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

 Theme - In The Garden

 Mathematical Development

• • 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

• • 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

• • 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.

• 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