Dear Parent/Carer,
Please find below details of the work that your child’s class will be doing during this term. I have also suggested ways in which you can help your child at home.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Barnes
Summer Term 2017
Theme - In The Garden
Main Areas of Study
Mathematical Development
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- Listen to and join in with rhymes, songs and stories and games that have a mathematical theme.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the purpose of money through role play
- Recite numbers from 0 to 10.
- Develop counting and number recognition skills.
- Recognise and use the names for 2D shapes (circle, square and triangle) within play activities and the environment
- Use and build with 2D and 3D shapes within play-based activities
- Use a variety of media to develop concept of symmetry
- Use words that describe temperature during everyday activities, e.g. hot/cold
Language, Literacy and Communication
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- Looking at focus letters of the week
- Recognising their names.
- Begin to overwrite names.
- Listen and join in with simple stories and songs e.g. the very hungry caterpillar.
Welsh
- Discuss the weather on a daily basis.
- Learning the names of colours and numbers.
- Learning action songs.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
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- Life cycle of the butterfly and frog.
- To look at minibeasts, go on a minibeast walk.
- Collect and examine natural objects under magnifying glasses.
- To look at colour in the world around us.
Personal and Social Education.
- Circle time – sharing ideas and opinions.
- Looking at ourselves, keeping fit, healthy eating, brushing teeth, handwashing etc.
Ways Which You Can Help At Home
- Please send in any interesting objects/photographs to school (not valuable items please)
- Please share your child's library book at home every night (a Reading Diary is provided for you to make comments)
- Please bring library books in to school on a Tuesday ready to have a new book sent home on Wednesday.
- P.E lessons will take place after half-term, day to be confirmed.
- We offer the children a variety of fruit. Please send in £1 for fruit on a Monday
