Learning goal
- To understand that the environment around us changes as time passes.
EYFS outcomes
Development matters
Understanding the world
- Compare and contrast characters from stories, including figures from the past.
Characteristics of effective learning
- Playing and exploring.
- Active learning.
- Creating and thinking critically.
See Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance).
Understanding the World
ELG: Past and Present
- Understand the past through settings, characters, and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling.
See Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage, 2021.
Support and challenge
Adults can use the opportunity to discuss and/or support with:
- Explaining the meaning of words from the story again using a list of definitions so that everyone uses consistent language – repetition is key for some children.
- Challenging the children to consider whether any of the pictures should go into both boxes and to justify why an item was used in the past and the present (e.g. a hoop was a metal Victorian toy used in the past but we still have hoops today made from plastic).
Vocabulary
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cart
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fan
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hoop
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new
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old
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past
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present
