What a perfect area to embrace Philosophy for Children! In fact we do it every time we read a story. As Early Years practitioners it is already in us to become philosophers when reading a story book. In Reading (30 – 50 months) we ask children to make up their own story endings. What better was to philosophise?
Reading Early Learning Goals 1. Children read and understand simple sentences. 2. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. 3. They read some common irregular words. 4. They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read. Areas to Explore For older reception children – can they choose between the written statements to vote? When given a short sentence or word can children read them and place them in the correct place? E.g. see the activity “sorting animals”. This activity is done with toy animals but could, instead, be done with animals written on pieces of card Give children short sentences written on card. Ask each child to read their statement out and have the group vote on whether they agree or disagree e.g. ‘dogs are cute’ Writing Early Learning Goals 1. Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. 2. They also write some irregular common words. 3. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. 4. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible. Areas to Explore Ask children to write their answer to open questions. Ask them to write a question they would like to discuss Have the children write down the community rules or 4Cs using their phonetic knowledge
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AuthorMiss Magical Mess is a pre-school teacher and P4C Level 2B facilitator. After a shaky start as a P4C facilitator (P4C with 3 year olds... are you kidding?) Miss Magical Mess created her own approach to P4C and enquiry model and is now a big fan. Archives |