Topic Sheet - Our Town and Community
 
Hello, my name is Anna and I’m the owner of Little Stars Childminding. As well as caring for little people, I also have two pre-school children of my own. I use a mixture of teaching styles at my setting; we enjoy lots of child led and free play learning and embrace many of the principles of in the moment planning.
 
However, we also have a monthly topic and the children LOVE it. I think topics are helpful to introduce the children to concepts that they may not otherwise encounter at such a young age.
 
• Our topic helps me with toy rotation. My setting is also my home so we don’t have a huge space to have all of our resources out 24/7.
• Our topic gives structure to our tuff tray and tinker tray play.
• Our topic influences our choice of role play area and helps me rotate the fancy dress.
• Our topic helps me introduce the children to different books and stories. We have so many so it’s helpful to bring them out based on a specific theme.
• Our topic helps guide our choice of outings. I’ve taken the children to some fantastic locations for our outings that I may otherwise not even have thought of as a place to go.
• Our topic helps me teach the children about the world around them.
• Our topic helps me as a practitioner to constantly question what resources and activities I’m providing for the children, and how they can be used to enhance the learning provision I offer.
 
You can see some of our topic based play, tuff trays, tinker trays and role play set ups on Facebook www.facebook.com/littlestarschildming.weymouth and Instagram www.instagram.com/annaslittlestars
 
This topic sheet has been designed as a monthly topic. There are 49 activities, seven for each of the seven areas of learning. Each square is a prompt, giving you ideas for activities, games and outings that you can take, adapt, enhance and make your own.
 
The children can have an input too, selecting which of the activities they would like to do that day, building on the British Values of democracy and the Personal Social and Emotional Development goals of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
 
The activities have been broken down into the seven areas of learning so they can easily be selected to meet the individual needs of the children in your care and the next steps they need to take to meet their learning outcomes.
 
* Please note some of the items in this monthly topic are specific to Dorset but can easily be adapted to your home town.
 
What am I buying?
 
This listing is for an instant digital download of a one page pdf document. No physical product will be sent. This document can be used electronically on your computer/device, or printed and displayed at your setting.
 
Please let me know if you have any problems downloading or opening the document and if there’s a topic you’d like to buy but don’t see listed then give me a shout and I’ll put it together for you. Thanks Anna