Activity 1

Communication Activities

• Feely Bag
• Show & Tell
• Odd One Out
• Robot Movements
• Blind Drawing

• CL/1.1 listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions
• CL/1.2 make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding
• CL/1.3 hold conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges with their teacher and peers
• CL/2.1 participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary
• CL/2.3 express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from their teacher

Activity 2

Listening Activities

• Listening Walk
• Volume
• What's That Noise
• Repeating Rhythms
• Follow The Sound

• CL/1.1 listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions
• CL/1.2 make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding
• CL/1.3 hold conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges with their teacher and peers
• CL/2.1 participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary
• CL/2.3 express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from their teacher

Activity 3

Developing Vocabulary

• I Spy
• Categories
• Once Upon A Time
• In The Bag

• CL/1.3 hold conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges with their teacher and peers
• CL/2.1 participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary
• CL/2.2 express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from their teacher
• CL/2.3 express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from their teacher

Activity 4

Nursery Rhymes

• Traditional Rhymes
• Rhymes With Numbers
• Rhymes With Actions
• Rhymes With Repetition

• CL/1.1 listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions
• CL/1.2 make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding
• CL/2.2 offer explanations for why things might happen, making use of recently introduced vocabulary from stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems when appropriate
• AD/2.2 sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs
• AD/2.3 perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and – when appropriate – try to move in time with music