Understanding of the World yearly breakdown 40-60 months- ELG
Week 1 / Week 2 / Week 3 / Week 4 / Week 5 / Week 6
Autumn 1 / • Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experience.
• Shows an interest in technological toys with knobs or pulleys, or real objects such as cameras or mobile phones. / • Recognises and describes special times or events for family or friends.
• Shows an interest in technological toys with knobs or pulleys, or real objects such as cameras or mobile phones. / • Shows interest in different occupations and ways of life. / • Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.
• Shows care and concern for living things and the environment. / • Shows skill in making toys work by pressing parts or lifting flaps to achieve effects such as sound, movements or new images. / • Talks about why things happen and how things work.
Autumn 2 / • Shows interest in the lives of people who are familiar to them. / • Talks about why things happen and how things work.
• Knows how to operate simple equipment, e.g. turns on CD player and uses remote control. / • Shows care and concern for living things and the environment.
• Shows skill in making toys work by pressing parts or lifting flaps to achieve effects such as sound, movements or new images. / • Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experience.
• Recognises and describes special times or events for family or friends / • Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world / • Shows interest in different occupations and ways of life.
• Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.
Spring 1 / • Recognises and describes special times or events for family or friends.
• Shows interest in different occupations and ways of life. / • Shows an interest in technological toys with knobs or pulleys, or real objects such as cameras or mobile phones. / • Knows how to operate simple equipment, e.g. turns on CD player and uses remote control. / • Knows some of the things that make them unique, and can talk about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends or family. / • Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.
• Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time.
• Shows care and concern for living things and the environment. / • Knows that information can be retrieved from computers
• Talks about why things happen and how things work.
Spring 2 / • Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.
• Talks about why things happen and how things work. / • Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time.
• Shows care and concern for living things and the environment. / • Recognises and describes special times or events for family or friends.
• Shows interest in different occupations and ways of life. / • Knows how to operate simple equipment, e.g. turns on CD player and uses remote control.
• Completes a simple program on a computer. / • Knows some of the things that make them unique, and can talk about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends or family. / . • Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.
Summer 1 / • Recognises and describes special times or events for family or friends.
• Shows interest in different occupations and ways of life. / • Knows some of the things that make them unique, and can talk about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends or family. / • Knows how to operate simple equipment, e.g. turns on CD player and uses remote control.
• Shows an interest in technological toys with knobs or pulleys, or real objects such as cameras or mobile phones. / • Knows that information can be retrieved from computers / • Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.
• Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time.
• Shows care and concern for living things and the environment. / • Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.
• Talks about why things happen and how things work.
Summer 2 / • Recognises and describes special times or events for family or friends.
• Shows interest in different occupations and ways of life. / • Knows some of the things that make them unique, and can talk about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends or family. / • Knows how to operate simple equipment, e.g. turns on CD player and uses remote control.
• Shows an interest in technological toys with knobs or pulleys, or real objects such as cameras or mobile phones. / • Knows that information can be retrieved from computers / • Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.
• Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time.
• Shows care and concern for living things and the environment. / • Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change.
• Talks about why things happen and how things work.