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This beautifully constructed Farm House - Age 3+ by Plan Toys allows children to develop and fulfil all their childhood dreams of being a farmer. The set includes a doll, a sheep dog, a table and 2 chairs and comes with open sliding wall. Age : 3 Years Up
Special Features
- Well designed with great attention to detail eg front opening section for easy access and barn-style roof with hinged sky-light to encourage group play
- Extend play possibilities by using house with patio set, vegetable garden, sun room furniture
- Working winch extends knowledge of mechanisms
Goes well with Country Barn and Country Stable
 Applications:
- Therapeutic play
- Motivational play
- Social play
- Using language of negotiation
- Creative language: Making stories up individual and in groups, children talk together
- Re-create and tell stores eg The Enormous Turnip
- Discuss different roles on the farm naming animals, tools, plants and equipment
- Speaking and listening with others in the group and outside
- Using questions to develop the use of language
- Sequencing play
- Descriptive vocabulary ie describing the main features of the plants and animals
- Using mathematical language in play through observation and handling small world equipment, develop positional language
- Developing language of size big, little, tall, taller, longer, shorter, wider
- Mathematical development: Grouping - what goes in which room? Making collections Positioning - where shall we put things?
- Develop language of 2D and 3D shape square, circle, side, corner
- Order 2 items by either weight, length or height
- Develop language of weight heavier, lighter eg using winch to lift different loads
- Comparing two groups of objects saying when they have the same number eg are there more sheep than cows?
- Find total number of items in 2 groups by counting all the items eg how many sheep and cows altogether?
- Develops concentration
- Developing buildings to go along with the farmhouse eg barn
- Structures comparison between ladders and stairs
- Evaluating other peoples designs, making and dressing doll characters to go in the farm house
- Developing understanding of life cycles
- Understanding the concept and vocabulary associated with time discussion of farmer's day, life cycles, crops growing
- Learning about different types of living things where they live, how they behave and what they need
- Appreciate the importance of caring for living things through talking about animals on the farm
- Develop simple plans and maps showing layout of the farm
- Use appropriate words countryside, road, path, market, to help make distinctions in their observations
- Developing knowledge of different environments
- Opportunity to talk about weather patterns, change, life cycles and seasons
- Mechanisms winding mechanism, working winch with large wooden pulley wheel.
- Investigate lifting different loads
- Problem solving - How to keep winch at top or how to stop it unwinding?
- Hinges metal hinge on two sections, metal rod to hinge doors or windows
- Form and function different tools for different jobs. How and when used? Winch for lifting things
- Joining techniques dowel pegs to keep things in place, keep windows open
- Developing fine manipulative skills
- Improve hand/eye coordination
- Develop language and vocabulary of manipulation eg squeeze, hold, turn
- Use descriptive language to describe the main features of things they hold or touch eg lumpy, spiky, soft, hard, shiny, smooth
- Spatial awareness
- Creative vocabulary making up situations/scenarios eg escaped animals!
- Develops creative vocabulary
- Use resources to create props to support their small world and role play
- Play along side other children and cooperatively as part of a group
- Use resources to create props to support their small world and role play
- Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in 2D and 3D
- Visual discrimination discriminating between colours, shapes and patterns
Benefits:
Language & Communication
Includes developing the ability to listen, to understand what is said, and to speak to others. He eventually develops the ability to see and understand the use of written language and to write and read.
Creative Development
Play helps each child develop creativity and imagination such as role-play, and imaginative play. Creativity also fosters mental growth in children by providing opportunities for trying out new ideas, and new ways of thinking and problem-solving
Social Development
Is development in terms of social interaction which helps them create social skills and interact with others such as peer group and family members.
Product Size :
26.5 x 28 x 22 cm. 10.4 x 2 x 8.7 inch
Package Size :
28x 38 x 11.2 cm. 7.4 x 7.4 x 4.4 inch |
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