Creative Play Early Learning Goals
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Self Regulation
The intent for your children must be for them to:
- Show an understanding of their feelings and those of others, and begin to regulate their behaviour accordingly.
- Set and work towards simple goals, being able to wait for what they want and control their immediate impulses when appropriate.
- Give focused attention to what the teacher says, respond appropriately even when engaged in the activity, and show an ability to follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.
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Communication and Language
Listening, Attention and Understanding
The intent for your children must be for them to:
- Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions.
- Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding.
- Hold conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges with their teacher and peers.
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Expressive Arts and Design
Being Imaginative and Expressive
The intent for your children must be for them to:
- Invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and
- their teacher.
- Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs.
- Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and (when appropriate) try to move in time with the music.
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Being Imaginative and Expressive
Maths
Numeracy
The intent for your children must be for them to:
- Have a deep understanding of numbers up to 10, including the composition of each number.
- Subtilise (recognise quantities without counting) up to 5.
- Automatically recall (without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids) number bonds up to 5 (including subtraction facts) and some number bonds to 10, including double facts.
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Understanding the World
Past and Present
The intent for your children must be for them to:
- Talk about the lives of the people around them and their roles in society.
- Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.
- Understand the past through settings, characters and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling.
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