Understanding the World

Suggested activities to help children develop their knowledge and understanding of the world around them!

 

• Planting in the garden and talking about what plants need to grow
• Helping to prune plants
• Making binoculars out of toilet rolls and observe any visiting birds
• Make bird food
• Hunt for minibeasts
• Look through picture albums and discuss the people in the pictures and talk about special

       events.

• Play with mechanical toys.
• Let children take pictures of wildlife or flowers in the garden.
• Bake a cake, make jelly or melt chocolate to drizzle over fruit kebabs. Encourage your child to observe changes that happen to the food when it is cooked / refrigerated / melted.