Hi,
I've got an interview for an EY support worker role next week and the task is to capture the voice of a 5 year old and a 2 year old at home, giving an insight into how they feel about their lives at home. We need to be able to discuss how we would approach this and what resources we would use for this.
I feel like I'm struggling to come up with resources that are age appropriate for both e.g. my three homes, daily routine, drawing a picture is great for the five year old but not so appropriate for the 2 year old! I feel like all the activities I can think of would leave the 2 year old's feelings less heard except for in interactions with others, behaviour, how they present, are they meeting developmental milestones etc. My daughter is almost 2 and she only talks in two word sentences, she can obviously communicate lots but I don't know if she could communicate about things that aren't happening right now? I wondered about pictures or daily routine cards and emotion cards but I'm still not sure if that would work for a toddler and I don't want to look like I'm not aware of the development of a two year old.
The only other thing I could think of is role play like mummies and daddies? See what they do for play for that with prompts such as 'it's morning! What do you do in the morning?' etc. Or happy/sad faces and pictures for daily routine to go through or maybe look at what things happen every day (see if care needs are met) and what things don't or rarely happen e.g. does shouting happen a lot? Why? How does that make them feel?
Sorry I just really want to feel prepared as I'd love to get back to Early Years and making a difference, I'm was an EYFS teacher before leaving to have my daughter so might be looking at in too much of a lesson plan way! I'm very conscious I might be missing lots here as well! Thank you to anyone who offers any help, I really appreciate it.