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