• Continue to develop your child’s confidence and ability to talk to others in school- both adults and children.
• Encouraging your child to develop their listening and turn-taking skills
• Extending your child’s vocabulary –naming, labelling and describing.
• Sharing books with your child, and applying their phonic skills and knowledge of tricky words
• Developing their knowledge of the structure of books-beginning ,middle and end
• Becoming aware of  the characters, settings and main story lines of simple texts
• Being involved in role play –for example a birthday party or Santa’s workshop
•  Use their phonic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically attempts at more complex words.
• Writing for a purpose- on cards, writing lists, simple sentences
• Practise simple letter formation

 

 Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy

• Encouraging your child to recognise, count and order numbers to 20
• Developing their ability to compare amounts, saying which is more, fewer or the same
• Consolidate  simple addition and extend to problem solving activities
• Count repeated groups of the same size.
• Share objects into equal groups and count how many in each group
• Naming and describing simple shapes-
• 2D-triangle, square, rectangle, circle
• 3D –cube, cuboid, sphere, cone, cylinder
• Helping your child to respond to and using simple positional language
• Recognise, continue and create repeating patterns
• Continue to use the language of measurement-longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, full/empty
• Use their own criteria to sort objects according to their similarities and differences

 

 Knowledge and understanding of the World

• Becoming aware of patterns and changes in the world around them-seasons, weather, living things etc
• Investigating various materials-e.g the best paper for wrapping presents
• Learning to use simple tools and techniques-scissors, split pins etc
• Using appropriate software and programmable toys-Beebot, paint programmes etc
• Making and constructing with a purpose in mind-e.g presents for the party area,
• Remembering significant events in their own experiences and those of people close to them-celebrations in their families
• Becoming aware of their environment and talk about change-e.g the new outdoor area

 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• To continue to develop their  independence and confidence in school
• To stay for longer on tasks, become more involved and persevere
• Continue to be interested, excited and motivated to learn.
• Be confident to try new activities, initiate ideas and speak in a familiar group.
• Begin to develop a knowledge of and respect for their own and others’ cultures
• To form good relationships with adults and chidren
• Expressing their needs and feelings appropriately and to be aware of the needs of others.
• Helping your child  to dress and undress independently and to appreciate the needs for hygiene

 

Physical Development

 

• Moving freely in a variety of ways-hop,jump, slide etc
• Negotiating space successfully to avoid obstacles and others.
• To sit, stand and balance on various parts of the body.
• To observe the effects of activity on their bodies
• To be aware of safety issues-space, correct use of tools etc
• Developing their coordination, using one-handed tools
• Showing control over clothing and fastenings
• Show control in using large equipment for climbing and swinging, and small equipment for catching and throwing
• Show increasing control of small equipment-throwing, kicking a ball for example

 

Creative Development

• Using language, music, art and movement to express themselves and capture their experiences
• To use different medias-e.g pastels, paint, pencils, clay etc
• To sing simple songs-for the Christmas concert
• To explore instruments and how to change sounds, to explore different rhythms
• To participate in role-play and imaginative play-party area, Santa’s workshop for example