Cazz
22-10-2010, 09:31 PM
After going through the e-books I purchased off Sarah I can see light at the end of the tunnel :thumbsup:
I have a 4 year old before and after school 3 days a week and a 18 mth old all day on a Friday, so I've decided to do a monthly individual planning sheet for each of them with a theme some weeks and something planned relevant to their own interests on other weeks.
I'm also going to use one of Sarah's templates with space to write an observation for each area and ideas for next steps/planning. Presumably you don't have to have something for each area every month?
Obviously I'll do observations as well - some photo and some just written. All of these things will go in the child's learning journey.
I'm also going to fill in a spider web chart for my planned activities so that I've got something in my planning file as evidence to Ofsted.
Am I along the right lines here - today I had my 18 mth old and I had to go and buy some tickets from another town a few miles away. I planned to take him and my dd to feed some ducks (on planning sheet) so I took bread with us. However, the only pond we found was deserted but we found a fantastic new play area just down the road so we went there instead. I took some photo's for G's learning journey.
I've put on my planning sheet that we didn't feed the ducks because we couldn't find any but we played on the new park instead. While we were there a tractor was cutting the grass on the recreation ground next to the play area and G took quite a bit of interest in the tractor. My next steps are to get some books with tractors in and get the tractors out for G to play with. (This will come into November's planning because I'm on holiday next week).
Am I on the right tracks here?
I have a 4 year old before and after school 3 days a week and a 18 mth old all day on a Friday, so I've decided to do a monthly individual planning sheet for each of them with a theme some weeks and something planned relevant to their own interests on other weeks.
I'm also going to use one of Sarah's templates with space to write an observation for each area and ideas for next steps/planning. Presumably you don't have to have something for each area every month?
Obviously I'll do observations as well - some photo and some just written. All of these things will go in the child's learning journey.
I'm also going to fill in a spider web chart for my planned activities so that I've got something in my planning file as evidence to Ofsted.
Am I along the right lines here - today I had my 18 mth old and I had to go and buy some tickets from another town a few miles away. I planned to take him and my dd to feed some ducks (on planning sheet) so I took bread with us. However, the only pond we found was deserted but we found a fantastic new play area just down the road so we went there instead. I took some photo's for G's learning journey.
I've put on my planning sheet that we didn't feed the ducks because we couldn't find any but we played on the new park instead. While we were there a tractor was cutting the grass on the recreation ground next to the play area and G took quite a bit of interest in the tractor. My next steps are to get some books with tractors in and get the tractors out for G to play with. (This will come into November's planning because I'm on holiday next week).
Am I on the right tracks here?