EYFS Big Garden Birdwatch Provision Enhancements

EYFS Big Garden Birdwatch Provision Enhancements

Try these six provision enhancement ideas that are all about garden birds. Encourage your children to build a nest in different ways, model their own bird, make a bird feeder or binoculars, and count the worms.

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Development Matters and Early Learning Goal Links:

3 and 4 year olds
Communication and Language
Understand ‘why’ questions, like: “Why do you think the caterpillar got so fat?”

Develop their communication, but may continue to have problems with irregular tenses and plurals, such as ‘runned’ for ‘ran’, ‘swimmed’ for ‘swam’.
Use longer sentences of four to six words.

PSED
Select and use activities and resources, with help when needed. This helps them to achieve a goal they have chosen, or one which is suggested to them.

Physical Development
Choose the right resources to carry out their own plan. For example, choosing a spade to enlarge a small hole they dug with a trowel.
Show a preference for a dominant hand.

Mathematics
Link numerals and amounts: for example, showing the right number of objects to match the numeral, up to 5.

Understanding the World
Begin to understand the need to respect and care for the natural environment and all living things.

Expressive Arts and Design
Begin to develop complex stories using small world equipment like animal sets, dolls and dolls houses etc.
Make imaginative and complex ‘small worlds’ with blocks and construction kits, such as a city with different buildings and a park.
Explore different materials freely, to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make.

Children in Reception
Communication and Language
Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what has been said to them.
Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities, and to explain how things work and why they might happen.

Physical Development
Develop their small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently. Suggested tools: pencils for drawing and writing, paintbrushes, scissors, knives, forks and spoons.

Mathematics
Count objects, actions and sounds.

Understanding the World
Explore the natural world around them.

Expressive Arts and Design
Return to and build on their previous learning, refining ideas and developing their ability to represent them.

Early Learning
Communication and Language
Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions.
Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding.
Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary.

PSED
Give focused attention to what the teacher says, responding appropriately even when engaged in activity, and show an ability to follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.

Be confident to try new activities and show independence, resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge.

Physical Development
Negotiate space and obstacles safely, with consideration for themselves and others.
Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery.

Mathematics
Have a deep understanding of number to 10, including the composition of each number.

Compare quantities up to 10 in different contexts, recognising when one quantity is greater than, less than or the same as the other quantity.

Understanding the World
Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants.

Expressive Arts and Design
Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
Share their creations, explaining the process they have used.

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