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!
MEMORY GAMES
MAIN ACTIVITY
- Give your child the following three or four short commands:
– Touch your toes
– Point to your nose
– Turn around
– Jump - Repeat the commands and ask your child to picture the movements. Your child may find it helpful to repeat back the instruction in turn.
- Finally, get your child to carry out the actions in order.
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY MORE CHALLENGING?
- Don’t repeat the commands or give any other prompts.
- Increase the number of commands.
- Swap roles and get your child to give the instructions.
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY EASIER?
- As you give the instructions, demonstrate the actions.
- Get your child to do each action as you say it, before they have a go on their own.
- Give fewer instructions.
- Give three instructions and make the first and last one the same. For example, ‘Pat your head, turn around, pat your head.’
SIMILAR GAMES
- https://childhood101.com/short-term-memory-games/https://www.happyclicks.net/memory-games/index.php
Dinosaur Lotto game:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Orchard-Toys-Dinosaur-Lotto-Game/dp/B0785NCGCT?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1
Jungle Heads and Tails:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Orchard-Toys-Jungle-Heads-Tails/dp/B07GJYWTM8?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1
Memory Maze (for age 6+):
https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/memory-maze/0035594002673.html
IN MY BAG I HAVE PACKED...
MAIN ACTIVITY
- For this activity you need to take it in turns.
- The first person says, “In my bag I packed a ball.”
- The second person then says, “In my bag I packed a ball and a doll.
- Then the first person continues the list, “In my bag I packed a ball, a doll and a car.
- You continue taking turns until someone forgets an item!
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY MORE CHALLENGING?
- Increase the number of items that you need to remember.
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY EASIER?
- Draw pictures to help you remember.
GUESS WHAT IT IS
MAIN ACTIVITY
- Place some pictures face down, you may find the pictures below helpful.
- Choose a picture and describe what you can see without telling your child what it is.
- Ask your child to guess what you are looking at. If they get it right they can keep the card. The one with the most cards at the end wins.
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY MORE CHALLENGING?
- Turn the game into a points game. Give the hardest clue first. If they guess with this, they earn three points.
- If they need another clue, give it to them – this is worth two points if they get it right.
- If they need the third and easiest clue, they get one point if they get it right.
- Swap roles and ask your child to give the clues while you guess.
HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTIVITY EASIER?
- Give the most obvious information first (e.g for a banana ‘It is yellow’)
- Add the first letter – ‘It begins with ‘b’ ’
- Stick to objects/animals etc that the child is familiar with.
