Planning for Learning through Recycling 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, ELG, recycle, materials, re-use
ISBN: 9781909101685
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2012
Published: 2012-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

Activity: Making promise boxes

Learning opportunity: Talking about promises and feelings.

Early learning goal: Personal, Social and Emotional Development. Children should consider the consequences of their words and actions for themselves and others.

Resources: An example promise box, pencils, crayons, for each child a small box and small pieces of card.

Key vocabulary: Promise, box.

Organisation: Whole group introduction, small groups for the activity.

What to do: Talk to the children about promises and what it means if someone says ‘I promise’. Show the children a small box that has been decorated with stickers, sequins etc. From the box take out a piece of paper that says ‘I promise that I will hang up my coat each day on the peg.’ Ask why this promise is helpful. Ask for suggestions of things that the children could promise to do that would be helpful at home or within the group. Invite pairs of children to decorate boxes and to write or draw two promises on small pieces of card. Return to the boxes a week later to see whether the children have managed to keep their promises.

Activity: Turning boxes inside out

Learning opportunity: Talking about shapes and their properties.

Early learning goal: Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy. Use language such as ‘circle’ or ‘bigger’ to describe the shape and size of solids and flat shapes.

Resources: Masking tape, scissors and for each child a cereal packet or box from biscuits.

Key vocabulary: Shape, rectangle, square, side, face, corner, box, cuboid.

Organisation: Small group.

What to do: Show the group the boxes. Encourage them to notice their similarities and differences. Talk about the shapes of each face. Count the number of faces for each box and, also, the number of sides for each 2-d shaped face.

Demonstrate how to open the box out and to refold it, inside out, into a box with clean faces. Remake the box using masking tape. Show the children how they can anchor the end of the masking tape on the table, hold the reel in one hand and cut with their other. Ask each child to select a box to turn inside out. Explain that they will use the box later in the week to make a vehicle. As they work, encourage them to talk about the sizes of the boxes and to use the correct names for the shapes, faces etc.

Display

On a table put out the box and ideas list from the first activity. Over the week encourage the children to use the box for role-play and, also, to think up more uses for the box. Display the jewelry boxes on a table covered with black paper. Involve the children in the making of a sign to say ‘Please do not touch’. Explain that when the boxes go home the paper will be re-used in another activity or display. Put up the card patchworks as a giant collage. Outline each piece with black, border strip paper.

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