Planning for Learning through Farms by Rachel Sparks Linfield

Author:Rachel Sparks Linfield
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, farm, ELG, farmers, grow, harvest, market, animals, machines, tools, vehicles
ISBN: 9781909101449
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2012
Published: 2012-12-10T00:00:00+00:00

Activity: Taking care of farms

Learning opportunity: Making decisions about what is right and wrong.

Early Learning Goal: Personal, Social and Emotional Development. Children should work as part of a group or class taking turns and sharing fairly, understanding that there needs to be agreed values and codes of behaviour for groups of people, including adults and children, to work together harmoniously. They should understand what is right, what is wrong and why. They should consider the consequences of their words and actions for themselves and others.

Resources: A4 paper; crayons, pencils and pens.

Organisation: Whole group.

Key vocabulary: Countryside code, behave, right, wrong, why.

What to do: Talk about the Countryside Code. Encourage children to understand why it can be dangerous to drop litter; why gates should be shut and how crops might be damaged if people take short cuts across fields. Ask for suggestions of other things that should be done to take care of farms.

As a group, write a Farm Code. As well as things that take care of the farm include rules such as washing hands after touching animals. Ask children to make posters to show one aspect of the group’s Farm Code.

Display

In a role-play area, display the brick rubbings as an outside of a farm building. At floor level, put up the farmhouse books. In front, put out some toy farm animals and a tractor. Use the display for activities involving counting, using positional language to describe where to park the tractor and playing ‘I spy’. Put up the Farm Code posters nearby. Involve children in choosing appropriate colours of papers on which to mount the posters.

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