Activities to Promote the EYFS

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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