Organising The Children

AnonyMouse_4562 · 2006-01-27T23:00:02+0000

Hi, This my first post of the year - so - HAPPY NEW YEAR! Just hoping someone out there might be able to give me some advice! I am getting muddled with focused and independent groups and keeping track of the children. Our fantastic early years advisor came in last week and put our minds at rest with a lot of things. However, she suggested that we changed our literacy and numeracy sessions so that there is only 1 focused activity going on, while the other practitioner floats to support the children's learning in the areas and the independent activities. Previously, we were both doing a focused task and there was 2 independent tasks going on, while one group was completely child initiated. The children on the independent tasks were able to choose from the areas after having a go at the independent tasks. The children who were on the independent tasks would then swap with the focused groups. Often, the independent tasks were differentiated to some extent. My problem now is that having 5 groups, it is difficult to get through 3 groups in 1 session which means that it would take 3 days to get through all the children (30). If I try to do 3 groups I get in a muddle about who's done which independent task. Our advisor suggested letting them choose but I feel that the children need to have some direction to independent activities some of the time, especially if they are supposed to have around 50% CI. Please, please, please would you share your practice - how many focused and independent tasks do you expect your children to do? How to organise 5 groups - would I be better with 6? My other question is - do you use your areas for independent tasks or are they table-top based with different resources? If you do use your areas, do your ask other children not to go there? As my classroom is small, my areas are small - for 3-5 children so I could not send a whole group there at one time. I have tried out different ways of organising the children and if I write them down it resembles a mathematical equations! I end up feeling frazzled by the end of the day - working out who's done what! I love being in reception but at the end of each day I go home thinking of a different way of organising it - I desperately need something consistent for the children. I hope that you can make sense of my ramblings, I could have done with a whole week with the advisor not just an hour and a half! Thanks, Green Hippo

By AnonyMouse_4562
January 27, 2006 in Reception: Observation, Assessment and Planning

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