I have had heaps of messages about this so thought it just easier to post in the forum rather than to email it to everyone
We are going on a " pretend holiday " every week of the holidays and the children are deciding where we will go
We have made our own passports A4 size so they are nice and big for the younger ones
We have some plane tickets to print out and off we go
We are then going to concentrate on finding lots of information about the place we visit we are also planning a visit to the travel agents to get books to cut out - it could be a different country that you visit or it could be somewhere local that we visit for a day
We will do lots of research and write about where we stay and what we will need and what the weather is going to be like and what clothes etc we will need to take with us
The kids have each got a folder ( 5 for a pound at asda ) and this is their brief case this will hold their passport and the information that they find out
You could also make a suitcase with a shoe box maybe
You can extend this activity lots of ways yourself - make some money - cooking something from the country you visit etc etc
Put commercial and child-made posters on the wall showing a selection of holiday destinations such as the seaside; snowy resorts; hot cities; water parks; theme parks; and cruises on boats. Hang a large calendar on the wall, at child-height, for the children to find real or imaginary holiday dates. Provide a globe, atlas and maps for the children to identify different places around the world.
Role-play area; commercial and child-made items such as holiday brochures and destination posters; calendars; adverts and leaflets featuring hotels, bed and breakfast, caravans and campsites; globe; atlas; maps; low-level tables; bookshelves; toy till; real or pretend money; dressing-up clothes; computer with printer (optional).
Create a holiday catalogue.
What about if you draw a large picture of a plane or a train and put pictures of the kids looking out of the windows for your notice board ?
Use a large picture of a plane and discuss it with the children
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Explore the picture together and encourage the children to recall memories of flying to holiday destinations. Who did they travel with? Where did they go? Extend the discussion to include other forms of transport relevant to the children in your setting.
Invite the children to say what they like best about air travel and discuss any anxieties that they may have about the size and noise of aircraft and the sensation of flying.
Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
Play a dice game with six children and one adult using the picture and circular photographs to determine the order that everyone can board the aeroplane. For example, the first person to throw a 1 can get on the aeroplane first, the first person to throw a 2 can get on the aeroplane second and so on. Continue until all the children are on board.
Pose problems involving addition and subtraction, for example, ‘How many round windows on the aeroplane have faces in them? How many are empty? How many windows are there altogether?’. Put photographs in all of the round windows, then ask, ‘How many people will be left if two get off?’. Remove two photographs and let the children count to check.
Physical Development
Encourage the children to become aircraft designers. Let them experiment with card, paint, circular printing objects and drawing materials for their designs.
After discussing the picture, draw a chalk landing strip outdoors and pretend to be aeroplanes taking off, flying to holiday destinations and returning to land again. Join the children on their journeys, singing ‘We’re going on a holiday, flying on a plane, visiting (chosen destination) and flying back again!’. Point out features such as oceans and snowy mountains.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Talk with the children about different places that the aeroplane might fly to take people on holiday, such as tropical islands, big cities, safaris and so on.
Explore model aeroplanes and photographs of air travel on websites, posters and books, and compare them with the image on the picture. Point out features such as the ‘nose’, ‘tail’, ‘wing’ and ‘engine’. Why might an aeroplane have wings and engines?
Make model aeroplanes from recycled materials and hang them up as mobiles.
Creative Development
Provide equipment for the children to create a small-world airport to take tiny characters on holiday.
Look at the picture as inspiration for the creation of a roleplay make aeroplanes outdoors using equipment such as crates, boxes and planks. Use the children’s photographs to create passports and checking-in tickets for the role-play area.
Communication, Language and Literacy
Make a name card for each child and put them into a bag. Play‘Who is travelling today?’. Take turns to pull a card out of the bag, identify the child’s name and put a circular photograph of that child in a window on the picture.
Discuss and pretend where the children on the picture might be going and then ask individual children where they would like to go on their holiday. Invite them to draw a picture of themselves going on holiday, and help them to describe the caption, for example, ‘I am going on holiday to Spain’.
You could extend these ideas with lots of ideas from different websites
More ideas .....
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/sch...the_whole_unit
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