Before the lesson
Learning Objectives
- To understand how to sort and categorise objects.
- To explain how items have been sorted and categorised.
EYFS outcomes
Communication and language
- Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences.
- Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities, and to explain how things work and why they might happen.
- ELG: Listening, attention and understanding: Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding.
- ELG: Speaking: Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary.
Mathematics
- Count objects, actions and sounds
- Subitise
- Count beyond ten
- Compare numbers
- Understand the ‘one more than/one less than’ relationship between consecutive numbers
- Continue, copy and create repeating patterns
- Compare length, weight and capacity
Characteristics of Effective Learning
- Playing and exploring
- Active learning
- Creating and thinking critically
Outcomes taken from Development Matters, 2021.
ELGs taken from the Statutory framework for the EYFS, 2021.
Activity
Teacher notes
Key vocabulary
Observations
Next steps
Make a note of any specific next steps for individual children.