These editable challenge cards are designed to extend children's thinking and narrative when they are exploring the small world area. Use a talking peg to encourage independence, and allow children to explore a different situation or problem scenario for them to solve with their characters.
Objectives
Children in Reception:
Learn new vocabulary (CL)
Use new vocabulary through the day (CL)
Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences (CL)
Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities, and to explain how things work and why they might happen (CL)
Think of the perspectives of others (PSE)
Develop their small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently (PD)
Develop storylines in their pretend play (EAD)
Recognise some environments are different to the one in which they live (UW)
Early Learning Goals
Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary (CL)
Work and play cooperatively and take turns with others (PSE)
Invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and their teacher (EAD)...