Learning outcome 1: Understand the purpose and requirements of the areas of learning and development in the relevant early years framework.
1.1 Write about how one example of an activity/ experience that provides an explanation of how it links with the areas of learning:
The activity I have chosen to write about is ‘hopscotch’. Hopscotch links to two of the prime areas and one of the specific areas:
Prime area:
Physical development – one of the reasons why hopscotch links to physical development includes that the child has to leap in the activity. As the game goes on, the children may have to leap over two or more spaces at one time. Also, hopscotch requires a one-footed leap, and