DLP'S BIG IDEAS
At Eastwards Consortium, our focus is primarily on educating and developing the next generation of our society. To assist in this, we use our well-known ‘Big Book of Ideas’, a set of activities and tasks focused around pupil development.
Below you will find a set of tabs which depict these tasks further. If you find children are struggling with a task or, on the other hand, passing with flying colours, indications and suggestions are proposed in each section to ensure you keep all children challenged and on-task as much as possible.
To view these sections, simply click on the respective tab and watch it magically appear!
FAMILIAR NOISES IN THE ENVIRONMENT
MAIN ACTIVITY
- Sit together in a quiet room and talk about the sounds that you can hear around you. For example, cars on the road, birds singing etc.
- Find a noisy toy and hide it in the room. Support your child to find the object.
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY MORE CHALLENGING?
- Support the child to listen and show you what he/she hears.
- When hiding the noisy toy to find, cover the toy completely so that the child cannot find it.
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY EASIER?
- Draw attention to the sounds you hear by pointing where the sounds come from.
- Give a picture prompt to help.
NURSERY RHYMES ARE THE GREATEST FUN!
MAIN ACTIVITY
- Sing nursery rhymes together with your child. For example, ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat,’ ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.’
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY MORE CHALLENGING?
- Choose more challenging nursery rhymes. For example, ‘Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush.’
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY EASIER?
- Focus on one nursery rhyme at a time.
- Sing face-to-face with your child to support with rhyming patterns.
- Sing the nursery rhymes at incidental times. For example, in the bath or in the shops.
TURN TAKING
MAIN ACTIVITY
- Play a simple turn-taking game like rolling a ball between you. Try to choose an activity that would be of high interest to the child.
- Once the child understands the game, then use the following terminology: ‘Ready, steady, go!’
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY MORE CHALLENGING?
- Increase the range of games that you play with the child.
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY EASIER?
- Play games where the turns are shorter.
- Gently hold your child’s hand to ensure that they wait their turn.