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(PDF) Foundation Stage, Early Years: Learning Through Play

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POSSIBLE<br />

EXPERIENCES<br />

Free exploration<br />

using the senses<br />

Mark making<br />

and patterns<br />

INTENDED LEARNING<br />

OUTCOMES<br />

• be aware of the properties<br />

and texture of damp/wet sand<br />

• develop descriptive vocabulary<br />

– wet, cold, damp, hard, soft,<br />

squeezy, smooth, rough,<br />

bumpy<br />

• experience the therapeutic<br />

nature of playing with sand<br />

• develop fine motor skills to<br />

facilitate pre-writing<br />

• recognise and create patterns<br />

• develop vocabulary –<br />

describing what they are<br />

doing, describing the pattern<br />

• identify name and describe the<br />

natural materials and the<br />

patterns they make<br />

DAMP/WET SAND PLAY<br />

ACTIVITIES<br />

• explore the properties of sand<br />

by observation, touch and<br />

smell<br />

• sift sand through fingers<br />

• squeeze, dig, pile, pour, heap,<br />

scoop, pinch<br />

• stand, move feet in sand<br />

• make patterns with fingers –<br />

wiggly wavy, straight, zig zag,<br />

round<br />

• draw pictures in the sand<br />

• vary the actions to slow, fast,<br />

light, heavy<br />

• vary the actions but using a<br />

variety of natural materials to<br />

make marks and create<br />

patterns<br />

LEARNING THROUGH SAND PLAY<br />

PROGRESSION PROVISION<br />

• compare the properties of<br />

different types of sand – silver,<br />

coarse, coloured, dry sand<br />

• ask children to draw or paint<br />

the shapes/patterns they have<br />

made in the sand<br />

• finger painting<br />

• make a repeated pattern<br />

• make patterns moving from<br />

left to right<br />

• copy a pattern<br />

• begin to write letters<br />

• sand trays – large/small<br />

• sand trays<br />

• creative sand trays<br />

add natural materials –<br />

stones, shells, pebbles, twigs,<br />

off cuts of wood

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