AROUND THE YEAR will provide practical activities to support the Early Learning Goals. The books will provide a collection of ideas to use throughout the year based on both seasonal opportunities and dates linked to festivals. Supporting photocopiables will include activity sheets and new poems, stories and songs. The books will be suitable for practitioners working with 3-5 year olds. MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT will provide practical activities, to support the Early Learning Goals, with a collection of ideas to use throughout the year based on both seasonal opportunities and dates linked to specific festivals. Ideas include matching animals to their young (Spring), racing boats and ordering them for the Dragon Boat Race (Summer), sorting candles for a Divali celebration (Autumn) and using pattern to design a prayer mat for Eid-ul-Fitr (Winter). Supporting photocopiables will include activity sheetts games, stories and songs. The book will be suitable for practitioners working with 3-5 year olds. *Comprehensive pack to deliver ELGs *Nothing like it for this age range *All practitioners use festivals and seasonal ideas *Based on the Early Learning Goals *Provides ideas for a whole year *Photocopiable sheets.

 

This book is part of a book series called Around the Year .

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Scholastic .

Jacquie Finlay is a Reception class teacher who has written extensively for Scholastic's early years list. Therese Finlay is a Reception teacher who has written extensively for Scholastic's early years list. Jenni Tavener is a reception teacher, writer and mother of two young children. She has written for Child Education, Infant Projects and Nursery Education magazines and is the author of a wide range of Scholastic early years books. She is a regular contributor to Early Years Activity Bank. Irene Yates was a primary school teacher and is now an educational consultant and writer, and Writer-in-Schools. She has written for Scholastic for many years. She is the author of over 120 books for other publishers as well as radio programmes for BBC Radio Education department.