Programme of Work

Exploring Media and Materials:

• Activities allowing children to explore and make objects using a wide variety of materials including: playdough, clay, plasticene, soap flake mix,  soap snow, cornflour mix, wet and dry sand, moulding sand.
• Collage activities such as: collaged shapes, texture collage, paper collage, paper sculpture, paper bag puppets, paper plate faces, kites, hats, snakes, stained glass, sand collage, cardboard, badges, slot and slit shapes, glasses, nature garden, junk models.
• Drawing activities using chalk, charcoal, pastels, rubbings, felt-tips, crayon and wax resist,  templates, carbon copies, aqua crayons.
• Painting activities using a variety of techniques including: finger painting, powder paint in shakers, spray paints, squeeze bottle paints, paint and scrape, block painting, butterfly pictures, twig painting, roller bottle painting, stencilling, marbling, bubbles painting, brush painting, dyeing.
• Printing activities including: foot prints, hand prints, clay prints, hand and knuckle prints, fruit and vegetables, balloons, roller prints, card prints, ball prints, mesh dab prints, leaf prints, sponge prints, shoe prints, car rolling.

Music

• Individual free play with musical instruments,.
• Group free play with musical instruments.
• Moving to music.
• Listening to live musicians.
• Listening to recorded music.
• Listening to music from a variety of cultures.
• Discussion of feelings which result from different types of music.
• Singing.
• Musical accompaniment to stories.

Imagination

• Dressing-up games.
• Home corner.
• Role play with shops, post offices, doctor’s surgery etc.
• Imaginative play with dolls and models.
• Acting out and expanding on stories.
• Individual and group discussions about ‘what happened next’ at the end of a story.

Responding to experiences/Expressing and communicating ideas

• Individual discussion.
• Group discussion.
• Painting and drawing.
• Model making.
• Role play.
• Playing musical instruments and singing