The children in Pre-School had lots of fun making pictures using a variety of loose parts, this week we made dinosaurs. The children have been showing lots of interest in dinosaurs, so we provided different types of dinosaurs and a variety of loose parts, the children enjoyed copying the dinosaur figures to make their dinosaur pictures and some used their imagination to design their own.
INTENT
The intent of the activity was to encourage the children to talk about the dinosaurs and their pictures to help promote speech and language development.
IMPLEMENTATION
A while later the children began to make faces so we then made funny faces and spoke about different feelings...
CofEL
•Showing curiosity about objects, events and people
•Showing particular interests
•Maintaining focus on their activity for a period of time
•Paying attention to details
•Being proud of how they accomplished something – not just the end result
Personal, social and emotional Development
•Welcomes and values praise for what they have done.
•Expresses own preferences and interests.
•Can express their own feelings such as sad, happy, cross,
scared, worried.
Communication and Language
•Uses simple sentences
•Learns new words very rapidly and is able to use them in communicating.
•Uses language as a powerful means of widening contacts, sharing feelings, experiences and thoughts.
•Beginning to use more complex sentences to link thoughts (e.g. using and, because).
•Uses talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play, e,g, ‘This box is my castle.
Mathematics
•Shows an interest in shape and space by playing with shapes or making arrangements with objects.
