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Originally Posted by mother theresa
can anyone help use appropriate activities,materials, and experiences to support learning and development and identify activities and equipment to support childrens play and learning, including how these are used to best effect my minds gone blank at the moment ![Banghead](images/smilies/banghead.gif)
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If you start off with your planning, have a look at what you are doing, then you'll know why you have chosen that particular activity and then look at it for individual children and you will see how you need to provide equipment and resources to best effect for a child.
So, if you have decided to do painting ( and this can support many aspects of learning and development - physical, creative, pse etc) you will then identify that some younger or less able children are not able to use the finer brushes, but you've thought of that by proving chunky ones as well. You might add that very young children prefer to use their hands, so you have also placed shallow trays of paint - so you have thought of your objectives, your learning outcomes and how and what you are going to provide for the individual needs of children for their age and stage of development and interest.
Remember any children that may have different or additional needs, so if you provided the above activity for a child in a wheelchair -
Could they access this activity?
Does anything need to be changed or adapted and if they can't get to the activity can you take it to them? and how?