Maza
22-08-2023, 07:26 PM
Do you do book of the week/month?
Just when I think I am finally comfortable with my planning, I go and get mixed ages!
For a good while, I've done 'book of the week' and have based our activities for the week around that book. I've been really happy with it and the children have always responded well to it.
However, from September, I will have quite big age ranges. The books that I would naturally choose for my pre-schoolers will be too long/sophisticated for the much younger ones. I experimented briefly with having two books - one for the older ones and one for the young toddlers, but it was a bit messy in my head, and was a lot to cram into the day. Obviously, we read a whole range of books on any given day, so they are all having their learning needs met, but I do like having a specific book to ground us and give us a focus.
We're constantly having to adapt the way we do things in this job!
No real point to this post - just rambling - unless anyone has any words of wisdom of course...
Just when I think I am finally comfortable with my planning, I go and get mixed ages!
For a good while, I've done 'book of the week' and have based our activities for the week around that book. I've been really happy with it and the children have always responded well to it.
However, from September, I will have quite big age ranges. The books that I would naturally choose for my pre-schoolers will be too long/sophisticated for the much younger ones. I experimented briefly with having two books - one for the older ones and one for the young toddlers, but it was a bit messy in my head, and was a lot to cram into the day. Obviously, we read a whole range of books on any given day, so they are all having their learning needs met, but I do like having a specific book to ground us and give us a focus.
We're constantly having to adapt the way we do things in this job!
No real point to this post - just rambling - unless anyone has any words of wisdom of course...