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Settling in and becoming a confident learner
First milestone
Children make a strong relationship with their key person. Increasingly, they separate confidently from their main carer at the start of the day and become involved in their play, they use their key person or buddy as a ‘secure base’ throughout the session, ‘touching base’ as/when needed.
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Second milestone
Children take part in pretend play, communicating and negotiating with their peers, becoming more independent.
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Third milestone
Children persevere with difficulties. They make comments about their learning and play, they show pleasure/pride in what they have done. Beginning to show self-regulation.
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Final milestone
Children reflect on their learning, through their learning journals/family books. They comment on their ‘thinking’ and the way they go about their learning. They reflect on what helps them to persevere through difficulties and what helps them when they find things hard. Children talk about what they and others are learning and thinking (metacognition).
Making playdough independently
First milestone
With adult support, children
mix different ingredients, including sand and
water, flour They mix substance in
areas such as the mud kitchen/sand area
introducing a playdough recipe card, and water to make simple.
playdough. They use the following tools:
wooden spoons, sieves, scoops, rolling pins, cutters and knives.
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Second milestone
In a small group, children follow the steps in making a playdough with an adult. The adult draws children’s attention to the recipe cards. With adult scaffolding, children use measures (teaspoon, tablespoon, cup etc) and tip in the ingredients. With adult scaffolding, they roll the playdough.
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Third milestone
Children follow the steps in making a Playdough with the adult. They independently fill measures carefully to the top (teaspoon, tablespoon, cup) they recognise the numerals in the recipe cards. When they count our quantities. They say the number in the correct orders 1 2 3 4 and they know the last number they say is 4, is the total number of spoonful’s they have added.
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Final milestone
Children follow the steps of a playdough recipe independently. They measure ingredients, mix them, to create the playdough independently.
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Becoming a confident mover
First milestone
Enjoys starting to kick, throw and catch balls fitting themselves in different spaces, beginning to climb with adult support. To move independently while outside to use a scuttle bug.
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Second milestone
Child enjoy climbing steps/stair and apparatus, child balance and continue to develop movement/ball and trike skills starting to peddle, beginning to jump with both feet off the floor, introducing co-ordination, Using a balance bike. Introducing the midline.
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Third milestones
Starting to use movement such as skipping, hopping, balancing on one leg, can jump with two feet off the ground confidently, being more ware of co-ordination, can pedal a trike more confident in the midline.
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Final milestone
Has good co-ordination.
Children will practise and refine rolling, crawling, jumping, walking, running etc can ride bike. Starting to develop over all body strength, Co-ordination, balance, dodging and agility skills. confident in midline
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Make up your own story
First milestone
Children take part in pretend play, making up to developing a story.
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Second milestone
Children take part in shared reading. They respond to the features of these stories. Children engage in number rhymes with props and join in with the actions.
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Third milestone
Children take part in telling a story with adult help or can create their own story of their day using pictorial cards/white board. They begin to become familiar of the way stories are structured E.g Helicopter story telling.
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Final milestone
Children use tools to develop the character, setting, problem and solution for their story. They tell their story to one or more people, helicopter story
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Becoming confident in numbers
First milestone:
Children will sing number songs, rhymes, will be able to use words when playing such as more, less, fewer lots, all gone.
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Second milestone
Children will verbally counting to 10, and opportunities to count sets of objects up to 5 that is purposeful. Knowing numbers of significance such as age, house number, number of the day.
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Third milestone
Children will be counting sets up to 10 and be shown that the last number they count is the amount they have, children will start to use 5 frames.
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Forth milestone
Children will be matching amounts with numerals and will start to look at one more and one less, while playing and doing activities they will be able to represent these with marks, children will start to use a 10 frame
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Challenge
Children start to estimate small quantities of objects without counting, use a 10 frame with confidence. Children start to subitise in games using a dice, dominos and in activities. Understanding one more, one less.
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Make marks that have meaning
First milestone
Children can use the muscles in their hand and arms to make big movements and bring together hand eye co- ordination.
Children will increasingly become confident in engaging in activities such as: throwing and catching balls, big bubble trouble, exploring a musical instrument, playdough, and paint.
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Second milestone
Children make marks with their fingers and some tools. Children will engage in a variety of ways to make marks e.g. mark making in dough/clay/sand, holding a paintbrush to make marks or using chalk on the ground in the garden.
Third milestone
As children’s mark making develops, they make more small, controlled movements and can draw lines and circles. They can distinguish between these marks e.g. ‘line, circle, zig zag’ they begin to use anticlockwise movements and retrace vertical lines. Children are familiar with language of directionally such as ‘up down, round and round’, Crossing the midline.
Children can find their name card and are look at it when attempting to write their name.
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Final milestone
Children hold their pen or pencil with a comfortable grip. They may attempted to form letters of significance correctly, with dominated hand
Using kitchen utensils safely
First milestone
with adult support, children to safely use spoons, small rolling pins, Montessori two handed choppers, butter knife for spreading, two handed mashers for soft fruits, sieve for flour and safe use of cookie cutters.
Second milestone
Using Montessori one- and two-handed choppers and butter knives independently with less support having a firmer grip to chop harder foods. Using scissors to cut and chop herbs. One handed whisk for mixtures introduce plastic knife, peeler, and grater with full adult support. Start to use the electric whisk and blender with adult support.
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Third milestone
To use all explored utensils with increasing independence. To introduce metal bread knife to cut bread, cheese, banana, apple etc, start to use the electric whisk and blender more independently.
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Final milestone
To use all utensils safely and independently with no adult support
Becoming Confident in self care
First milestone
Children can recognise their own peg/home pouch and are able to collect they coat, shoes and wellies from under their peg. Child with adult support will be able to wash their hands, blow their noses, pour own drink and during nappy change help to dress. May start to recognise if their nappy needs changing.
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Second milestone
Children will understand the need to cough into their inner arm and blow nose with a prompt, putting on coat and shoes with more independence may need help fastening. Able to pull up and down clothing and use toilet with less support or knows they need to be changed. show an interest in oral support. toilet needs such as wiping with less support, beginning to understand the need for healthy food and more independence in pouring and self-serving.
Third milestones
Can independently put on coat/shoes but maybe on the wrong feet and fasten, children are able to blow nose using pinch and pull method and can wash hands and lend support to other children. Can ask for help in the toileting asking adult to check after wiping. Understanding how to be healthy and the importance of looking after you teeth.
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Final milestone
Children are fully independent in toileting, washing hands, dressing and undressing, making healthy choices, bowing own knows and know when it needs blowing, how and why we brush our teeth and can self serves foods
Becoming confident in numbers
First milestone
Children will sing number rhymes, songs and will be able to use number language in play such as age, house number, less, fewer, all gone, begin to count but may not be in numerical order.
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Second milestone
Children will be able to verbally count to 10, and opportunities to count sets of objects up to 5 that is purposeful. Knowing number have meaning
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Third milestones
children will be able to count sets to to 10 and be shown that they last number they count is the amount they have, children will start to understand and use a 5/10 frame.​
Fourth milestone
Children will be matching amounts with numerals and will start to look at one more and one less, while playing and participating in activates they will start to represent numbers with marks , usde of 10 fame more confidently.
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Challenge
Children start to estimate small quantities of objects without counting, use of the 10 frame with confidence. Children start to subitise in games using dice, dominos in activities. Understanding one more, one less.
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Design and Build
First milestone
Children will begin to explore building equipment and will enjoy building towers and the knocking the down. Child will explore and investigate the idea of balance, gravity, motion
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Second milestone
Children will be able to build a tower with 10 of more objects and will start to add other blocks and materials to expand their building beginning to have an idea of what they are make exploring balancing and will have more of a try again attitude when things aren’t working
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Third milestone
Children will start to have a plan of what they are going to make and the materials they may need to achieve their goal, starting to plan using pencil and paper with looking at the idea of height. Be able to vocalise more clearly to adults, start to find ways to modify their creations when things aren’t working.
​Final milestone
Children will have a clear plan of what they would like to make and are able to make a design in their mind and are able to draw a detailed plan on paper and describe their plan to adults and their peers, know when something is not working and will need to explore ways to modify.
Science Program
Woodlands has created our own Science program to introduce the children to the world of Science.
Early years is about exploring and investigating the world, and about having fun and playing. EYFS science combines these two key elements, which are crucial to establishing a lifelong love of learning. It also connects all other areas of learning, from language (describing what’s happening in an experiment, learning new vocabulary) to maths and engineering (modelling, construction).
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Here are some of our experiments:
Dancing Raisins
Planting Seeds
Exploring Magnets
Sinking and Floating
Vinegar Volcanos
Foil Boats
Colour Test Tubes
balloon Car
will it/won't it Dissolve?
Fire Works in a jar
Rain Cloud in a Jar
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