Nursery Class

Date 28/01/10
Adult led focus activity 1
Outline of Activity: Constructing musical
instruments and decorating them

Aspects of learning: Staff member:

CD Exploring Media & Materials/ Creating
Music & Dance
K&U Designing and Making
CLL Language for Thinking
PSRN Calculating
X: straw flutes (if not too tricky)
TA (inside/outside): yoghurt pot shakers
E : water flutes

Development Matters ( Learning Teaching strategies:

Intentions):
26-36 months Seek to make sense of what
they see, hear, smell, touch and feel
Are curious and interested in making things
happen
Use action, sometimes with limited talk,
that is largely concerned with the 'here
and now'
30-50 months Capture experiences and
responses with music, dance, paint and
other materials or words
Begin to try out a range of tools and
techniques safely
Talk activities through, reflecting on and
modifying what they are doing
40-60 months
Express and communicate their ideas,
thoughts and feelings by using a widening
range of materials, suitable tools,
imaginative and role-play, movement,
designing and making, and a variety of
songs and musical instruments
Construct with a purpose in mind, using a
variety of resources
Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify
thinking, ideas, feelings and events
Make music with instruments am. Remind
chn about Tashi's 'trumpet'. Favourite
song...5 monkeys? Play together with video.
Make own instruments: 1)Water flutes 2)
yoghurt pot shakers/drums 3)paper straw
flutes(challenging)
Vocabulary – blow (wind instruments)
hit/strike/tap (percussion instruments) shake
(percussion) empty, full, higher, lower, Feel
your voice box vibrate
Key Questions – What other instruments
can we make? How do you make the sound?
Is it full/empty (-er)? Louder? Quieter?
More? Less?
SEN/EAL – Non-Verbal prompts . Model
activity. Make

PSRN empty/full, louder quieter,

higher/lower
Target Group: Extension children:
Those children who show an interest and Make different types of instrument:
Named Children- bottles-more water higher? Less water
a,b,c,d,e lower? Different sounds with different
techniques?
Evaluation/Assessment Possible lines of development:

Didn't go well as children were too Decorate musical instruments:

energetic paint/glitter/glue (TA... inside/outside-
(how it went according to session plan) weather permitting)
(name children who were interested to be
included in the next session)
Adult led focus activity 2
Outline of Activity: Compare Oral reading
of 'where the Wild things are ' with
cartoon version

Aspects of learning: Staff member:

Communication Language & Literacy
Greg
Development Matters ( Learning Teaching strategies:
Intentions): Vocabulary – wild, boat , rumpus
30-50 months Key Questions –
SEN/EAL –
40-60 months

Target Group: Extension children:

Evaluation: Possible lines of development:

Adult led focus activity 3
Outline of Activity:

Aspects of learning: Staff member:

Development Matters ( Learning Teaching strategies:

Intentions): Vocabulary –
30-50 months Key Questions –
40-60 months SEN/EAL –

Target Group: Extension children:

Evaluation: Possible lines of development:

Indoor/Outdoor Weekly and Daily Plan
Highlighted = Activities planned in response to children’s interests Non-highlighted = activities planned
to ensure balance across the curriculum
Role of the
Adult
(Effective
Practice ):
Strategies for
the adult to
use
- Verbal
responses /
Non Verbal
responses /
Show genuine
interest /
Respect
children’s own
decisions and
choices /
Inviting
children to
elaborate
- Recapping :
encourage
children to
organise their
own experience
/ Offering
your own
experience
- Clarifying
ideas / Waiting
for a response
( count to
10) / Not
hurrying
children /
Suggesting
reminding
- Using
specific praise
to encourage
further
thinking /
Offering an
alternative
point of view /
Speculating -
what might
happen if / Be
creative – lets
pretend to
-
Reciprocating /
Asking open
questions /
Reflect
together on
shared
experiences /
Modeling and
demonstrating
thinking – think
out loud
Date: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Adult Roles:

Reading 1:1
Children’s
Needs,
interests and
schemas –what
we observed
Changes
throughout
the week
(e.g. info. from
parents,
spontaneous
events)
Malleable

Creative

Role play -
shopping
Post Office

Construction

Science
Investigation

Graphics

Music/Dance

ICT+
interactive
whiteboard

Support Groups

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday