside down under a table, colour mixing at the art area and learning all about working and using money in our local shop.  Outdoors we have been building dens and ‘hideouts’.

January

We can independently peel and chop the vegetables for our snack, learn about how our bodies work in our ‘hospital’ and become authors as we create our own stroybooks.  Outdoors we have been searching for spiders and making obstacle courses to develop our balancing skills.