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There are six areas of learning identified by the Curriculum Guidance. These areas of learning help practitioners guide planning of the learning environment and provide a framework for the early years curriculum. In my setting we use topics to organise the children's learning and each topic is divided into activities that promote the six areas. Appendix 3 contains examples of the Topic, 'Houses', recently covered in my setting. Each plan contains a list of activities that can involve children in groups, individually or in pairs. The learning intention is identified and a list of required resources identified. Although we provide different resources for the different topics some areas of play remain the same e.g water and sand play to provide security and reassurance with equipment being kept in the same place so that the children know where to get it and where to return it to.
> When planning to meet developmental needs, it is important to focus on helping children to become resilient learners, to enjoy and to feel that they are people that can learn. By supporting children's dispositions they 'can approach activities in ways that allow them to open to the learning opportunities to be found in them.' (Reader 2 Page 8). In Observation 2 'F' displayed a difficulty in engaging and playing with the other children. In planning to meet her individual needs and those of a group as a whole I would introduce some small - world play, small figures or play people. This type of play gives children the opportunity to control others, which can sometime make them feel powerful and sometimes help them imagine different points of view. I have watched children create characters within small- world play and acknowledge that they can be quite destructive, hitting or killing their characters, I feel it is beneficial to let children play in this way as it allows them to develop a sense of power and is an outlet for negative and angry feelings to be explored and safely released. Some...