1. The world prompts www.earlybirdyeducation.com
This is a useful prompt to ensure that the world is covered and taught effectively towards the month age band.

2. Arrange local visits to familiar places e. g
Arrange local visits to familiar places e.g. the local park, post box, library and place relevance to familiar things around them.
Send the class mascot on local journeys and take photographs. This will broaden their understanding of the wider world.
Allow children to explore their environment and resources e.g. digging, planting, wind up toys. Children will learn best from their own interest so encourage them to follow their own curiosity and scaffold them along the way e.g. “I wonder why this soil is hard?”
Leave lots of open ended activities out to support and scaffold their understanding and learning.
Develop a sense of care and responsibility. Look after a pet e.g. fish, grow plants, vegetables, water class plant.
Ensure that children are exposed to the natural environment and they can see how change can effect it e.g. when a plants leaves fall off.
The World
• Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world.
• Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.
• Talks about why things happen and how things work.
• Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time.
• Shows care and concern for living things and the environment.
Celebrate the individual child, ensure the environment has photographs, birthdays, pictures of local celebrations, environments and current events.