Play activity 7 - dropping in - Early Years Foundation Stage

How the dropping in 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
• Explores, experiments, labels and expresses, touches and listens to sounds of toys
• Shows anticipation of familiar games and toys
• Deliberately reaches for familiar toys with interest
• Uses action, sometimes without words

Physical development

• Makes strong and purposeful movements
• Links with the environment through movement and sensory information
• Imitates and improves actions observed
• Watches and explores hands and feet
• Picks things up with hands and fingers

Knowledge and understanding of the world

• Responds to the world creatively
• Is excited by hide and find games like peek-a-boo
• Understands simple cause and effect

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
• Notices changes in groupings of objects
• Has some understanding that things exist when they cannot see them
• Understands their toys and what they can do through handling objects
• Enjoys putting objects in and out of containers
• Enjoys filling and emptying containers