Personal Social Emotional Development
– Encourage your child to say please and thank you
– Encourage your child to take his / her own coat on/off
– When playing with your child support them in sharing toys
– Allow them to choose some toys themselves and reflect on opinions about these toys: e.g. this is my favourite doll/car
– Ensure that your child is able to go to the toilet unaided
– Try to support your child in taking turns with others
– Encourage your child to talk about their feelings
Physical Development
– Encourage your child to handle small and large equipment
– Allow your child to use scissors and develop their skills
– Allow your child to run, hop, skip, jump, and find different ways of travelling
– Play games such as follow the leader and change actions to develop motors skills and co-ordination
– Discuss changes to their bodies after exercise; heart beating faster feeling hot etc.
Communication and language
– Encourage your child to sing/say songs and rhymes and tell their own stories
– Make shapes of letters out of play dough: write them in sand: write their own name in the air
– Sing alphabet songs and talk about the names of the letters an the sounds that they make
– Ask your child about words that rhyme e.g. mouse house/ cat hat
– To increase vocabulary and identify sounds: play word games such as I spy
– Allow your child to select books for themselves: ones that interest him/her. Picture books with repetitive basis language such as those by Julia Donaldson
– Encourage your child to “read” what is happening in the pictures. Prompt them to tell you a sentence about what is happening.
Literacy – Reading and writing
– Provide fact and fiction books
– Encourage children to predict outcomes to think of alternative endings, compare feelings of characters with their own feelings
– Support and scaffold children’s reading as opportunities arise.
Mathematics
– Practice counting; ask how many altogether which number is one more? Etc.
– Point out numbers when out for a walk house car shop.
– Encourage identifying shapes round wheel round plate square road sign
– Sing number songs
Understanding the World
– Talk to your child about special times: birthdays weddings
– Encourage exploration of other places outdoors zoo
– Allow to observe animals and describe them
– Allow simple use of tools: trowel small fork
– Encourage description of different surfaces hard soft rough smooth.
Expressive art and design
– Allow your child to listen to and sing songs
– Explore different media felts crayons paint play-dough
– Encourage cutting and sticking games
– Encourage child to dance to music do actions to songs.
