1. Welcome back after a busy holiday. To all you Mums and Dads we understand it’s a big milestone for you as well as your child being in school all day. We will take special care of them. We have a busy year to look forward to! Miss Wassall and team! Reading: We will be learning to read by having Guided Reading sessions weekly. We will change our individual books every Friday. PE: Thursday ( Indoor kit) Music is on Wednesdays. We start school at 8.50 am. Visit to Margam park Fairy Tale kingdom–Tbc Fruity Friday – 18/9/15 Inset day – 25/9/15 Fe fi Fo Fum day- children to wear green 17/9/15 Trip Trap Trop – 14/10/15 What’s in your basket? Children to wear red 10/11/15 Anti-bullying week 2/11/15 Builders day children to wear jeans and check shirt Date to be comfirmed Tecniquest Fairy Tales - TBC Photographs – 12/11/15 Parents Evening 23/11/15 and 24/11/15 Fruit – 30p a day Please could you make sure your child’s name is on all their school clothes. Sometimes the children may come home a little dirty or have some paint on their clothing. All care will be taken to try to minimise this, but we like the children to be ‘hands on’ with their learning! They will also spend a lot of time learning outdoors so make sure that their uniform is warm and comfy.

2. Once upon a time! …. In the hall we will be listening to commands and using our feet to do lots of walking, running, skipping and hopping. We will be counting to 20. 1 more/less, 2 more/less, place value and ordering of numbers. Recognising and writing our numbers to 10. Investigating number patterns. Learning the names of 2D and some 3D shapes Following directions. We will be looking at our feelings and how to keep our bodies healthy. We will also be Learning the importance of friends and family. We will also be learning to Share and to listen to and follow our class rules. We will be answering the register in Welsh and asking Pwy wyt ti? – Who are you? They will also be learning about the Weather and colours. We will also be counting to 5. We will be investigating texture and describing how it feels. We will also be singing lots of songs. In Music we will be listening to music and playing along to the beat. Play lots of games with your child and talk lots!! Read my reading book with an adult. Help your children to write their sounds. Let them help around the home, giving them little jobs to do. This all helps with their independence. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=fairy+tales http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/ http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=1 Listening to lots of stories. We will be learning a story called- The Gingerbread man. We will also be changing the story. Learning our sounds with Jolly Phonics. Learning to spell CVC words. Sequencing letters and words Emergent writing- writing recounts of our visits. Writing poems. Writing a list/drawing pictures for Santa We will be investigating different materials and describing them. We will sequence our school day. http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk