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. PHYSICAL 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 multicultural festivals. Ideas include making and hoisting Sikh flags (Baisakhi); a fun in the sun game (Summer) making festive sticks and inventing a simple dance (Navaratri); making and playing snowman skittles (Winter) as well as a range of ideas covering many well-known and lesser-known festivals. Supporting photocopiables will include activity sheets, games, poems 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 .

Lesley Clark is a lecturer at the Reading and Information Centre at the University of Reading. She is an experienced early years teacher and has written for the Themes for Early Years; Starting With Story and Skills for Early Years series. Pauline Kenyon is an early years consultant and registered inspector. She has been Senior Primary Inspector for Dudley LEA, a primary and nursery registered inspector and OFSTED accredited trainer. Jenny Morris is an early years teacher who has run her own nursery. She is the regular contributor of the Story Box series of articles in Nursery Projects and has written for the 'Themes for Early Years' and 'Starting with Story' series for Scholastic. Jenny Tulip is a much-loved children's artist, with over 25 years' experience of creating children's books and stationery.