catherine.macmillan

I often feel really disappointed when you see primary children being ‘taught’ ICT skills they were competently and independently displaying at three/four years old in pre-five.  Kirsteen Carmichael has described some examples from one of her early years settings.  This again highlights the skills pre-school children are developing through the exciting opportunities early years staff are providing. 

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Today I filmed the children playing co-operatively with others during free play. There were examples of every child doing something including sharing resources at the art table, helping each other solve problems at the computer, playing an imaginative game together and taking turns on the interactive whiteboard.
We then had a discussion at the end of [...]

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Today the pre-school children designed their own invitations for our Grandparents/Special Person Day using 2Publish.  It was great for developing their mouse control.  I scribed the message and some children attempted to type their own names, others preferred to print then write their name/experiment with symbols.  It was a simple activity that was easily differentiated to accommodate [...]

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Today my pre-school group of children were learning about different shapes in the environment. We had a circle time in the nursery first and talked about some of the different shaped objects we could find. Afterwards the children were given the digital camera in groups of three to go around the school and take photographs [...]

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