Reception Curriculum

Reception - Term One


The student should be able to:

Objective

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Disposition and Attitudes
• Continue to be interested, motivated and excited to learn
• Be confident to try new activities, initiate ideas and speak in a familiar group
Social Development
• Form good relationships with adults and peers
• Understand that there needs to be agreed values and codes of behaviour for groups of people, including adults and children, to work together harmoniously
Emotional Development
• Show a developing awareness of own needs, views and feelings and is sensitive to the needs, views and feelings of others
• Consider the consequences of words and actions for self and others

Communication, Language and Literacy

Language for communication and thinking
• Use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences
• Interact with others in a variety of contexts, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversation
Linking sounds and letters
• Hear and say initial and letter sounds in words
• Link sounds to letters, naming and sounding letters of the alphabet
Reading
• Show an understanding of the elements of stories, such as main character
Writing
• Use some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning
• Hold a pencil and uses it effectively
• Represent some sounds correctly in writing

Mathematical Development

Numbers as labels and for counting
• Count reliably up to 10 everyday objects
• Say number names in order
• Order numbers, up to 10
Calculating
• Find one more or one less than a number from 1 to 10
Shape, Space and Measures
• Use everyday words to describe position
• Describe shapes in simple models, pictures and patterns
• Talk about, recognise and recreate simple patterns

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Parts of the Body and Five Senses
• Identify and recognise each part of their body
• Identify and recognise The Five Senses
• Recognise the importance of taking care of their body

Physical Development

Fine Motor Skills
• Demonstrate fine motor control and coordination
• Be able to write his name
• Be able to paste things inside big figure
• Be able to grip the pencil properly

Creative Development

My Self (Parts of the Body and five senses)
• Explore the world in a sensitive way
• Maximize the use of the potential of each sense
• Explore feelings through artistic activities
• Express feelings and preferences in response to artwork
• Develop a repertoire of actions by putting a sequence of movements together
• Engage in imaginative and role play based on own first-hand experiences

Spanish

La Gran Aventura de Comunicarnos
• Imitará trazos siguiendo la direccionalidad respectiva
• Escuchará con atención narraciones, cuentos y películas entre otros.
• Comentará en grupo descripciones de imágenes y situaciones.
• Realizará segmentación silábica oral de palabras.

Music

Learning two beat rhythmic patterns
• Learn traditional songs and games
• Learn the National anthems

Physical Education

Ajuste Corporal
• Reconocer las distintas posiciones que puede adoptar el cuerpo, y descubrir las posibilidades de equilibrio estático y dinámico, así como la independencia segmentaría.

Reception - Term Two


The student should be able to:

Objective

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Disposition and Attitudes
• Maintain attention and concentration
• Be confident to try new activities, initiate ideas and speaks in a familiar group
• Sustain involvement and perseveres, particularly when trying to solve a problem or reach a satisfactory conclusion
Social Development
• Understand that people have different needs, views, cultures and beliefs that need to be treated with respect
• Understand that there needs to be agreed values and codes of behaviour for groups of people, including adults and children, to work together harmoniously
• Take into account the ideas of others
Emotional Development
• Understand what is right, what is wrong and why
• Consider the consequences of words and actions for self and others

Communication, Language and Literacy

Language for communication and thinking
• Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events, exploring the meanings and sounds of new words
• Speak clearly and with confidence and control, showing awareness of the listener
Linking sounds and letters
• Hear and say initial and final letter sounds in words
• Link sounds to letters, naming and sounding letters of the alphabet
• Uses phonics to read simple regular words
Reading
• Reads a range of familiar and common words and simple sentences independently
• Retell narrative in the correct sequence, drawing on language patterns of stories
• Show an understanding of the elements of stories, such as sequence of events and openings
Writing
• Write own name and other words from memory
• Hold a pencil and uses it effectively to form recognizable letters, most of which are correctly formed
• Represent some sounds correctly in writing
• Attempt writing for a variety of purposes, using features of different forms

Mathematical Development

Numbers as labels and for counting
• Count reliably up to 10 everyday objects
• Say number names in order
• Orders numbers, up to 10
• Use developing mathematical ideas and methods to solve practical problems
Calculating
• In practical activities and discussion, begin to use the vocabulary involved in adding
• Find one more or one less than a number from 1 to 10
• Relate addition to combining 2 groups
Shape, Space and Measures
• Use language such as ‘circle’ or ‘bigger’ to describe the shape and size of solid and flat shapes
• Use language such as ‘greater’, ‘smaller’, ‘heavier’, ‘lighter’ to compare quantities

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Weather
• Identify the different weather and wears appropriate clothing

Physical Development

Fine Motor Skills
• Demonstrate fine motor control and co-ordination
• Be able to grip the pencil properly
• Be able to colour figures respecting lines

Creative Development

Mother Nature (Weather, plants and wild Animals)
• Awake their sensitivity toward nature
• Express and communicate ideas, thoughts and feelings using a range of materials
• Maximize the use different resources
• Produce an artistic piece using recycling materials

Spanish

Historias para soñar
Escribirá con la intención de expresar un mensaje de manera coherente
• Realizará grafías dentro de los límites del renglón ancho.
• Expresará situaciones cotidianas por medio de representaciones.
• Discriminación, identificación y escritura de vocales.

Music

Drawing half and quarter notes
• To perform action games
• Play and sing “call and response” games and songs
• Draw the treble clef

Physical Education

Expresión Corporal
• Descubrir habilidades expresivas que le proporciona el cuerpo. El desarrollo de la comunicación a través del movimiento corporal para relacionarse con los demás y con su entorno.

Reception - Term Three


The student should be able to:

Objective

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Disposition and Attitudes
• Recognise how their behaviour affects others
• Know who they can trust
Social Development
• Know the names of the main body parts
• Know some rules for keeping safe
• Take into account the ideas of others
Emotional Development
• Display a strong, positive sense of self-identity
• Be able to display a range of emotions fluently and appropriately

Communication, Language and Literacy

Language for communication and thinking
• Talk and listen confidently and with control, consistently showing awareness of the listener by including relevant detail
• Use language to work out and clarify ideas, showing control of a range of appropriate vocabulary
Linking sounds and letters
• Attempt to read more complex words, using phonic knowledge
• Use knowledge of letters, sounds and words when reading and writing independently
Reading
• Read some high frequency words
• Answer questions about where, who, why and how
Writing
• Write own name and other words from memory
• Attempt writing for a variety of purposes, using features of different forms
• Use phonic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts and more complex words
• Begin to form captions and simple sentences, sometimes using punctuation

Mathematical Development

Numbers as labels and for counting
• Recognise numbers up to 10
• Count numbers up to 20
• Write numerals up to 20
Calculating
• Subtract numbers from 1 to 10
• Use a range of strategies for addition and subtraction.
Shape, Space and Measures
• Use mathematical language to describe solid (3D) objects and flat (2D) shapes

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Healthy and Non-Healthy food // Plants
• Identify and differentiate healthy and non - healthy food
• Identify the parts of plants and its functions

Physical Development

Fine Motor Skills
• Be able to grip the pencil properly
• Be able to cut pictures properly

Creative Development

Still-life (Healthy and Non Healthy Food)
• Make comparisons and links between different pieces
• Express feelings and preferences in response to artwork and drama
• Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space

Spanish

Cuenta Cuentos
• Organizará e interpretará historietas y situaciones de acuerdo a una secuencia dada de 3 y 4 láminas.
• Mejorará la pronunciación y emisión de sonidos mediante la ejercitación articulatoria.
• Realizará codificación silábico-vocálica de palabras.
• Escribirá correctamente respetando el límite del renglón normal.

Music

Drawing the staff
• Learn how to follow the shape of a melody
• To move in reaction to sounds
• Clap simple rhythmic patterns (quarter and eighth notes)

Physical Education

Ritmo
• Tomar conciencia del sentido del tiempo, la velocidad, del espacio y la duración de los movimientos.
• Desarrollar experiencias perceptivas motrices que amplíen su conocimiento global de la expresión corporal

Reception - Term Four


The student should be able to:

Objective

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Disposition and Attitudes
• Know about the process of growing from young to old and how people’s needs change
• Make simple choices that improve their health and well -being
Social Development
• Recognise, name and deal with their feelings in a positive way
• Understand what improves and harms their local, natural and built environments
Emotional Development
• Recognise what they like and dislike
• Recognise what is fair and unfair

Communication, Language and Literacy

Word Level Work
• Read on sight a range of familiar words
• Write letters using the correct sequence of movements
• Be able to sound, name and write each letter of the alphabet
• Recognise, explore and working with rhyming patterns
Sentence Level Work
• Use a capital letter for the start of their own name
Reading
• Locate and read significant parts of the text, e.g. names of key characters, speech bubbles
Writing
• Think about and discuss what they intend to write, ahead of writing it
• Use experience of stories, poems and simple recounts as a basis for independent writing
• Write simple sentences to match pictures or sequences of pictures
• Distinguish between writing and drawing in books and their own work

Mathematical Development

Numbers as labels and for counting
• Recite the number names to 30
• Count a set of objects up to 20
• Estimate a number of objects and to check by counting
Calculating
• Recite the number names to 30
Shape, Space and Measures
• Sort 2D shapes according to properties
• Name simple 2D shapes

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

House and Transportation
• Identify different parts of houses
• Identify the different forms of transportation

Physical Development

Fine Motor Skills
• Be able to grip the pencil properly
• Be able to recognise that there are spaces between words.

Creative Development

Still Life (Houses and Transportation)
• Produce their own work from observing artistic pieces
• Respond to own work and that of others when exploring and communicating ideas, feelings and preferences through art, music, art, dance, role-play and imaginative play
• Express feelings and preferences in response to artwork and drama and makes comparisons and links between different pieces

Spanish

Divirtámonos Escribiendo
• Escribirá en forma silábica-vocálica palabras y oraciones
• Seguirá con mayor atención las instrucciones dadas verbalmente para realizar una actividad.
• Comentará secuencias formando cortas historias de manera coherente
• Organizará e interpretará historietas y situaciones de acuerdo a una secuencia dada de 5 y 6 láminas.

Music

Preparing for the Graduation Ceremony
• Act and sing “fairy tales”
• Clap simple rhythmic patterns

Physical Education

Espacio
• Iniciar al niño en el conocimiento y dominio del espacio.
• Reconocer e interpretar itinerarios propuestos, ocupar con el cuerpo una extensión trazada.
 
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