October 2008 - Schedule
Dated: 29/09/2008
This month's topic is "Autumn". We will be observing the changing season and use natural resources to create collages and prints. The activities that Stepping Stones Early Years Unit have to offer will provide opportunities for children to enhance their development in the following areas.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Collecting resources with their own family
- Self control
Communication, Language and Literacy
- Library
- "The Little Red Hen"
Mathematical Development
- Shape and size
- Counting and calculating
- Counting movements
Physical Development
- Connecting construction sets
- Different types of exersize and the effects on our bodies
- Tennis and other bat and ball games
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- Observing the changing seasons
- Harvest Festival
- How to make bread
Creative Development
- Sorting by colour
- Small world role play and creating enclosures
- Weather songs with rain makers
Ways that parents can help their childs learning
- Collect leaves, twigs, acorns and conkers to make collages with