Circle Time - Do You Have This In Your Setting?

Guest · 2012-02-05T15:09:30+0000

We introduced Circle Time at the beginning of our session a week past on Friday purely to try and encourage our children to move into specific areas soon after arrival each day. We had 2 little boys who just wanted to mess about on arrival and ended up playing hide and seek around a couch, running into things and generally knocking things over or else (as we still do have) take part in wrestling each other on the couch. We brought in a Winnie the Pooh bear and we firstly go around the circle saying good morning and hugging Pooh. If the children want to talk a bit more then we listen but usually as they are waiting on others to arrive they have had the opportunity to say all they want. Then we produce an A3 sheet with all the areas listed in picture form and the names of the areas beside them. The children before they go into circle time have lifted their own symbols from a table and as we go around the circle for a second time they put their symbol on the area in which they intend to play. Unfortunately it is not working for these same 2 boys as one just will not settle even after choosing an area and an adult encouraging him to move into that area. He tends to wander about annoying those who are happily about to play in their own areas. The other watches to see what he is up to and follows his lead. We have been able to separate this last boy by an adult reminding him of the area he chose and encouraging him to join them as they are going to that area too. Then we have another child who 2 seconds after going to the area and starts to play says "I'm not playing here any more" and moves off to another area. We would really like to encourage her to play more within the areas as she does tend to do this a lot - I think by the end of the first half hour she has visited every area more than once! We thought it was a case of seeing an adult working in an area and for attention wants to be there too but whilst that might be the case sometimes I don't think it is all the time. She has started this tendency to drag another younger child with her by saying "come on xxx we're finished playing her now lets go somewhere else." We have addressed this by stopping the younger child and asking her "do you want to move on xxx you don't have to go just because xxx told you to, I seen you making ... would you not like to finish it?" Does circle time work from this point of view? I know we introduced it to the whole group and ideally you would like it split in 2 groups (we have 12 in total with only 2 staff) but with people arriving and one having to man door to greet and meet and the other waiting with the rest it is not easy to separate children and have a waiting time which they dislike. I was wondering if there was perhaps something we can do whilst settling the children other than a sharing and talking time? Eventually I would love it to be a time when the children will say "I'm going to play with the blocks and I am going to build a great big tower" or whatever but they don't seem to have that concept yet and I know it is probably too early to be pushing it just yet.

By Guest terrydoo73
February 5, 2012 in All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues

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