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(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)

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