It’s the time of year when many of our children will experience going on holiday with their family. Whether this is visiting family and friends who live in other parts of the country, camping trips, or visiting somewhere that needs to be travelled to on a ship, train or plane.
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Every moment in a child’s life is an opportunity for learning, exploration, and self-discovery, which later helps them learn how to integrate into the society they live in, work in and create. A person’s profession or career is one of the fundamental components of their life, and we often think about them either consciously or unconsciously starting from childhood.
Most young children are interested in what adults do and will often try to incorporate what they have learnt into their role play. They pretend to be everything from a parent feeding a baby, to a vet examining a sick animal.
Finding out about adults’ jobs provides children with many learning opportunities, especially if they are able to watch or participate in some way.
In nursery this term, we will not only focus on traditional roles from ‘people who help us’ such as firefighters, doctors, teachers and police officers etc, but we hope to include plenty of other occupations that will help our children to gain a better understanding of the world around them.
There are many benefits to this, and in particular our project this term encourages;
Language
There are lots of opportunities for children to develop their vocabulary, as many occupations will use words or phrases that are specific for tasks – such as ‘sponge’ and ‘squidgee’ for a window cleaner or ‘prescription’ and ‘tablets’ for a pharmacist.
Children may also use language to ask questions and make links between their own experiences and what they have seen or heard.
People and communities
Many of the roles that we might look at will have some meaning for children. They might include the local hairdresser or post office workers. Sometimes the people who work there may be family or friends from their local community. By looking at such occupations, children increase their sense and understanding of their world.
Literacy
There are many opportunities to highlight literacy when looking at jobs and occupations, as most job roles involve some form of reading or writing. For some children, seeing how reading and writing occurs in the grown-up world can provide them with an impetus for their own developing early skills.
Mathematics
From looking at adults’ jobs and occupations children can see different aspects of mathematics in the real world. This might include hearing numbers, counting where money changes hands, and also for occupations such as furniture removal where shapes and sizes need to be considered.
Overcoming fears
Some of the occupations we might look at could be people who the children may come across in their lives that can sometimes make them feel worried or frightened eg dentists, fire fighters etc Learning something about how these people can help us, can help children to overcome their fears. Looking at the equipment they may use to do their jobs can help to familiarise our children with what they might expect to see and hear in strange, new environments.
Technology
Our children are growing up in a world full of technology. They take many of the tools, devices and systems that they see around them for granted. We will be giving the children the opportunity to think about how this technology may be used by people working in places such as airports, garages and shops.
Aspiration
Finally, learning about adult occupations and roles can be enlightening for some children and, who knows, may prove to be a source of inspiration. This is particularly beneficial for children who may have limited knowledge of different job roles.
Home learning
For many parents, things such as having a key cut, waiting for a bus or having a boiler serviced may not seem very notable. You may not realise that watching these things happen and listening to the language used around them, can increase children’s vocabulary and knowledge of the world. We hope that our project this term will help you to look at some of the hidden learning opportunities that exist as part of family life.
Your input will really help this project to come alive for the children. We would like to encourage as many of you as possible to come into nursery during the term to give the children a little talk about the jobs that you do. Diversity is the key – we can guarantee our little ones will be thrilled to hear all about your jobs and occupations. If you use specialist equipment, and are able to bring any in for the children to see, we would really welcome this.
Please speak to a teacher if you would like to help us with our project. We’re really looking forward to hearing all about it!
So why do we teach young children about music at all?
Exposing children to music during early development helps them learn the sounds and meanings of words. Dancing to music helps children build motor skills while allowing them to practice self-expression. For children (and adults), music helps strengthen memory.
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Each term at Chrysalis we choose a project that we can loosely base our learning on during the weeks ahead. We like the children to feel really involved with their project, and choose topics that they are interested in, and want to know more about.
We will be starting off with a very popular project which is perfect for us to learn about your child, and your child to learn about us. Friends old and new will discover each other, and the things that we like and don’t like.
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