Activities to promote Areas of Learning and Development at Daisycups
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 turns
* Celebrate achievement & birthdays
Activities to develop Communication, Language and Literacy
* Story Time (Children to make up own stories, tell their news)
* Spoken games about colours, shapes & opposites
* Nursery Rhymes
* Alphabet games and songs
*Tracing
* Copying
* Making marks on papers
*Writing: letters to friends, shopping list, own names, cards, labels, simple words
Activities to promote Mathematical development
* Card games with numbers
* Shopping (Play money)
* Labels of numbers for counting
* Sand / Water play for measuring
* Measuring for baking activites
* Songs with numbers in them
* Cars for measuring speed and distance
* Counting
* Sorting
* Matching
* Building with stickle bricks, duploi, wooden bricks, farm animals and zoo animals
*Threading buttons, Train track
Activities to promote Knowledge and Understanding of the World
* Activites 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 and 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
Activities to promote Physical Activities
* Climbing Frame (back garden /local park)
* Slide (back garden / local park)
* Swing ( Local park)
* Ball games
* Skittles / bowling
* Beans bags
* Hoops
* Balancing beams
* Tunnel
* Action games: Hopping, jumping, running
* Bikes / Cars
* Using tools and equipment to develop fine and gross motor skills
* Boucy castle
Activities to promote Creative Activities
* Drawing
* Colouring
* Printing
* Painting
* Sticking
* Collage
* Drawing with templates and stencils
* Create with dough
* Make own music and songs
* Dancing
* Movement with music
* Finger painting