Development Matters

See themselves as a valuable individual

Build constructive and respectful relationships.

Express their feelings and consider the feelings of others.

Show resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge.

Identify and moderate their own feelings socially and emotionally.

Think about the perspectives of others.

Manage their own needs.

ELG

Self-Regulation

Show an understanding of their own feelings and those of others, and begin to regulate their behaviour accordingly.

Set and work towards simple goals, being able to wait for what they want and control their immediate impulses when appropriate.

Give focused attention to what the teacher says, responding appropriately even when engaged in activity, and show an ability to follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.

Managing Self

Be confident to try new activities and show independence, resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge.

Explain the reasons for rules, know right from wrong and try to behave accordingly.

Manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs, including dressing, going to the toilet and understanding the importance of healthy food choices.

Building Relationships

Work and play cooperatively and take turns with others.

Form positive attachments to adults and friendships with peers.Show sensitivity to their own and to others’ needs.

Possible content:

Circle Time discussions

Role Play

Snack Time

Jigsaw/Jerrie Cat - Changing Me

Sharing ideas, Taking turns talking

Development Matters

Revise and refine the fundamental movement skills they have already acquired:- rolling- crawling- walking- jumping- running- hopping- skipping -climbing

Progress towards a more fluent style of moving, with developing control and grace.

Develop their small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently.

Use their core muscle strength to achieve a good posture when sitting at a table or sitting on the floor.

Develop overall body-strength, balance, co-ordination and agility.

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Gross Motor Skills

Negotiate space and obstacles safely, with consideration for themselves and others.

Demonstrate strength, balance and coordination when playing.

Move energetically, such as running, jumping, dancing, hopping, skipping and climbing.

Fine Motor Skills

Children at the expected level of development will:

Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery;

Possible content:

Using small equipment in role play, tweezers, small pots with lids, zip bags..

Role Play

Model making

Fine motor skill activities (e.g. following line with scissors)

PE

Real PE - Jumping and Landing

Theme - Space

Giving instructions, giving feedback

Development Matters

Write short sentences with words with known letter-sound correspondences using a capital letter and full stop.

Re-read what they have written to check that it makes sense.

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Comprehension

Demonstrate understanding of what has been read to them by retelling stories and narratives using their own words and recently introduced vocabulary.

Anticipate (where appropriate) key events in stories.

Use and understand recently introduced vocabulary during discussions about stories, non- fiction, rhymes and poems and during role play.

Writing

Write recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed.

Spell words by identifying sounds in them and representing the sounds with a letter or letters.

Write simple phrases and sentences that can be read by others

Possible content:

Making posters with questions to help the traveller - 'Have you been here?'

Writing labels and captions for clues and pictures the story traveller provides.

Draw and write parts of the story lands the traveller will visit.

Talk for writing

Read, Write, Inc. (Phonics)

Development Matters:

Select, rotate and manipulate shapes to develop spatial reasoning skills.

Compose and decompose shapes so that children recognise a shape can have other shapes within it, just as numbers can.

Understand the ‘one more than/one less than’ relationship between consecutive numbers.

Explore the composition of numbers to 10.

Continue, copy and create repeating patterns.

ELG

Number

Have a deep understanding of number to 10, including the composition of each number.

Subitise (recognise quantities without counting) up to 5.

Automatically recall (without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids) number bonds up to 5 (including subtraction facts) and some number bonds to 10, including double facts.

Numerical Patterns

Verbally count beyond 20, recognising the pattern of the counting system.

Compare quantities up to 10 in different contexts, recognising when one quantity is greater than, less than or the same as the other quantity.

Explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally.

Possible content:

White Rose Activities

Find my pattern

- Doubling

- Sharing & grouping

- Visualise and build

- Even & odd

- Spatial reasoning 3

On the move

- Deepening understanding

-Patterns & relationships

-Spatial mapping 4

-Mapping

Development Matters

Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings.

Return to and build on their previous learning, refining ideas and developing their ability to represent them.

Create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills.

ELG Focus

Creating with Materials

Children at the expected level of development will:

Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form, and function;

Share their creations, explaining the process they have used;

Possible content:

Create own maps large and small (group and individual)

Use 3D elements to build large scale lands to use with small world.

Create artwork based on stories.

Music:

Oak Academy - 'Out of this World'