Petrol station/Shop.

Plan, Act and Do

Date: Week beginning 14/10/2013 Name(s): Small Group (Brock) Environment: Outdoors

Focus/ goals: This activity allows children to re-enact and role play the everyday experience of going to the petrol station and shop. This experience will encourage the children to interact with children outside of their friendship groups as well as the younger children from the three year old room. Children will need to compromise, take turns and work together. Materials: Shop and storage Pretend foods (chips, fruit salad, milkshakes, chocolates and wraps) Newspapers and magazines Hoses for petrol pump

Implementation: Group discussion at mat time about the experience, staff will ask the children questions such as who has been to a petrol station before? Have you been into the shop? What was in there? Etc. Once children are outside they may interpret the experience in different ways

Review and Reflect

How could I adapt my plans and practice? Including the children in the planning and construction of this activity. Allowing them to be involved in the decisions of how and where the shop should be set up to what foods the shop will have would prolong the experience. Getting the children to make the foods will give them a sense of achievement and they may have more respect for the environment and equipment in it.

Reflect and Review

Future planning: (continue, modify or extend) Introducing price tags and money would lead the activity into a mathematical experience encouraging children to recognise numbers and matching them up. Once they have grasped this concept you could introduce simple substraction.