What is Know & Play Preschool?
Know & Play Preschool is a new part of The Know & Play Space. It features learning activity guides and curriculums to support your child through the preschool stage of their learning and development journey.
Our Know & Play Preschool publications are suitable for just having fun doing activities at home together, homeschool preschool, or childcare settings, and have been expertly put together as purposeful, play-based programmes.
What is the '20 Purposeful Play Ideas' series?
Our '20 Purposeful Play Ideas' series is the newest addition to our Know & Play Preschool publications. The series contains different themed learning ideas, all suitable for children aged approximately 3-4 years old. All of the guides in the '20 Purposeful Play Ideas' series include 20 play-based learning activities that cover objectives from each area of the Early Years Foundation Stage Guidance, as set out by the English government. This means that with each guide, children are getting opportunities to learn and develop holistically - rather than just focusing on areas such as numeracy and literacy.
Upon purchasing the any of the '20 Purposeful Play Ideas' guides, you will also get access to the 'Supporting Resources' section of Know & Play Preschool, which provides you with BONUS printable resources and guides to enhance, support and help with the activities and ideas.
What is the 'Autumn' Activity Guide?
The 'Autumn' guide is the first of the '20 Purposeful Play Ideas' series. It features 20 autumn-themed activities that all follow a play-based learning approach, and will support your child in working on Early Years objectives from the 3-4 years age range/stage.
What age is the '20 Purposeful Play Ideas' series suitable for?
The '20 Purposeful Play Ideas' series which is best suited to children 3-4 years, who are in their preschool stage of learning. However, the objectives covered throughout the guide are ones that children could begin to work on around 2.5 years old, and would be still continuing to master around 5 years of age too. The activities can easily be extended or made more challenging and we have included suggestions of how to do this. If you are unsure as to whether the guide is suitable for your child, please reach out via email or Instagram DM.
The guide says 'homeschool preschool'. Does that mean it isn't suitable for children in my childminding or other early years setting?
Absolutely not! It's DEFINITELY suitable for ANY early years setting and also for parents at home - whether you're homeschooling everyday, or just looking for purposeful play ideas to do with your little one every now and again.
My child goes to a Preschool already and I don't have much time with them at home. Is this still worth buying?
If you like setting up and doing simple play activities with your child, and you want to be supporting their development, then it's definitely still worth buying! Although the blocks are suggested to spend a week on, because they're flexible, you can dip in and dip out of activities whenever works for you (and there are 20 of them to do this with!).
As mentioned in our guide, it's suggested in research that children learn best through a spiral approach to learning, so coming back to activities over and over again at different times is really beneficial to their development and mastery of skills.
Can I see a sneak peak of what I am buying?
Of course! So with each guide you will get a 'Theme Overview' which shows you all of the 20 activities included within the guide. We've blanked this out here with acorns and pinecones so that we don't give away all of the activities!
This is then what the activity pages looks like. You'll see that every activity has a how to and at least one image so you can see what it may look like when set up. Each page also includes questions to enhance your child's learning, a list of everything you will need and then some pages also include a box with linked resources in that will further your child's learning and follow the interest that may have been created through doing the activity.
Do I need a lot of space for these activities? And are they any activities that offer learning outdoors?
Nope, you don't need a lot of space for any of these activities. All of them can be adapted to work in the space you have available for play. And, yes! Definitely! In fact, nearly all of the activities are ones that you could do outside and some are BEST done outdoors. We offer lots of ideas of how to make the play BIG or how it can be done OUTDOORS.
Do I need to buy lots of resources to be able to do the activities?
Nope! Most of the activities use resources that you will most likely already have or can collect at home. As mentioned above, any resources we feel would be helpful materials to have to enhance or help with the activities, we've included as bonus printables.
If you've purchased the 'Autumn' Guide and have the password, you can find access to all of these bonus printables here: https://www.theknowandplayspace.com/know-and-play-preschool
What's the difference between the PDF Copy and the Hard Copy?
The PDF Copy and Hard Copy are the same document, however, the PDF will be sent instantly upon purchase to your email. The Hard Copy will be posted to your chosen address. If we have copies already in stock, they will be posted as soon as possible. If not, then the ordering option online will change to pre-order, until we have more in stock, and will be sent as soon as we have them. This doesn't normally take longer than 1 week.
Do you have any other Know & Play Preschool publications?
We do! Currently we have our our 'Starter Guide' which is designed for children from around 2.5+ years. We would recommend this first before starting any of the '20 Purposeful Play Ideas' series if your child is 2.5-3 years old. Find out more about the Starter Activity Guide here!
We have lots of ideas for future publications. Make sure you are subscribed to our email list, and follow us on Instagram @theknowandplayspace to see when these are released!
Any other questions?
Please feel free to get in touch via email or Instagram DM. We are always more than happy to help!
HAPPY KNOWING & PLAYING
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