Guest Posted October 15, 2007 Posted October 15, 2007 Hi guys, I was interested to read about the planning that some of you do around books. Would this be an appropriate method in a pre-school where most of the children are under 4, or is it mostly for in reception classes. Sally
Susan Posted October 15, 2007 Posted October 15, 2007 Many preschools are working in a more child initiated way but if your story is appropriate there is no reason why this shouldn't be ok and you can follow the children's interests from it.
Annie-pops Posted October 15, 2007 Posted October 15, 2007 Hi - we had a go at planning (loosely!) around books last year(playgroup: children 2.5 - 4 years) and it worked really well as we chose stories which were already established favourites, particularly, Dear Zoo, Hungry Caterpillar and Going on a Bear Hunt - so in this respect it fitted in with a child-led planning ethos; it formed a thread which ran alongside other planning around individual and group interests, if that makes sense! In fact, a lot of child initiated activity came out of the stories (e.g. the role play cave area really fed the children's imaginative play and language, and led to a lot of play with torches and den-making!)
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