Emma Cate Emma Cate

RWI Pocket Chart Organisation

This is how I like to organise pocket charts. It works a bit like a lesson plan for the teacher with the speed sounds lesson on top and book part of the lesson underneath.

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EYFS Emma Cate EYFS Emma Cate

Things EYFS Practitioners Want You To Know: Being Physical

An important part of the EYFS is purposeful play through physical means. Children are encouraged to be physically literate and should be encouraged to access situations where they are able to manage risk via energetic play. Instead of children recognising letters and sounds as they would in literacy terms; children instead build up a bank of movement. This starts first with learning simple actions which then progress into how those actions relate to each other leading to the creation of a vocabulary bank of movement and development of their own physicality.

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