i have been childmingind for about a month now with an afterschool girl who is 9, I havent really done much planning for her as i know she is out of the eyfs, so we just sort of play board games and do craft activities, but i have now for the past 2 weeks been looking after a 3 year old boy for 1.5 hours in the morning and he is really quiet and is obsessed with trains and cars so he just plays with them - I have suddently realised that even though i have him for 1.5 hours i need to be doing planning for him. but i'm really struggling, is there a set format for planning? i have decided i want to do fortnightly/monthly themes, so can realte what this boy does to the themes and try and include the areas of the eyfs, but surely i can't cover everything in just 1.5 hours??? im also really stressed with observations - becuase are you meant to observe everything they do? or just note things that are significant and co-incide with the eyfs? and when ofsted do come do they want to look at old planning and observations or are they only interested in recent ones? any tips for observing??? i also have a 4 month old starting next week and how am i meant to plan activities for a 4 month old to fit in with the eyfs??? sorry for all the questions, i just feel so underprepared!?
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