Personal, Social, and Emotional Development (links to health and civics - citizenship)

1. Developing confidence and responsibility and making the most of their abilities

• Share their opinions on things that matter to them and explain their view
• Reflect on their experiences and  begin to recognize what they are good at
• Be confident to try new activities, initiate ideas and speak in a familiar group
• Maintain attention, concentrate and sit quietly when appropriate

2. Preparing to play an active role as citizens

• Recognise the choices they can make and recognize the difference between right and wrong
• Consider the consequences of their words and actions for themselves and others
• Take part in a simple debate about topical issues
• Contributes to the life of the class and school
• Begin to note that people and other living things have need and that they have responsibilities to meet them

3. Developing a healthy, safer lifestyle

• Recognise the importance of keeping healthy and begin to practise those habits which contribute to this
• Display growing awareness of playing safely, and awareness of need to act with safety in mind both in school, at home and in the neigborhood

4. Developing good relationships and respecting the differences between people

• Understand they they can expect others to treat their needs, views, cultures and beliefs with respect

Communication, Language and Literacy

1. Listening,   comprehending and   speaking

• Attend to and take account of discussions, conversations, directions, stories, songs, nursery rhymes and poems
• Begin to distinguish essential parts in description, explanation and narration
• Converse and participate in discussions in an active, polite manner
• Recount personal experiences
• Ask pertinent questions and  respond succinctly to questions

2. Language for thinking

• Begin to describe and record images and pictures in single words, phrases or simple summaries
• Use language to recount a made up story, recreate roles and experiences
• Use talk to organize, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events

3. Reflecting on language

• Begin to distinguish consonants, vowels, syllables
• Begin to differentiate and record letters, syllables, words
• Take account of and explain observations on languages they are learning
• Begin to widen vocabulary, noting relation between words

4. Reading

• Enjoys and shows interest in an increasing variety of books
• Recognizes and produces corresponding sounds for consonants, vowels and syllables.
• Explores and experiments with sounds, words and texts
• Links words to pictures/illustrations
• Reads and understands labels and words founding in their surroundings
• Begins to read written messages
• Retell narratives in correct sequence, drawing on language patterns in stores
• Notes and begins to be able to explain essential elements in a simple text, story

5. Writing

• Attempts writing for different purposes, using features of different forms such as lists, stories, poems and factual reports
• Begin to reread their writing and become familiar with the writing process of revising and final presentation
•  Use their phonic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts at more complex words
•  Begins to organize their writing on a page
•  Begins to write short stories or pieces of different types, with and without illustrations
•  Writes about a personal experience using a sequence of sentences.
•  Uses written language in creative ways: invents short stories  and begins to use and integrate computer skills in writing

6. Handwriting

• Use a pencil and hold it effectively to form lower and uppercase letters, most of which are formed correctly
• Begins to learn formation of cursive letters andstarts  practicing writing words in cursive

Mathematical Development

1. Numbers as labels and for counting

• Can count forward and backwards
• Counts reliably up to 12 objects, then up to 20 objects
• Recognises numerals 1-20
• Can order numbers l to 20
• Can give the ordinal name of numbers based on its place in the order seen
• Use developing mathematical ideas, counting and methods to solve practical problems

2. Calculating

• In practical activities and discussions begin to use math vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting
• Use language such as 'more' or 'less' to compare two numbers
• Find one more or one less of a number from 1-10, then 1 to 20
• Relates addition to the combining of two group of objects and subtraction to 'taking away'
•  Calculate the results of simple addition and subtraction using methods and different means in concrete situations

3. Problem solving

• Recognizes various problems, not only those in the mathematical world
• Identifies and begins to describe what needs to be done to solve problems
• Begins to represent  different ways that a problem can be resolved
• Solves different types of problems
• Can distinguish what ihe problem is exactly asking

4. Shape, space and measure

• Recognizes and describes spatial relations (inside/ outside, below/above etc.)
• Locates items from positional/directional clues
• Find and  follow a path and also give exact directions to others who need to follow
• Recognize principal geometric shapes and geometric solids and begin to use mathematical terms for describing shapes
• Use language such as 'longer','shorter', 'heavier', 'lighter' in comparing everyday objects
• Measure length, weigh, and use liquid measure both with a common unit of measure (unifix cube, yogurt cup) and simple tools (centimeter ruler, a balance scale)
• Instruct a programmable toy

5. Data collecting and graphing

• Observe and classify objects, figures and numbers
• Explain what attributes are being used to classify data
• Recognize, describe and recreate sequences and patterns.
• Begin to use estimating and 'good guessing' terms reasonably in probability games and concrete experiences.

Science

1. Exploration and investigation

• Compare objects and categories to find similarities and differences
• Investigate objects and materials and begin to distinguish and describe the properties of the object/material being explored
• Begin to observe what makes an experiment valid or not,
• Reflect on and record the findings in investigations, linking where possible personal experiences

2. Scientific interpretation

• Describe, illustrate and write about objects, plants animals and phenomena observed
• Categorize objects, plants and animals using one or more attributes
• Ask questions about why things happen and how things work

Design and Technology

1. Designing and making skills

• Build and construct with a wide range of objects, selecting appropriate resources and adapting their work where necessary.
• Select tools and techniques they need to shape assemble and join materials they are using

2. Information and communication technology

• Find out about and identify the uses of everyday technology
• Begin to use information and communication technol0gy to support their learning
• Complete a simple program on the computer

History and Geography

1. A Sense of time

• Find out about past and present events in their own lives and in those of their families.
• Compare surroundings and objects of today with those in the past
• Distinguish and sequence events and begin using terms more accurately describing changes in time (yesterday, last week, this morning)
• Reconstruct a situation reading or listening to clues

2. A Sense of place

• Observe, find out about and identify features in the place they live and the natural world
• Find out about their environment and talk about the features they like and dislike, and how to effect a change in their surroundings 
• Describe and represent by drawings and maps their surroundings (classroom, school grounds, neighborhood) 
• Locate objects or elements in a space based on data given
• Begin to know about and report on their own cultures and beliefs

Social Studies

1. Cultures and beliefs

• Gain an awareness of the cultures and beliefs of others
• Begin to consolidate sense of self and pride in self, recognizing what they are good at doing
• Begins to recognize and note what other classmates, persons they know are good at doing

2. Civics - preparing oneself as a citizen

• Begin to understand a sense of community and begin to contribute as a member of that community
• Contributes to and works actively to follow the rules created by the classroom/school/family community
• Begins to recognize  and define roles, routines and need for personal space in community
• Considers the consequence of their words and actions

Physical Development and Education

1. Movement

• Move with confidence, imagination and safety
• Move with control and coordination

2. A sense of space

• Travel around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment
• Show awareness of space, of themselves and others, moving the body position as needed

3. Health and bodily awareness

• Recognise the importance of keeping healthy and can explain about  what elements  contribute to this
• Recognize and describe the changes that happen to their bodies when they are active.

4. Using equipment

• Retrieve, collect and catch objects
• Uses safely a range of small and large equipment

5. Using tools and materials

• Handles tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control
• Shows preference for the use of the right or left hand when writing, cutting, constructing

Creative Development

1. Exploring media and materials

• Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two or three dimensions
• Work creatively on a large or small scale
• Choose particular colours to use for a purpose
• Experiment to create different textures

2. Music

• Recognise and explore how sounds can be changed
• Sing simple songs from memory
• Recognise repeated sounds and sound patterns
• Match movements to music and begin to move rhythmically
•  Dance freely to music and with increasing sense of interpretation
• Begin to build and use a music vocabulary (names of instruments, pitch, low, high, etc.)

3. Imagination

• Use their imagination in art and design, music, dance, imaginative and role play and stories