Activity 4: Toy box

Observing a range of toys; recognising similarities and differences between the past and present.

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Learning goal

  • To identify toys from the past.

EYFS outcomes

Development matters

Understanding the world

  • Comment on images of familiar situations in the past.

Characteristics of learning

  • Playing and exploring.
  • Active learning.

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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Before the lesson

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Teacher notes

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Activity

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Support and challenge

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

  • Asking the children to recall the names of the toys.
  • Ordering three toys chronologically from what they used as a baby, a toddler and now.

Vocabulary

  • a long time ago

  • baby

  • child

  • old

  • new

  • now

  • past

  • present

  • then

  • toddler

  • when I was little

Curriculum opportunities

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In this topic

Created by:
Kapow Primary, 
History specialist
Activity 3: My life timeline Previous Lesson
Activity 5: Spot the difference Next Lesson

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