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Personal,
Social & Emotional Development
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Stepping stones where ICT may be used
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Activity
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Resources to Download |
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Have a strong exploratory impulse
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Link to 'show an interest in ICT'
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all ICT resources
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Show increasing independence in selecting and carrying out activities
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Encourage children to explore and talk about their new learning,
valuing their ideas and ways of doing things. Praise children's
achievements both process and product. Share achievements with
home eg taking print out home/stickers.
Careful demonstration of new programs.
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A wide range of software for the children to choose from.
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Persist for extended periods of time at an activity of their choosing
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Give opportunities for uninterrupted learning.
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Talking books:
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Seek out others to share experiences
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Showing a picture/game completed on screen. Children could choose
a partner to play with a programmable toy. Use of programmable toys
can stimulate discussion and cooperative problem solving
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Any talking book or CD rom activity
Programmable toys:
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Have an awareness of the boundaries set and behavioural expectations
within the setting
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Teaching rules about using the computer, digital camera etc.
Teacher will need to help generate discussion concerning 'rules'
and remind children what the 'rules' are.
Teacher should negotiate with the children what exactly constitutes
a 'fair' turn when working with peers.
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Examples of rules posters to display next to computer:
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Communication,
Language & Literacy
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Stepping stones where ICT may be used
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Activity
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Resources to Download |
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Use words and/or gestures, including body language such as eye
contact and facial expression, to communicate
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Telephone role play.
Smart Alex Cdrom : Alex pulls over a hundred faces, expressing
many different emotions. Children can make up stories for Alex :
Alex is happy.
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Listen to favourite nursery rhymes, stories and songs. Join in
with repeated refrains, anticipating key events and important phrases
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Listen to and join in with a range of talking stories and nursery
rhymes. Talking Books, Big Books, Audio cassettes/CD player; record
children
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CD roms:
Nursery rhymes websites:
Music website:
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Respond to simple instructions
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Give opportunities for mouse click and drag; operating cassette
recorder buttons; pressing Roamer keys
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Websites:
Useful downloads for practical ideas on introducing Roamer:
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Question why things happen, and give explanations
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Teacher modelling; children asking about how/why things happen
on screen.
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all ICT resources
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Build up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences
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Explicit teaching/use of ICT related vocabulary.
Encourage children to find out what happens when certain buttons
or icons are pressed
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Clicker 4 - ready-made wordbanks, or create your own:
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Enjoy rhyming and rhythmic activities
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Join in with poems and rhymes using CD ROMs, cassettes, websites
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Cdrom:
Websites to explore:
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Understand the concept of a word
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Following words highlighted in Talking Book etc.
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Clicker 4 - ready-made wordbanks, or create your own:
Online big books:
Well known and new stories:
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Show interest in illustrations and print in books and print in
the environment
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Talk about pictures/images on screen
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Know that information can be retrieved from books and computers
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With adult direction, find out information on animals or place
they have visited from a Cdrom or website.
Make a simple class database together and children can find information
about children in the class, weather conditions etc
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Sebastian Swan website:
Simple database programme:
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Draw and paint, sometimes giving meanings to marks
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Using a paint package to experiment with tools and colours
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Online colouring and drawing:
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Use writing as a means of recording and communicating
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Using a "play" keyboard, typewriter, word processor or
software such as Clicker. Set large font.
Send an email to a favourite story character (many websites will
reply) or teacher could pretend to be a character for children to
send an email to.
Find early years classrooms around the world that are looking
to communicate with each other via email.
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Word processing software:
Send an email to:
Sebastian swan
Postman Pat
Santa:
Other teachers around the world registered
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Engage in activities requiring hand-eye co-ordination
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CD ROM activities, using a mouse, pointing to something on the
screen
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CD roms:
The following mouse practice activities can be downloaded onto
a floppy disk and used on a computer not connected to the internet.
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Use one-handed tools and equipment
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Using the mouse, cassette, programmable toys
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Useful website for planning DT in foundation years
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Manipulate objects with increasing control
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Mouse control, drag and drop activities.
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Website:
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Mathematical
Development
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Stepping stones where ICT may be used
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Activity
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Resources to Download |
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Recognise groups with one, two or three objects
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CD ROM activity, onscreen interactive tasks created in Textease,
painting program etc.
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Cdroms:
Download the animated counting baby:
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Show an interest in shape and space by playing with shapes or making
arrangements with objects
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Sort objects, fruit, pond-life, mini-beasts, transport or home
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Observe and use positional language
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Use arrow keys to control toy or on screen.
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Terry the turtle:
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Use size language such as 'big' and 'little'
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Digital camera CD ROM activity
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Also downloadable from:
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Describe a simple journey
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Use masking tape, paper or chalk to create a route to send a programmable
toy around.
Take photos of landmarks, objects etc on a walk for children to
discuss and recall route.
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For ideas using Roamer etc:
Digital camera
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Instruct a programmable toy
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Make roamer etc a character etc from a well known book eg Jolly
Postman, Rosie's Walk, Very Hungry Caterpillar etc and send it on
a journey.
Or send Lucky Ladybird around a plan of a garden to find flowers,
numbers or letters
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as above
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Knowledge
& Understanding of the World
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Stepping stones where ICT may be used
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Activity
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Resources to Download |
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Describe simple features of objects and events
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Digital camera, Computer as a teaching focus
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See photo bank on Herts Grid
See the article 'Autumn Walk':
view a record of an autumnal walk at:
For activities on the weather and the seasons see:
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Explore objects
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Picture matching, Put objects in the right rooms
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Cd rom:
Help Bob put the tools in his shed:
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Show an interest in why things happen and how things work
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encourage discussion and exploration whenever using ICT
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all ICT resources
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Notice and comment on patterns
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Digital camera picture, Children experiment with shapes and stamps
in paint packages
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My World screens:
For pictures of patterns in nature:
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Show an awareness of change
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Food technology - jelly ice cubes, liquid and solid states.
Investigate changes in seasons
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Cooker, Microwave, fridge, toaster:
Link to pictures of cooking equipment
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Show an interest in ICT
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Any ICT resources
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 See
computer labels
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Know how to operate simple equipment
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Children need opportunities to operate Cassette/CD players, light
switches, torches etc
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Complete a simple program on the computer and/or perform simple
functions on ICT apparatus
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Gain an awareness of the cultures and beliefs of others
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Use web site as teacher resource/teaching aid; digital camera;
cooking
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Info and dates for different festivals and suggestions for books:
Christianity site for early years linked to Tv programme:
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Physical
Development
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Stepping stones where ICT may be used
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Activity
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Resources to Download |
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Respond to rhythm, music and story by means of gesture and movement
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Cassette/CD, talking book
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Music:
Downloadable activity that will fit onto a floppy disk and used
offline:
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Persevere in repeating some actions/attempts when developing a
new skill
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K.O. Giving opportunity to try again
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Engage in activities requiring hand-eye co-ordination
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CD ROM activities, using a mouse, pointing to something on the
screen
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The following mouse practice activities can be downloaded onto
a floppy disk and used on a computer not connected to the internet:
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Use one-handed tools and equipment
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Using the mouse, cassette, programmable toys
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Understand that equipment and tools have to be used safely
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Teaching point, modelling
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Creative
Development
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Stepping stones where ICT may be used
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Activity
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Resources to download:
Word 97, 
Clicker files or  web
links
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Begin to differentiate colours
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Online colouring and drawing:
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Choose particular colours to use for a purpose
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When using paint package
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as above
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Respond to sound with body movement
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Cassettes/CDs
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See 'Weather Dance' at:
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Use available resources to create props to support role play
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Teacher/child creating forms, tickets etc for imaginative play
area; mask templates.
Use a word bank of a menu for children to choose from in the class
cafe/shop etc. Print it out as a receipt
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For templates of masks to download and print out:
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Try to capture experiences and responses with music, dance, paint
and other materials or words
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Recording on cassette; using digital camera; paint packages
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Music:
Downloadable activity that will fit onto a floppy disk and used
offline:
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