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Connect what is grown on a farm with what animals eat and what the farm shop sells, in more activities from Helen Shelbourne Develop children's understanding of life on a farm through using small-world resources and other kinds of role play.

Develop children's understanding of life on a farm through using small-world resources and other kinds of role play.

Approach

Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage (page 11) emphasises the importance of providing children with a balance of adult-led and child-initiated learning. This project therefore:

* identifies adult-led activities to introduce or develop children's understanding of the topic through stimulating, meaningful experiences which offer challenge.

* suggests ways to enhance areas of core provision to consolidate children's learning about the theme. It is the practitioner's role to observe children's learning daily to inform individual children's Profiles and future planning. Children should be encouraged to use available resources to support their own learning, so the possible learning outcomes will be wide-ranging and varied for each child.

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