This circle time activity encourages children to learn about people who help us in the community and for children to use the new vocabulary they are learning. This activity can lead to fantastic discussions about people who help us and what they do, key objects they may use and children may even talk about their own experiences.

Objectives:
Children in Reception
Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important (CL)
Learn new vocabulary (CL)
Use new vocabulary through the day (CL)
Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences (CL)
Connect one idea or action to another using a range of connectives (CL)
Early Learning Goals
Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole-class discussions and small group interactions (CL)
Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary (CL)
Express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from their teacher (CL)
Talk about the lives of people around them and their roles in society (UW)...