Nursery Topics

Communication and Language  

Physical Development  

• To Know and join in with some familiar rhymes and songs. 

• To be able to listen to and recall familiar stories, key events, and characters. 

• To be able to understand and respond to a question or instruction that has two parts. 

• To be able to continue a conversation for many turns with an adult or friend. 

• To be able to use one handed tools and equipment with increasing control, beginning to show a preference for a dominant hand. 

• To begin to use a tripod grasp for more intricate tasks, e.g., threading, picking up small objects, using tweezers and paintbrushes. 

• To be able to put on own coat and do up zips. 

Personal, Social and Emotional Development  

Literacy  

• To be able to select and use activities in the provision-sometimes with help.    

• To be able to follow the rules in the provision and adapt to changes in routines.   

• To be able to develop positive friendships with other children.   

Our core texts this half term are:  
 

• To be able to able to make changes to songs and rhymes. 

• To be able to write some or all of their name. 

• To be able to use letter shapes in their writing 

Mathematics  

Understanding the World  

• Counting 4 – Take and give 1, 2, 3 

• Shape, space and measure 4 – Match, talk, push and pull. 

• Subitising 3 – Talk about dots. 

• Comparison 2 Compare and sort collections. 

• To be able talk about people in their community. 

•  To begin to make sense of their family history. 

• To be able to talk about a country that is significant to them, for example, their heritage, where they have been on holiday, where their family and friends are from. 

Expressive Arts and Design 

Nursery Rhymes  

• To begin to use creative and malleable materials to express their own ideas. 

• To be able to draw with increasing complexity and detail ascribing meaning as they do. 

• To be able to remember and sing songs in the correct pitch.    

• Old McDonald Had a Farm 

• 5 Little Speckled Frogs