Reception End of Year Expectations Working to achieve

Reception - End of Year Expectations Working to achieve the Early Learning Goals.

What is the Early Years Foundation Stage?

EYFS is made up of 17 areas of the Early Years curriculum. Key skills development: not just about subjects! Includes Wider curriculum areas Communication and Language Physical Development Speaking Moving and Handling Listening and attention Health and Self-care Understanding the world Personal, Social and Emotional People and Places Development The World Self confidence and self awareness Technology Managing feelings and behaviour Making relationships Expressive Arts and Design Exploring and using media and Materials Being imaginative Literacy R&W Maths Number & SSM

Expert curriculum All about me Festivals and Foods Habitats Traditional Tales Superheroes Space

Early Learning Goals – End of Year Expectations Reading Decoding I can read short sentences made up of words like ‘go’ and ‘you’. I can read words that I can say each of the sounds in like ‘pig’ or ‘pen. ’ Comprehension I can tell you about the characters in a story and what happens in a story after I have read it.

How can you help your child at home to ensure that they achieve these Reading Early Learning Goals? Some suggestions… • Make a puppet theatre with me from a cardboard box and puppets, cut of comics or pictures from websites, to help me make up new stories. • Make and play games with me that use letters or words. • Play games where you give me an instruction like “Can you j-um-p? ” or “Can you h-o-p? ” and I have to put the sounds of the word together and show you the action.

Early Learning Goals – End of Year Expectations Writing Segmenting I can say the sounds I hear in a word like ‘b-a-g’ and know which letters I need to match the sounds. I can write other useful words like ‘the’ and ‘was. ’ I can write short sentences like ‘I can skip. ’ that my friends and adults can read. I can write some words and sometimes I use what I know about sounds and letters to write words.

How can you help your child at home to ensure that they achieve these Writing Early Learning Goals? Some suggestions… • Make a pretend shop with me and let me write the price lists. • Make number plates with me for my cars. • Make a photo book of our family or when we went to the park and let me write my own words in it.

Early Learning Goals – End of Year Expectations Maths Number I can use numbers from 1 -20 in the right order when I am counting things or singing rhymes. I can tell you what one more or one less is when you tell me a number. I can add groups of two things together and tell you how many I have altogether. I can take things way from a group to tell you how many I have left. I can solve problems that are important to me like sharing snacks between me and my friends, so that we have the same number. I can find doubles of numbers to 10.

How can you help your child at home to ensure that they achieve these Maths - Number Early Learning Goals? Some suggestions… • Plan a picnic with me and let me decide how many sandwiches and bananas we will need. • Make a number line with me using birthday cards. • Play number snap or bingo with numbers that we’ve cut of a magazine. • Sing number songs where I have to count backwards like “Five Little Ducks” or “Ten Fat Sausages”.

Early Learning Goals – End of Year Expectations I can use words: • • Maths Shape and space to talk about size e. g. big or small, to talk about weight e. g. light or heavy, to talk about capacity e. g. full or half full, to talk about position e. g. in or under, to talk about distance e. g. Near or far, to talk about time e. g. night, day, o’clock, to talk about money e. g. pence and pounds. I can make patterns and tell you about them. I can describe 2 D and 3 D shapes using mathematical language e. g. flat, solid, sides, faces.

How can you help your child at home to ensure that they achieve these Maths – Shape, Space and Measure Early Learning Goals? Some suggestions… • Let me sort out the pairs of shoes so that they go from small to big. • Let me make patterns with buttons or lids, like “big, small, big”. • Let me give you instructions for an obstacle course, like “Go under the blanket”.

Reminder about homework: We send specific homework tasks out each Thursday. Please complete and return by the following Tuesday. There is also: • Green Set 1 sound book to flash through with your child, to check their recognition of the sounds we have taught -Try to do this twice a week. • Spelling Shed – Red word practise • Once children can blend sounds for reading - Phonic Book/RWI book to read at home every day. Please sign the yellow reading record every day to say they have read. What is the impact of home reading? The impact of 20 mins of reading with your child at home every day is immense. It is an easy way to help them to not only keep up with, but also to be ahead of their peers.

Thank you! Any questions?