Hi, planning activities depends on so many other aspects of your practice - planning requirements/ resources you have available / the children's developmental needs / the setting's layout, that it can be a little hard to suggest ideas you'd find immediately useful.
Many activities are quite holistic, each will help to cover all learning areas. Maybe dough play, ice, bubble blowing, digging with different tools, collecting items or stacking & building?
Mirrors +
bath crayons in a water tray would help cover mark making and
PSED by exploring faces, facial expression, meanings, and the relationships children maintain/build on through their play with, or alongside others cooperatively or in conflict.
Creative development is expressed through personal interpretation, design, shape, colour - splashing the water to watch the formation of ripples, moving the mirrors to explore their properties - height, weight, slimness, width, decoration, what they're made of, what that feels like, use of crayon to express an individuals creativity.
Physical development in moving or standing at the tray alone or in company, using fine motor skills to hold & control the tools provided.
KnUW how mirrors reflect and water distorts.
Culturally, the use of mirrors is sometimes discouraged, some find mirrors intimidating or intrusive. It can be customary to cover mirrorss when families are in mourning -
Mirrors on wikipedia
Ask where or if mirrors appear in the children's homes - bathroom, dressing table, outside on a car.
ICT can be introduced at a most basic level if using a button/latch/lever type crayons that raises and lowers the mark making substance inside.
If you have a range of mirrors in frames, compare the diversity of them, see which parts are similar, same and the differences.
Mathmatical , reasoning & problem solving use positional language such as above & below the water, on & off a surface.
Using numbered sequins or
confetti will help the children access number formations - adult/peer intervention will help rote & ordering the numbers into appropriate sequences.
Communication, Language & literacy - mirrors provide a means to examine communication - mouth that talks, eyes that see, ears that hear, nose that smells, fingers that feel, how do I look, how does someone else look, are they cross, happy, smiling or sad. Name emotions, discuss language as a means to communciate, make observations, raise and answer questions .. 'It's good to tell others how we feel'. 'I like knowing you're happy' 'I like knowing when you're sad' 'The blue crayon reminds me of cold winter' 'which crayon do you like?
You can support children's schema with mirrors or reflective surfaces by positioning them above to look up into - orientation, rotation.. using mirrors in this way also transforms a viewers perspective, watch for dripping water
. Strategically position the mirror to identify aspects of the room & the people that are behind the viewer .. Encourage visual and tactile tracking/trajectory schema by following the directions or paths of the floating objects, maybe predict destinations ..
To extend focus and add interest maybe float cupcake cases that have a few
sequins inside. Catch the cases on the surface of the mirrors, draw around them maybe with the crayons. Scoop up escaped sequins and see if any sink, maybe notice what happens to paper cases once they've been in contact with & absorbed a quantity of water .. for additional sensory, mechanisms that support ICT & physical dexterity provide some squirty foam/cream cans and invite everyone to have a go ..
With it being tree season
could you get hold of an unwanted potted tree to use for dressing? position outside somewhere accessible for everyone to pass by and decorate with streamers, tinsel, baubles, tags and labels. The items used to decorate could change per season or themed focus - colours, numbers, shapes? A measuring rule added to the pot could help to show if the tree grows as quickly as the children caring for it do.
I hope this helps xx
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