Activity 3: My life timeline

Creating a timeline, developing an understanding of personal chronology.

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Learning goal

  • To begin to recognise the order events happen.

EYFS outcomes

Development matters

Understanding the world

  • Comment on images of familiar situations in the past.

Characteristics of learning

  • Active learning.
  • Creating and thinking critically.

See Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance).

Understanding the World

ELG: Past and Present

Children at the expected level of development will:

  • Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.

See Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage, 2021.

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Support and challenge

Adults can use the opportunity to discuss and/or support with:

  • Encouraging the children to listen to the labels being read out on an audio playback device to remind them of the chronological order.
  • Providing the children with the Activity: My life’s timeline (extension) and challenge them to draw and/or write their ideas in the boxes.

 

 

Vocabulary

  • after

  • a long time ago

  • baby

  • before

  • child

  • I remember

  • now

  • order

  • past

  • present

  • then

  • toddler

  • when I was little

Curriculum opportunities

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In this topic

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Kapow Primary, 
History specialist
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