[IrenaBaruch]

Attached is my 2 year old progress check reflective log. Also sorry for the delay.

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Please find attached my CPLD 7 Tasks.

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I think our setting has good opportunities for the individual child’s voice, input, recognition to be heard and noticed. We are observing and listening to the children constantly. We have a lot of children with EAL so although we promote verbal communication, especially through our circle times, where music, song and rhythm are used, it is through this observation often that you really begin to get to know the child. We have a very wholesome lunch everyday that we share and this is often a nice place for the children to communicate their thoughts, ideas, reflections and observations. It has become a sacred time, a time where the children have learned to listen to one another. This can often be the place that the teacher can draw upon the child’s voice and ideas and use them in further planning ideas. Eating and sharing food seems to relax everyone and can bear some very fruitful conversations.

We also have a sharing circle everyday, a space where children like to share an object from home, or a thought that is important to them. Parents often send photographs so that we can put them up and the children can connect to each other, like for instance if the child has just celebrated a important festival for them in their family or a birthday, where they bring a photo from every year of their life so far. The children love to share ‘their story’ and their friends love to listen!

Storytelling and visual puppetry to stories are used regularly in our setting. Listening to stories has promoted the skills in the children to be able to listen to one other, as well as build up the own picturing and imagination skills. I regularly have open ended toys, like different shaped wood, alongside different felted puppets (often they represent the different communities that are within our group at that time) for the children to make up their own stories; a powerful way for even the youngest children to express themselves.

Even though it is not classically a ‘listening to children’ as its not verbal communication, we take a lot of notice of the children’s drawings. How and what they draw is often a strong communication with us of where they are in their lives and how they feel in the world.

Here is my son’s 6 year old drawing (he attends my setting but not in my group) I find it really interesting the earth, the grass, the tree, himself, the sun but a cloud above him. He is a very happy boy but its like the situation with covid is that ‘cloud’.

Sorry for the long text, its just some of my thoughts around this idea.

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Sustained shared thinking task

Additional-Task-1-final-SST-Dec-20

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Thanks for everyone’s input about this task, its very helpful. I have made a first draft so I think I will go back through and look at marking criteria and Nicky’s points too.
Thank you all.

[IrenaBaruch]

Thank you Arlene for this. I now realise I had written the first part to this assignment which I thought was due in now! So thanks for that clarity and the extra part that we need to do.
Irena

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