Give: Kind words

Learning how to be kind and what words are kind.

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Learning Objectives

  • To give kind words.

EYFS outcomes

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

ELG: Self-Regulation 

Children at the expected level of development will: 

  • Show an understanding of their own feelings and those of others, and begin to regulate their behaviour accordingly.

ELG: Building Relationships
Children at the expected level of development will:

  • Show sensitivity to their own and to others’ needs.

 

Expressive Arts and Design

ELG: Being Imaginative and Expressive

Children at the expected level of development will:

  • Invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and their teacher.

See Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage.

Non-statutory curriculum guidance

Characteristics of effective learning

  • Active learning.
  • Creating.
  • Thinking critically.

 

Communication and Language

Children in reception will be learning to:

  • Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important.
  • Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities, and to explain how things work and why they might happen.
  • Develop social phrases.

 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Children in reception will be learning to:

  • Build constructive and respectful relationships.
  • Express their feelings and consider the feelings of others.

 

Expressive Arts and Design

Children in reception will be learning to:

  • Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings.

See Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance).

 

British values

  • Mutual respect.

See Promoting fundamental British values as part of SMSC in schools (non-statutory advice).

Before the lesson

Print

Activity

Teacher notes

Key vocabulary

Prompts for learning

Observations

Next steps

  • Learning to give through sharing.
  • Note any specific next steps for individual children.
Created by:
Kapow Primary, 
Wellbeing specialist
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