Class 4 - Reception Autumn 1 2014 Topic: Colour

1. Communication and Language • Listening to others and focus attention • Listening to stories • Respond to simple instructions • Retell simple past events • Begin to use more complex sentences (and, because) • Personal, Social and Emotional Development • • Play in a group • • Form relationships • • Initiate play • • Select and use activities/resources with help • • Demonstrate friendly behaviour • Show an awareness of own feelings and those of • others Physical Development • Hold a pencil with correct grip • Begin to use tools and equipment with coordination and safety • Run and negotiate space Literacy • Begin to show an awareness of rhyme and alliteration • Begin to recognise familiar words and logos • Write own name independently • Recognise, write and say letter sounds and names • Maths • • Recognise, name, order and count numbers • • Sort and categorise objects • • Begin to represent numbers using fingers, pictures or marks on paper • Make patterns Class 4 - Reception Autumn 1 2014 Topic: Colour This term we will be focussing on these skills for development Understanding the World • Talk about similarities and differences in their surroundings • Remember and talk about events in their own experiences • Comment on and ask questions about their familiar world Expressive Arts and Design • Join in with familiar songs and rhymes • Experiment with sounds and colours and how they change • Engage in imaginative role-play