These 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 workout 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 storylines in their pretend play (EAD)
Recognise that people have different beliefs and celebrate special times in different ways (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)
Make use of props and materials when role playing characters in narratives and stories (EAD)...