Nursery World - Nursery activities (10)

Children in the Rainbow room at Rainbow Nursery, Middlestone Moor, have been learning about changes in their bodies as they are growing up. Their attractive display encourages them to explore changes in appearance and consider how the nursery babies have differing needs to their own. Planned learning intentions

Planned learning intentions

To make connections between different parts of their life experience

To use talk, actions and objects to recall and relive past experiences

To begin to differentiate between past and present

To make comparisons

Resources

Brightly coloured backing paper ,contrasting border roll ,white paper ,black paper ,photographs of nursery babies and children ,objects relating to three different age groups, 0-2, 2-3, 3-5 years, such as bottle, feeder cup, nappy, toys, books, clothes ,children's self-portraits and paintings of babies Step by step

* Prepare the backing paper and border. Cut out three black rectangles and space them evenly on the backing paper. Label the rectangles 'Things I need'. Attach a photograph of a child from each of the three age groups above each rectangle with the captions '0-2', '2-3', '3-5'.

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