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Taking Maths Outdoors – Mathematics Guidance And Activities For EYFS Bring your teaching of numeracy outside, suggests Judith Dancer, and you can draw on a range of creative and imaginative – not to mention messy – ways to get children building up their maths skills. Here are just a few suggestions…

The Power Of Picture Books – Teaching Guidance For EYFS Literacy Anjali Patel explores what makes picture books such a uniquely powerful tool for fostering literacy, and offers some advice for getting the most out of them.

What Can You Hear? – EYFS Listening Activities Kate Freeman presents a series of activities and tips aimed at helping practitioners develop the listening skills of children from birth to the age of 5.

Continuing Support – SEN Advice And Guidance For EYFS Kathy Brodie presents a primer on what practitioners should do to ensure their setting’s environment meets the needs of children with both diagnosed and undiagnosed special educational needs.

Recipe For Success – Food And Nutrition Activity For EYFS When it comes to teaching your children about cooking, asks Adele Devine, why limit them to handling mixing bowls and making sweets? Give each child their own set of utensils and see how they get on with these two recipes for ‘Sunshine pies’ and ‘Tuna fishcakes’…

Putting Food First – Case Study And Curry Recipe For EYFS Nigel Denby examines how Surbiton Children’s Centre set about improving their food offering by investing in a purpose-built kitchen and giving their lunch menu a radical, early years-oriented overhaul – plus, a delicious recipe for a fruity chicken and vegetable curry, courtesy of project lead Lilly Judd.

Real World Role Play – Cross-curricular Activities For EYFS Keeping the scanarios of your setting’s role play activities relatively grounded can make your children’s learning that little bit more meaningful and practical, but no less imaginative, advises Kirstine Beeley…

Simple Solutions – Problem Solving Advice And Activities For EYFS Maths Familiarise children with the principles of solving maths problems early on in their learning development, and they’ll soon discover that mathematical investigation and exploration is nothing to be scared of, says Judith Dancer.

Pirate Investigators – Cross-curricular activities for EYFS Judith Harries explains how a ‘pirates’ setting can serve as a rich backdrop to an impressively diverse range of learning activities for different ages – from painting treasure, to learning about the importance to caterpillars of effective camouflage… Browse more ideas for Talk Like a Pirate Day.

On The Move – Kinaesthetic Learning Activities For EYFS Kirstine Beeley examines the role that children’s physical development and wellbeing can play in helping to them build a broader knowledge and understanding of the world around them.

Mud, Glorious Mud – Messy Play Ideas And Advice For EYFS Ros Harker pays homage to the multifarious uses, enduring appeal and modest cost of that trusty messy play standby – glorious mud!

Lots To Talk About – Speech, Language And Communication Resource For EYFS Expert guidance aimed at childcare practitioners on how to change a setting’s environment and interact with children so as to develop their speech and language skills.

Make & Sell – Fundraising Advice For EYFS Judith Harries offers some tips on how to raise funds for your setting by showcasing your children’s creativity through holding art exhibitions, creating greetings cards and selling hand-crafted goods.

Literacy Through Music – Cross-Curricular Activities For EYFS English And Music Maria Kay presents an 8-part series of articles, exploring how children’s music and literacy skills can be developed through a mix of cross-curricular activities involving singing, chanting and playing an instrument.

Learning To Let Go – Attachment Disorder Strategies For EYFS Sue Cowley offers some advice to early years settings on how to support their most persistently clingy children. Read more about attachment disorder in children.

Join Our Club – Lunch Club Case Study And Pasta Recipe For EYFS Nigel Denby looks at how a children’s centre in Hillingdon, London is supporting vulnerable families with a regular Lunch Club that involves a mix of free hot food and opportunities to connect with others – plus, a tasty pasta recipe from the Lunch Club’s regular chef, Sue White.

Help Them Be Healthy – Nutrition Advice And Activities For EYFS Natasha Gavin has made it her mission to help children overcome their wariness of natural, healthy food and embrace fruit and veg. If you’re keen to do the same in your setting, these desensitisation techniques and motivational strategies are a great place to start.

Creative Storytelling – Teaching Suggestions And Lesson Activities For EYFS Literacy Tonya Meers explains the thinking behind ‘Creative storytelling‘ – an approach to teaching literacy that sees children interacting with puppets, models and other objects in order to engage more fully with a story’s message and emotional impact.

Glorious Colours – Activity Ideas For EYFS Art And Messy Play In this cross-curricular activities guide, Karen Hart shows how having your children explore the concept of colour can help develop their skills not just in art, but also maths, language, science and problem solving.

Early Investigations – Activity Ideas For EYFS Science Give your children an early grounding in the scientific method with these engaging play-based science activities devised by Kirstine Beeley.

Concrete Jungles – Outdoor Learning Suggestions For EYFS Even the coldest, hardest and greyest playground can play host to various creative and nature-based learning opportunities, says Kirstine Beeley – all it requires is a bit of thought and imagination…

Confident Communicators – Speech And Language Activities For EYFS Foster your children’s ability to speak, listen and understand language with these lively and imaginative activity ideas from Hilary White.

As Easy As Un, Deux, Trois – MFL Teaching Guidance For EYFS Practitioners don’t need extensive facility with a different language to get children speaking it, says Alison Joyce Bourchier – just a few basic words and a bit of imagination can go a surprisingly long way…

Ants In Their Pants – Seating Behaviour Resource For EYFS Sue Cowley offers some suggestions on how you can encourage children to sit still – without resorting to extreme measures…

Christmas around the world – Info and activities for EYFS We’re all familiar with the festive traditions of the UK, but how do others celebrate Christmas around the world? This PDF sets out how people celebrate Christmas in: Turkey Russia India Australia Italy Germany Sweden The Netherlands Mexico Accompany the stories of Christmas around the world with practical activities, also included on the PDF. Christine […]

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