(PDF) Foundation Stage, Early Years: Learning Through Play
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POSSIBLE<br />
EXPERIENCES<br />
Experimental <strong>Play</strong> – moulding<br />
INTENDED LEARNING<br />
OUTCOMES<br />
• develop manipulative skills –<br />
filling the bucket, turning it<br />
over, making sand castles<br />
• investigate if it is possible to<br />
make a sand castle using the<br />
various shapes of containers<br />
• discuss why it works/does not<br />
work<br />
• compare the shapes made<br />
• talk about the best size of<br />
spade to fill the various sizes<br />
of containers (large<br />
spade/large container)<br />
• explore and represent familiar<br />
objects in 3D form<br />
• recognise and name basic<br />
shapes<br />
• link sand play to a nursery<br />
rhyme e.g. Jack and Jill<br />
• develop 1 – 1 correspondence<br />
DAMP/WET SAND PLAY<br />
ACTIVITIES<br />
• fill containers using hands and<br />
spades<br />
• make sand castles using<br />
damp and wet sand and<br />
various wide-necked<br />
containers<br />
• look at the shapes made<br />
when the container is emptied<br />
• fill trays to make “buns”<br />
• Five Currant Buns – mix up<br />
sand and pebbles and make<br />
currant buns<br />
LEARNING THROUGH SAND PLAY<br />
PROGRESSION PROVISION<br />
• read stories about building<br />
sites. Add builders’ overalls,<br />
builders’ hats for children to<br />
wear<br />
• make sand wetter/drier<br />
• match the shape of the<br />
container to the shape of the<br />
sand castle<br />
• provide a set of commercial<br />
shapes for filling e.g. bricks,<br />
sand shapes set (NES Arnold),<br />
fruit, transport, hands and feet<br />
moulds<br />
• recite nursery rhymes<br />
• introduce appropriate<br />
resources to re-enact rhymes<br />
in the sand tray<br />
• sand trays (large/small)<br />
spades of various sizes<br />
• containers with wide openings<br />
e.g. plant pots, mixing bowls,<br />
saucepans, margarine tubs,<br />
tipper trucks, bun trays<br />
• pebbles<br />
• coloured sand<br />
• Delta Sand (Hope Education)