Play activity 5 - weigh it up - Early Years Foundation Stage

How the weigh it up activity contributes to the Early Years Foundation Stage

Communication language and literacy

• Gains attention and makes contact
• Increasingly moves arms and legs to reach and grasp
• Responds when spoken to
• Shows anticipation of familiar games and toys
• Makes sounds for social interaction
• Is intrigued by the novelty of the events and actions around them
• Is able to respond to simple requests and gain meaning from context

Physical development

• Responds to differences in the environment
• Links with the environment through movement and sensory information
• Watches and explores, patting and dropping activities

Knowledge and understanding of the world

• Responds to the world creatively
• Responds and thrives on warm sensitive contact and care
• Reaches out, touches and begins to hold objects
• Sometimes focuses enquiries on particular features

Creative development

• Connects to the environment through movement and sensory experience
• Responds to what they see, hear, touch and feel
• Responds to familiar sounds

Personal social and emotional development

• Develops understanding and awareness of self
• Explores new toys but keeps checking back with adult
• Begins to move to music

Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy

• Responds to people and objects challenging their expectations
• Notices changes in groupings of objects
• Has some understanding that things exist when they cannot see them
• Develops a comprehension around toys by handling objects
• Enjoys putting objects in and out of containers
• Increasingly learns to classify toys
• Recognises as varied weights are contextually increased