mum2two
04-02-2008, 09:06 AM
Over the weekend, I thought I'd sit down & start planning. After Feb half term, I'm taking on a new mindee, so this is when I'll start from. Gives me a couple of weeks to get organised.
I've decided I'm going to do fornightly topics. First one being spring, End feb/begin March. So sat down, and thought of loads of activities, nursery rhymes relating to spring, particular stories etc, and then started trying to work out which areas they will relate too.... It took me ages.
Am I being thick. I don't seem to be able to 'click' easily as to which areas a particular topis will cover.
For example - Planting Seeds I have as PS,R,N - Counting out seeds, looking at the shapes. KUW - How plants grow, taking care of them. CD - Shapes & Colours. What coulor we think plants will be, how dirt feels, dry & wet. PSE - Growing lettuce, Toms, corgettes (grew these last year & quite easy! :p ) good for you. Keeps you healty. PD - Again, heathly eating.
Is this right...? If it is along the right lines, I guess it'll get easier the more I do it. What I then plan to do, is have a folder for each child, and take pictures of them doing things. Put a picture on a page, the detail, which parts of the EYFS they are relating to. Like say I have a 2yr old & 4yr old counting the seeds. I could put on 2yr olds, repeated numbers with me when counting, and for the 4yr olds, say could count to 4 by themselves.
Then have a folder for myself with copies of what's in the childs folders, to show ofsted or prospective parents what I do. Evidence of activites & obs.
Sorry about the long post, but just need to clarify I'm going about things in the right way.
Arrrggghhh - just so much work!!! :panic:
Thanks for any advice.
Kelly x
I've decided I'm going to do fornightly topics. First one being spring, End feb/begin March. So sat down, and thought of loads of activities, nursery rhymes relating to spring, particular stories etc, and then started trying to work out which areas they will relate too.... It took me ages.
Am I being thick. I don't seem to be able to 'click' easily as to which areas a particular topis will cover.
For example - Planting Seeds I have as PS,R,N - Counting out seeds, looking at the shapes. KUW - How plants grow, taking care of them. CD - Shapes & Colours. What coulor we think plants will be, how dirt feels, dry & wet. PSE - Growing lettuce, Toms, corgettes (grew these last year & quite easy! :p ) good for you. Keeps you healty. PD - Again, heathly eating.
Is this right...? If it is along the right lines, I guess it'll get easier the more I do it. What I then plan to do, is have a folder for each child, and take pictures of them doing things. Put a picture on a page, the detail, which parts of the EYFS they are relating to. Like say I have a 2yr old & 4yr old counting the seeds. I could put on 2yr olds, repeated numbers with me when counting, and for the 4yr olds, say could count to 4 by themselves.
Then have a folder for myself with copies of what's in the childs folders, to show ofsted or prospective parents what I do. Evidence of activites & obs.
Sorry about the long post, but just need to clarify I'm going about things in the right way.
Arrrggghhh - just so much work!!! :panic:
Thanks for any advice.
Kelly x