Lime Class

Term 2: November 2018

This term PE will be on a Tuesday and cycling on Thursday. Please ensure that your child has named kit, including suitable footwear, in school every day.

PE

Welcome to an exciting new term in Lime Class. I hope you have all had an enjoyable break and are ready for a busy term as we prepare for Christmas.

This term our topic is Christmas around the world. We will be focusing on how festive traditions and customs are celebrated in different countries, particularly those associated with Christmas.

This term we will start rehearsals for our upcoming Nativity production. The dress rehearsal to the whole school will be on Monday 10th December. Details concerning costumes will follow nearer the time. Performances will be on Tuesday 11th December, morning and afternoon and Wednesday 12th December in the morning. Christmas lunch will be on Friday 14th December when we will be wearing our festive jumpers!

We will be having our Christmas parties on Wednesday 9th December.

Kind regards

Mrs S Rignall and Mrs Richards

Term 2: Celebrations around the World

Lime Class

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Literacy • Fiction: Sharing traditional stories and

poems from around the world. Non-Fiction: Writing instructions to make a celebration cakes.

• Role-play area: Children’s choice • Reading and comprehension activities • Handwriting. • Phonics.

Maths Shape and Measure.

• Recognise and name common 2D and 3D shapes, including rectangles, squares, circles and triangles, cuboids, pyramids and spheres.

• Describe position and direction including whole turns.

Number and Place Value • Count to 20 forwards and backwards

beginning with 0 or 1, or from any given number.

• Count, read and write numbers to 20 in numerals and words.

• Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than, most and least.

• Count in multiples of 2s and 5s. Number: Addition and Subtraction.

• Use number bonds to 20.

• Add and subtract one digit numbers to 20.

• Read, write and interpret number sentences involving addition (+), subtraction (-) and equals (=).

• Solve one step problems.

Languages

(French) • Greetings

Science • Investigating the properties of

materials – waterproofing.

PE • Personal Skills: Balance and coordination

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• Christianity: Christingle

Art and DT • Firework paintings. • Printing • Christmas cooking.

PSHE

• Out and About. The first 2 weeks of term are ’Safety Fortnight’ where we will be looking at fire safety, firework safety, water safety and first aid.

Music • Traditional Christmas songs.

History • To learn about the history of the

Christmas tree.

French • Everyday language, saying please and

thank you.