Let’s ‘Play to Learn’
- Set out obstacles for the children to negotiate
- Encourage the children to move in a variety of ways
- Help children to develop an understanding of key words
- Children either collect or look out for dragons/eggs
Safety & Organisation
Ensure surfaces are safe for crawling
Three or four children to one obstacle
Encourage the children to:
- move slowly at first
- to take turns and not queue
- listen to instructions
- bend knees on landing when jumping from apparatus
Opportunities to
- negotiate large obstacles
- move in different ways
- develop positional language and understanding
Questions
- How did you use your arms to help you on the balance plank?
- How could you move differently?
- Did you take turns?
- How did you feel when you were in the tunnel?
- How did you move under the parachute?
- Where did you see an egg?
Can you see the child?
- Negotiating large obstacles easily
- Moving in a variety of ways
- Using positional language
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Most of the time
Encourage the child to:
- hold still shapes on or in the obstacles, e.g. straight, star, angry cat
- move backwards, e.g. along a balance plank, or crawl backwards through a tunnel
- improve their active observation skills by making the dragons/eggs/images around the course more difficult to find
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Sometimes
Encourage the child to:
- hold your hand
- discuss where they might place their hands and feet
- hide a dragon or an egg and use positional language to describe where they have hidden their egg
- practise skills using the Technical Skills Cards
- discuss options for how the obstacle could be negotiated
- construct their own obstacles