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** Summer Term **

__**This term we will be learning about the Great Outdoors and the Farm**__

**__Language Literacy and Communication__**
==We will be learning our sounds and form them correctly using shaving foam, playdough and paints. We will retell and sequence our stories thinking about beginning, middle and end. ==


 * ==writing a diary ==
 * ==letter writing ==
 * ==writing labels for our farm yard and Garden Centre ==
 * == looking at speech marks and speech bubbles ==
 * == writing invitations for our Barn Dance ==

**__ Speaking and Listening __**
==Speaking and Listening will be devloped through all areas of the curricuum. Children will be given the opportunity to develop their skills through role play activities, Show and Tell and spending time with our special friend Spencer Bear. ==

**__Mathematical Development__**
==We will consolidate our numbers to 10 and recognise numbers to 20, forming them using different media. We will be learnng to add and subtract within 5 makng sure we understand more and less. ==

**__ICT__**
== This term we will be developing our mouse control skills to create pictures related to our theme. The children will be given the opportunity to use the Interactive whiteboard, digital camera and Easispeak microphones (to record songs or role play) to develop thir ICT skills. ==

**__Knowledge And Understanding Of The World__**
==This term our focus will be on life processes and living things. We will be planting potatoes and sunflowers and observing their growth. This provides excellent opportunities to discuss what plants and animals need to grow. We will sequence the lifecycles of caterpillars and tadpoles and think about what animals can give us and why they were used in the past. We will look at different habitats and appreciate the importance of our environment. == ==We will be reaping the rewards of planting our own vegetables by making a Summer potato salad and use fresh fruit to make a healthy summer ice cream! ==

**__Welsh__**
==We will use welsh everyday as part of our daily routine, learn simple greetings, colours, seasons and shapes. New vocabulary will be introduced t the class linked to the farm and lifecycles and contiue with incidental welsh. Welsh poems to learn this term:- ==

=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> Animals Ci-dog, Buwch-cow, Ceffyl-horse, Mochyn-pig, Iar-chicken, Hwyadden-duck, Dafad-sheep = = = =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Lifecycles -Broga-frogs Penbwla-tadpole Bwrw grawn-frogspawn Pila pala-butterfly Lindys-caterpillar =

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**__PSWBCD__**
==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">An emphasis this term will be looking at the aspect of caring for others, animals and human. Using our story books, Farmer Duck and Lazzie Ozzie we encounter the mistreatment of animals. Circle time activities will encourage the children to think about how they would feel if someone mistreated them. ==

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Physical Development__**
==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We will continue developing our fine motor skills through cutting, folding, colouring and threading. During our P.E sessions we will be developing our throwing and catching skills through a variety of games and using different equipment. We will develop simple co-operative and competitive games and to play these fairly and safely. ==

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Creative Development__**
==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Children will be developing their observation skills and base their art work on Andy Warhol to reproduce their favourite farm animal using a variety of media aswell as using the art packge 2Simple. ==

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken
==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Children will be designing their own animal masks and animal t-shirts where they will be using fabric paints. They will be evaluating their own work and the work of others. We will be making animal biscuits and concertina caterpillars. ==