The children -
- investigate objects and materials by using all of their senses
- find out about and identify some features of living things, objects and events they observe
- look closely at similarities, diferences, patterns and change
- ask questions about why things happend and how things work
- build and construct with a wide range of objects, selecting appropriate resources and adapting their work where necessary
- select the tools and techniques they need to shape, assemble and join the materials they are using
- find out about past and present events in their own lives and in those of their families and other people they know
- observe, find out about and identify features in the place they live and the natural world
- begin to know about their own cultures and beliefs and those of other people
- find out about their environment and talk about those features they like and dislike