Development Matters

Develop their sense of responsibility and membership of a community.

Become more outgoing with unfamiliar people, in the safe context of their setting. Show more confidence in new social situations

Play with one or more other children, extending and elaborating play ideas. Help to find solutions to conflicts and rivalries.

Develop appropriate ways of being assertive. Talk with others to solve conflicts.

Talk about their feelings using words like ‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘angry’ or ‘worried’.

Begin to understand how others might be feeling.

Possible content:
Visit Reverend Ian.

Circle Times with The Colour Monster

Reinforce 'snack time' routines

Jigsaw/Jerrie Cat - Celebrating Difference

Development Matters

Continue to develop their movement, balancing, riding (scooters, trikes and bikes) and ball skills.

Start taking part in some group activities which they make up for themselves, or in teams.

Possible content:

Role Play - group dance/routines

PE

Real PE - Coordination: Sending and Recieving

Theme - Juggling

Giving feedback, intructions

Development Matters

Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary.

Develop their phonological awareness, so that they can:- spot and suggest rhymes- count or clap syllables in a word

Possible content:

Talent show stage - telling stories with an adult. Acting out new words.

Clapping songs and words with adult (Role Play)

Performing nursery rhymes and joining in.

Making up rhymes to match words.

Speaking aloud

Development Matters:

Develop fast recognition of up to 3 objects, without having to count them individually (‘subitising’).

Say one number for each item in order: 1,2,3,4,5.

Know that the last number reached when counting a small set of objects tells you how many there are in total (‘cardinal principle’).

Show ‘finger numbers’ up to 5.Link numerals and amounts: for example, showing the right number of objects to match the numeral, up to 5.

Talk about and explore 2D and 3D shapes (for example, circles, rectangles, triangles and cuboids) using informal and mathematical language: ‘sides’, ‘corners’; ‘straight’, ‘flat’, ‘round’.

Make comparisons between objects relating to size, length, weight and capacity.

Talk about and identifies the patterns around them. For example: stripes on clothes, designs on rugs and wallpaper.

Use informal language like ‘pointy’, ‘spotty’, ‘blobs’, etc.

Extend and create ABAB patterns – stick, leaf, stick, leaf.

Content:

White Rose Activities

- Number 1

- Number 2

- Pattern

Development Matters

Take part in simple pretend play, using an object to represent something else even though they are not similar.

Begin to develop complex stories using small world equipment like animal sets, dolls and dolls houses etc.

Explore different materials freely, to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make.

Develop their own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them

Join different materials and explore different textures.

Respond to what they have heard, expressing their thoughts and feelings.

Remember and sing entire songs.

Sing the pitch of a tone sung by another person (‘pitch match’).

Sing the melodic shape (moving melody, such as up and down, down and up) of familiar songs.

Create their own songs or improvise a song around one they know.

Play instruments with increasing control to express their feelings and ideas.

Possible content:

Role play - theatre

Making costumes

Performing - songs/stories/rhymes/dance/puppets/talents

Being in the audience

Exploring musical instruments - making a band

Making musical instruments

Music:

Oak Academy - Journeys and Adventures