All About Us: Activities for 3-5 Year Olds contains enjoyable play activities designed to develop important preschool skills and positive relationships and are linked to the Early Learning Goals of the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage, revised by the Department of Education for September 2012. All About Us looks at the child in his or her environment and explores the child's world. The practical activities include ideas for helping children to describe themselves and others, to explore and express their feelings in a variety of ways and to develop sensitivity to others' needs and feelings. The activities will encourage children to develop consciousness of their own personal attitudes and feelings, and lead to an understanding of the relationship between the child, the people he or she lives with and the immediate community. The practical activities include: describing what we are like; recording voices; caring for someone else; keeping safe; working in a team; and being aware of other people. All the books in the Activities for 3-5 Year Olds Series contain tried-and-tested activities, linked to the Early Learning Goals of the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage, revised by the Department of Education for September 2012. They are an invaluable resource of fun, easy-to-use ideas for all early years settings, from preschools and nurseries to reception classes and day nurseries.

 

This book is part of a book series called Activities For 3-5 Year Olds .

This book is at the foundation stage (early years) of the key stage system. The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) covers children from birth to age 5 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in preschool.

This book was published 2012 by Brilliant Publications .

A member of the Society of Authors, with over 60 titles to her name, Irene Yates has also written for the Times Education Suppliment, Scholastic Teachers' Magazine and BBC Schools' Radio. An expert in literacy and language development, she became a writing member of the first SCAA KS1 Test Development Team, and contributed to the Reading Tests in 1995, 1996 and 1997. She also visits schools reqularly as a Writer and Poet, and runs teacher training days in all aspects of language development, particularly literacy.