Skills for Early Years
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This series of books provides ready-made ideas for developing all the essential skills within the Early Learning Goals and also many of those covered by the Baseline Assessment schemes. Each book takes one particular skill and includes double-page spreads of activity ideas. The left-hand page provides a practical group activity using resources typically found in any nursery setting. This is supported with a photocopiable activity on the right-hand page which consolidates the learning and provides an assessment record of each child's individual achievement. The final page contains a photocopiable Skills Development Chart to place in each child's personal portfolio. The ADDING AND SUBTRACTING book focuses on young children's counting, addition and subtraction skills in a variety of situations. Through rhymes, games and practical activities children will develop skills in counting one, then two more or less; combining two groups of objects and counting to find the total; taking objects away and counting how many are left and early work with double numbers to five. The activities include counting frogs, threading beads and taking slices of pizza.
There is a gradual progression of difficulty throughout the book.
There is a gradual progression of difficulty throughout the book.
This series of books provides ready-made ideas for developing all the essential skills within the Early Learning Goals and also many of those covered by Baseline Assessment schemes. Each book takes one particular skill and includes double-page spreads of activity ideas. The left hand page provides a practical group activity using resources typically found in any nursery setting. This is supported with a photocopiable activity on the right-hand page which consolidates the learning and provides an assessment record of each child's individual achievement. The final page contains a photocopiable Skills Development Chart to place in each child's persona; portfolio. Young children's PROBLEM-SOLVING skills develop alongside their natural curiosity and attempts to make sense of the world around them. This book focuses on developing children's problem-solving skills in a variety of cross-curricular situations.
Individual and whole group practical activities are used to give children opportunities to carry out tasks that include experimenting and working with materials,learning how to sort and classify information to find answers to simple questions and to find out how things work. The activities include making a jigsaw puzzle, planning a picnic and thinking about how we see in the dark. * Nothing like it for this age range * Assessment links * Photocopiable sheets * Skills an essential part of early learning * Based on the Early learning Goals * Skills Development chart
Individual and whole group practical activities are used to give children opportunities to carry out tasks that include experimenting and working with materials,learning how to sort and classify information to find answers to simple questions and to find out how things work. The activities include making a jigsaw puzzle, planning a picnic and thinking about how we see in the dark. * Nothing like it for this age range * Assessment links * Photocopiable sheets * Skills an essential part of early learning * Based on the Early learning Goals * Skills Development chart
The "Skills for Early Years" series provides ready-made ideas for developing all the essential skills within the Early Learning Goals standard and many of those covered by Baseline Assessment schemes. Photocopiable activities are included with each title. This particular title focuses on developing children's experience and understanding of comparing and measuring in a variety of situations. Individual and whole group practical skills are used to develop children's experiences of making visual and direct comparisons and to carry out simple measuring tasks using non-standard units of length, weight, capacity and time. The activities include comparing numbers of teddies, weighing potatoes, measuring strides and measuring ingredients to make simple peppermint creams.
This series of books provides ready-made ideas for developing all the essential skills within the Early Learning Goals and also many of those by the Baseline Assessment schemes. Each book takes one particular skill and includes double-page spreads of activity ideas. The left-hand page provides a practical group activity using resources typically found in any nursery setting. This is supported by a photocopiable activity on the right-hand page, which consolidates the learning and provides an assessment record of each child's individual achievement. The final page contains a photocopiable Skills Development Chart to place in each child's personal portfolio. The PATTERNS book focuses on developing children's experience and understanding of pattern in a variety of situations. Children are introduced to recognising, copying and continuing simple repeating patterns. Different types of decorative patterns are also explored, along with the techniques that can be used to create chequerboard, turning, symmetrical and stacking patterns. The activities include creating a zig-zag dragon, designing wallpaper and looking at honeycomb patterns.