Learning goal
- To build and describe a model of a familiar place.
EYFS outcomes
Development matters
Understanding the world
- Draw information from a simple map.
- Understand that some places are special to members of their community.
Characteristics of effective learning
- Playing and exploring.
- Active learning.
- Creating and thinking critically.
See Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance).
Support and challenge
Adults can use the opportunity to:
- Observe and support the children as they build and create, allowing them to add their own features using junk modelling, labels/signs or other resources from the different areas of provision around the classroom.
- Listen to storytelling and extend language/depth of learning when appropriate.
- Model the use of vocabulary to describe features.
Vocabulary
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building
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car park
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church
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city
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field
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lake
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mosque
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post office
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town
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village
