New year ...... New Beginnings.....

HI and welcome back to a brand new Year!!!!!
I trust you all had a great Christmas and New Year and santa brought you lots of interesting things.... I am however still waiting for my Chrstmas Present .. i think he got lost somewhere over the Artic!

So to a new year.. this half term our topic is 'Castles, Knights and Princesses'.....with a trip to an actual medieval castle!

Literacy:
This half term we are going traditional tale mad.... reading, ordering, plotting it on a story mountain and making our own comics ... and writing our own versions of the stories.

Here are the stories we are reading if you would like to read with your child.
Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Enormous Turnip
The Magic Porridge Pot
Cinderella
Rapunzel


Children will be working to their target every week and writing their own version of a story. Please ask your child or come and speak to your class teacher about the targets your child has and how you can help them.

Numeracy:
This half term is all multiplication and division...

We will be ensure children can count in 2, 5, 10's - double and halve and know their multiplication facts.
I will be running a club on Friday lunchtime where children can go against the clock in a quick fire round to test their mental maths skills. Pass and they get a prize and a head teachers award!!

Look out for the home work to learn the facts...

I will be running a numeracy afternoon where we I will run through how we teach multiplication and division on the 14th January in Class 2 after school..


Guided reading and phonics:
The sounds we are concentrating on is /ee/ and /igh/ i will end out a sheet with the alternative speelings and words for the children to learn in week 1.

Please look out for this and help your child learn the spellings.

Guided reading is all about traditional tales and we will be learning to retell and sequence and read with emphasis lots of different traitional tales.


Topic:
We will be learning about Castles and the features of castles, life in castle and the battle of 1066.

It is going to be a quick half term ... with lots of exciting things happening...
Please remember to come in and have conversations with staff... we do enjoy it and look forward to your feedback!

Miss Golia
Key Stage 1 Phase Leader