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Our human family |
Many languages and cultures |
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Learn a different language and make a friend that speaks that language. |
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Our human family |
Many languages and cultures |
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Hear the same phrase or word in different languages. |
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Our human family |
Many languages and cultures |
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Say 'Hello' in different languages. |
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Our human family |
Many languages and cultures |
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Dress up in costumes from different cultures, and/or do an ethnic costume parade. |
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Our human family |
Many languages and cultures |
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Invite different families to share ways that they celebrate according to their religious and ethnic practices. |
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Our human family |
Many languages and cultures |
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Invite families from different cultures to share lullabies and bedtime stories (can be in other languages) with the whole group. |
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Our human family |
Many languages and cultures |
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Invite families to each make a favourite dish to share with the group, telling a story about the history of that dish in their family. |
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Our human family |
Many languages and cultures |
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Invite people from a variety of cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, or with different abilities, to come and meet the children, telling stories from their lives that illustrate both things that are similar and things that are unique. |
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Our human family |
Many languages and cultures |
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Learn words in a different language through game and songs. |
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Design |
Making choices |
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Accept that their first preference isn't always the chosen option considering all other factors (including other people's preferences, resources, ethics). |
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Design |
Making choices |
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Appreciate and celebrate the group work we have done together (whether making choices, collective artwork etc.). |
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Design |
Making choices |
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See, taste, smell different options (e.g. different plants for a garden), then choose which ones they want. |
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Design |
Making choices |
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Decide where things go through play (e.g. toy chickens, bees, shed etc.). |
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Design |
Making choices |
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See how their ideas can be included into something which is made (e.g. garden/ bridge/ tree house). |
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Design |
Making choices |
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Be involved in making choices that are the best for all. |
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Design |
Making choices |
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Become familiar with vocabulary such as choices and design. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
making an alternative to plastic wrap out of cotton and beeswax (melted into the cloth with a warm iron) |
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Create or improve recycling systems /areas. |
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Design |
Maintenance: looking after your creation |
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Create own rituals about working together. |
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Design |
Maintenance: looking after your creation |
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Be involved in maintaining a system you designed (e.g. sell harvests to parents in a garden project, visit the local library in a reading project). |
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Design |
Maintenance: looking after your creation |
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Observe other people looking after a system (e.g. gardens etc), to see 'What is working well', 'what is taking a lot of work'. Where appropriate, consider questions such as 'Where are the tools placed, are they in the right place?' 'Does it taste good?' 'Do the people look happy?' |
