Activities to promote Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Imaginative Play ● Role-play ● dressing up ● Home corner ● Cooking ● Shopping ● Doll House ● Activities to learn about sharing ● Activities, puzzles & board games to learn about taking turn ● Celebrate achievement & birthday
Activities to develop Communication, Language and Literacy
Story Time (children to make up own their stories, tell their news)
Spoken games about colours, shapes & opposites ● Nursery Rhymes ● Alphabets games and songs ● Recognizing a variety of sounds
Activities to develop Handwriting Skills
Tracing ● Copying ● Mark making ● Writing: letters to friends, shopping list, own names, cards, labels, postcards, simple words etc…
Activities to promote Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
Card games with numbers ● Shopping (play money) ● Labels of numbers for counting ● Sand/water play for measuring ● Songs with numbers in them ● Cars for measuring distance and space ● Counting ● Sorting ● Matching ● Building with construction Wooden bricks Farm animals and Zoo animals, Threading buttons, etc
Activities to promote Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Activities for exploration of senses: taste – touch – hear - smell
Activities for investigation: mirrors, magnifying glass, wet sand, dry sand, binoculars etc
Activities to promote designing: Learn to use tools such as scissors, glue, string, sticky tapes, hole puncher, etc… to assemble, to shape, to join.
Discovering our world: activities to learn about our world, countries, food, people, animals, music, and festivals
Computer Skills ● ICT in the environment ● Learn about the use of technology
Physical Activities
Climbing frame ● Slide ● Swing ● Ball games ● Skittles / Bowling ● Beans bags ● Hoops ● Balancing beams ● Tunnel ● Actions games: hopping, jumping, and running Bikes ● Trikes & Cars
Creative Activities
Drawing ● Colouring ● Printing ● Painting ● Sticking ● Collage ● Drawing with templates & stencils ● Create with dough ● Make own music & songs. Dancing ● Movements with music
