Planning for Learning through Fairy Stories by Lesley Hendy

Author:Lesley Hendy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: EYFS, early, years, foundation, stage, planning, learning, theme, weekly, plans, development, activities, record, Early, Learning, Goals, statutory, skills, overview, topic, fairy, stories, ELG, once, upon, time, princess, jack, beanstalk
ISBN: 9781909101425
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2012
Published: 2012-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

Creative Development

Paint portraits of the seven dwarfs showing different expressions. (C2, 3)

Make the role-play corner into the seven dwarfs’ house. (C1)

Learn to sing the ‘Hi-Ho’ song from the Disney film. (C4, 5)

Make blot prints (see activity opposite). (C1)

Activity: Using mirrors in everyday life

Learning opportunity: Investigating how we use mirrors.

Early Learning Goal: Knowledge and Understanding of the World. Children should investigate objects... by using all of their senses as appropriate. They should look closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.

Resources: Plastic mirrors and safe reflecting objects, for example shiny metal spoons.

Organisation: Whole group.

Key vocabulary: Reflection, mirror, copy, image.

What to do: Show children the mirrors and ask what they think they could be used for, for example, brushing our hair, cleaning our teeth, painting our faces.

Encourage children to notice the way the image changes (everything is back to front).

Discuss other places where mirrors are used, for example on cars, on dangerous corners, by hairdressers.

Pass around the reflecting objects. Ask children what they see when they look at themselves in them. Is the image changed?

Activity: Making blot prints

Learning opportunity: To encourage children to look at pattern and symmetry.

Early Learning Goal: Creative Development. Children should explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two... dimensions.

Resources: Thick paint in different colours (let children mix their own); big paint brushes; sugar paper.

Organisation: Small groups with adult helper.

Key vocabulary: Mix, thick, spread, brush, fold, blot, smudee.

What to do: Fold sugar paper in half and put a crease down the middle. Unfold the paper and encourage children to work on the left-hand side of the crease.

Ask them to mix two or three colours into a thick paste. With a brush tell them either to put blobs of paint on the paper or to brush paint onto the paper.

Fold the paper again and press the two halves together. Unfold the paper to reveal the strange shape.

Encourage the children to compare the two halves of each blot print.

Display

Make a display of mirrors. Make question labels that invite children to experiment with reflections such as ‘Look in the mirror, can you touch your ear?’, ‘Lift your hand and ruffle your hair. What is happening in the mirror?’, ‘Can you find a way of looking behind you without looking round?’

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