Curriculum Overview for Foundation Stage 2 – Term 1 Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Play, share and take turns with other children.
Literacy
Talk about the characters, settings and events in a story.
Predict how stories might end.
Talk and listen to others.
Hear and say sounds in words and use these sounds to write words and sentences.
Solve problems and conflict using compromise.
Blend sounds together to read words and sentences.
Have confidence to try new activities.
Share ideas and opinions.
Understand and talk about our own feelings and behaviour, and that of others.
Use storybook language in our play and to tell our own stories.
To talk about what we have read.
Mathematics
Enjoy number games and number
problems.
Communication
& Language
Join in with reading familiar stories, such as The Little Red Hen.
Talk about the events in these stories, explaining how and why things happen.
Recognise and use numerals to twenty.
Count objects accurately.
Solve simple addition and subtraction problems.
Talk about time, money, length, height and weight.
Play with, sort, name and describe a range of shapes. Develop our range of vocabulary.
Understanding the
World
Use language to create role play games.
Talk about our own past and present.
Understand that we can have different interests to our friends.
Concentrate on an activity and focus our attention.
Use simple computer programs and technological devices.
Look at plants, objects and animals, comparing them and describing the changes we see.
Physical
Development
Move with control in a range of ways, such as hopping, skipping and jumping.
Use a range of balls, beanbags, hoops and other equipment with increasing control.
Hold a pencil with good control and use it to form letters correctly.
Know how to stay fit and healthy.
Show interest and curiosity in the world around us. Expressive
Arts & Design
Learn a range of songs and dances.
Experiment and play with colours, sounds and textures.
Use resources such as cellotape, glue and scissors to create models.
Build and create using junk modeling resources, drawings, paintings, dance and role play.
Act out stories and role play games with friends.