venus89
11-06-2008, 01:31 PM
1. My 15 month old mindee has great physical control and is quite mature for age. We've just spent20 minutes in wendy house with her taking off an putting on the lid of a biro, and drawing on a piece of paper. She must have put the lid on literally hundreds of times during this. I see this as a great experience for her and want to put it in my observations BUT shoudl I be letting a (exceptionally closely supervised) 15 month old play with a biro?
2. In my EYFS course the instructor said they'll expect about 50% child initiated activitie and about 50% adult initiated in future. Today I had my mindee from 8.55, where mum passes her over in school playground. We came home, she slept, we went to baby bounce and rhyme then read some library books, quick trip to the park then home at 11.30. Floor play till 12 then lunch. Drawing. 30 min nap. Then outside till just now - water play and duplo out there as 2 activities, but also lot of her bumbling around doing what she chooses (eg the pen thing I mentioned above). Now I reckon bounce and rhyme is adult intitiated, and I certainly initiated the duplo play. The floor play was about 50/50 but that was only 1/2 hour of our day. I did do footprints for the fathers day card but sneakily while she was eating!
So my question is - am I doing enough? I've always favoured letting them lead the way most of the time at that kind of age....
2. In my EYFS course the instructor said they'll expect about 50% child initiated activitie and about 50% adult initiated in future. Today I had my mindee from 8.55, where mum passes her over in school playground. We came home, she slept, we went to baby bounce and rhyme then read some library books, quick trip to the park then home at 11.30. Floor play till 12 then lunch. Drawing. 30 min nap. Then outside till just now - water play and duplo out there as 2 activities, but also lot of her bumbling around doing what she chooses (eg the pen thing I mentioned above). Now I reckon bounce and rhyme is adult intitiated, and I certainly initiated the duplo play. The floor play was about 50/50 but that was only 1/2 hour of our day. I did do footprints for the fathers day card but sneakily while she was eating!
So my question is - am I doing enough? I've always favoured letting them lead the way most of the time at that kind of age....