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Our theme this term is ﻿﻿﻿"Rooster's off to see the World"   We will be reading stories from countries around the world and learning about life in these countries.
 * Autumn Term 2011**

From China, From Australia, From Russia **From Hawaii, From India**

This term, in **English** we will be role playing the stories and creating our own Travel Agent's Role Play Area where your children will practise taking on different roles, speaking clearly and loudly. Use of Welsh phrases shall be encouraged. ‍If you have any postcards, travel tickets, coins from other countries or souvenirs you no longer need please would you donate them for our area. We will practise our handwriting, create letters, postcards, lists and posters and learn to spell for ourselves. =‍ Reading = = Your child will be asked to read from a book and to practise words twice a week in school. Please encourage your child to practise reading at home and to talk about the stories they read. Also, please continue to read other books and comics to your children as it will help them greatly to hear good examples of how to make their reading interesting,e.g. by stopping at full stops, pausing at commas and changing their voices etc. =

In **Maths** we will continue developing your child’s number skills through practical games and carry out work on 2 and 3 D shapes and patterns, We will be practising and memorising addition number facts and using them to solve problems. We will be looking for patterns in number.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World In Science we will be looking at Foods and the fabrics used in clothes from around the World. We will also look at the animals that live in different countries. We will look at maps, atlases and the globe to learn the relative position. We will learn about different countries and some the features and foods eaten by the people who live there.

**In Welsh Development we shall continue to use Welsh incidentally throughout the day and learn Welsh words for the weather,different ways to travel and different people's feelings.**

In Creative Development ﻿ we will learning songs and poems related to our theme. We will create Chinese Fans, Indian Divas, create a weaving like a Hawaiian Quilt and look at Aboriginal Art work. We will listen to music from different countries and move creatively to it.

=Thank you for your support = =M. Cantwell and L. Haines =