Author: Bev Evans

Communication, Language and Literacy
Interact with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversations
Extend their vocabulary, exploring the meanings and sounds of new words
Use talk to organise, sequence, and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events

Physical Development
Move with confidence and imagination and in safety
Move with control and co-ordination
Travel through, under, over, and through balancing and climbing equipment
Show an awareness of space, of themselves and of others
Recognise the changes that happen to their bodies when active
Use a range of small and large equipment
Handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.

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Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Work as part of a group, taking turns and sharing fairly
Select and use activities and resources independently

Knowledge and Understanding of the World Investigate objects and materials by using all their senses as appropriate
Find out and identify some features of living things, objects and events they observe
Look closely as similarities, differences, patterns and change
Ask questions about why things happen and how things work
Observe and find out about and identify features in the place they live and the natural work
Find out about their environment and talk about those features they like and dislike

Tools and equipment for exploring environment, e.g. magnifying glasses, small containers
Cardboard boxes and construction items
Writing materials and clipboards, markers, white boards etc.
Digital camera
Vehicles, tricycles, toy cars, etc.

Run/jump/crawl/climb/hop/ride
Find/explore/look/dig/build
Play/pretend/make believe