My 5 year old

I like to talk with my friends and grown-ups and tell them what I know about the things they talk about.

I can tell you what I know about things I like to play with or things that I like to do. I ask grown-ups and my friends questions to find out more about the things I like.

I like to talk with my friends and grown-ups and tell them what I know about the things they talk about.

I can tell you what I know about things I like to play with or things that I like to do. I ask grown-ups and my friends questions to find out more about the things I like.

I know that if I take my friend’s toy or shout at them they might get upset or cross.

When I make my friend upset or cross I might get upset too or I might try to give them a hug.

I know what I should do to help me and my friends share things, keep safe and be happy.

When I am singing rhymes or songs or sharing a story with a grown up, I am able to listen really carefully to what is happening.

I can listen to what you tell me you want me to do and then I can do it.

I can use lots of words to tell you about something that I have made or something that I have done.

I like to move in different ways like running, skipping, hopping, jumping or rolling.

I can move on my feet, back and tummy to get over, under, along or through tunnels, climbing frames and steps.

I can push, pat, throw, catch or kick things like a large ball, a balloon or piece of fabric.

I can use different things like scissors, paintbrushes, pens, hammers or bricks to make the things I want.

When I use a pen, pencil or paintbrush I am beginning to be able to make anti clockwise circle marks and lines that go down and up and up and down.

I write letters that you can begin to recognise. The letters I write are often a mixture of capital and lower case letters.

I can tell you lots of words that rhyme with a word like 'hat'.

I can say each of the sounds in a short word like 'cat'. When you say each of the sounds like 'c-a-t' I can put the sounds together and tell you the word. I can write each of the letters I need to write the word.

I can read short sentences which are made of up words like 'the' or 'and' and words that I can say each of the sounds in like 'hat' or 'dog'.

I use my favourite stories to help me make up my own stories when I am dressing up or using toy people or animals.

When I am interested in things, I can look in books or on websites to find out more things.

I can guess how many things I can see in a bucket and then count them to see how close my guess was.

I can tell you which basket or bucket has got 'more' or 'fewer' things in.

I can put two baskets of things together and tell you how many things I have altogether.

I can tell you what 'one more' is when you say a number.

I can tell you what 'one more' or 'one less' is when you give me a group of up to 5 things, then up to 10 things.

I can use words like 'more', 'add', 'less' and 'take away'.

I can use marks and pictures to show you my counting.

I can use counting to help me solve problems that are important to me, like splitting my sandwich in half to share with my friend.

I like you to use new words to talk to me about what I am doing or what I am using. Then I like to try to use these new words as I am playing.

I can pretend to be different people and can pretend to do different things, like being a nurse and making sick patients better with bandages and care.

I can use words like 'first', 'next' and 'then' when I am telling you a story or telling you about something I have done.

When I am dressing up or playing with toy people I like to make up stories using what I know, what I have seen or what I have heard to help me.