Fiction

Rosie’s Walk - Pat Hutchings

Simple, sparse text which could have a story ‘laid on top’. Good way to introduce prepositions. Fits well with simple oral instructions.

Poetry

Focus nursery rhymes:

Old MacDonaldTwo Little Dickie BirdsIf you're happy and you know

Songs and rhymes about animals

Non-fiction:

Instructions Texts: simple class activities, e.g. how to do something; how to get from one place to another

Reading Spine

Hug - Jez Alborough

The Train Ride - June Crebbin

Development Matters

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

Develop their sense of responsibility and membership of a community.

Increasingly follow rules, understanding why they are important. Do not always need an adult to remind them of a rule.

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.

Content:

Meeting Reverend Ian.

Circle Times with The Colour Monster

Introducing 'snack time' routines

Jigsaw/Jerrie Cat - Being Me In My World

Talking about what we are proud of with Jerrie Cat

Snack Time social chat

Development Matters

Show preference for dominant hand

Be increasingly independent as they get dressed and undressed, for example, putting coats on and doing up zips.

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

Development Matters

Use some of their print and letter knowledge in their early writing.For example: writing a pretend shopping list that starts at the top of the page; writing ‘m’ for mummy.

Write some or all of their name.

Content:

Mark-making

Role Play

Name tracing

Labelling with name

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

- colours

-matching

- sorting

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.

Make imaginative and complex ‘small worlds’ with blocks and construction kits, such as a city with different buildings and a park

Draw with increasing complexity and detail, such as representing a face with a circle and including details..

Show different emotions in their drawings and paintings, like happiness, sadness, fear etc.

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

Content:

Role Play

Small World play

Stories

Self portraits - labelling parts/talking about emotions with The Colour Monster

Building with construction toys

Music:

Oak Academy - 'All about me'