Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary
Understand key concepts about print
Write some letters accurately along with some or all of their name
Enjoy listening to longer stories, remembering much of it and pay attention to more than 1 thing at once
Develop communication, pronunciation and use a wider range of vocabulary
Understand 2 part questions or instructions
Be able to express a point of view and start a conversation, using talk to organise their play
Begin to make sense of self and own family, developing positive attitudes about the differences between people
Talk about what they see using all their senses in hands on exploration exploring materials and how things work
Begin to understand life cycles, plant and care for seeds respecting the environment and living things
Know there are different countries and talk about differences
Explore different materials both indoors and outdoors
Explore and respond to different natural phenomena in the nursery and on trips
Notice differences between people, making connections between their families and others
Develop sense of responsibility and being part of a community, showing more confidence in new social situations and become more outgoing with unfamiliar people
Play with others, finding solutions to conflicts
Understanding the importance of, and follow rules, remembering them without an adult to remind them
Develop ways to be assertive and speak to others to resolve problems and talk about feelings gradually understanding how others may feel
Become increasingly independent in own care and make healthy choices with food, and activities
Use imagination in play, developing complex stories and taking part in pretend play using objects to represent something else
Exploring colours, materials and textures developing own ideas to decide what to make
Show emotions in drawings, increasing complexity and detail and begin to create closed shapes
Listen and respond to sounds, expressing feelings
Sing learnt songs and make up own around one they know
Develop fast recognition of up to 3 objects, reciting numbers past 5 and showing fingers upto 5
Compare quantities, solve problems with numbers upto 5
Talk about and explore shapes, positioning and size/weight comparisons
Begin to describe a sequence of events, notice patterns and errors in them along with describing patterns using informal language
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