Term 3

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas break! The Team in Year R would like to wish you a very happy and healthy new year! We are now beginning term 3 and our topic for this term is 'traditional tales'. 

We will be exploring lots of well-known traditional tales such as 'The Three Little Pigs' and 'Jack and the Beanstalk' as well as learning three new traditional tales: 'The Gigantic Turnip' by Aleksei Tolstoy,  'No Dinner' by Jessica Souhami and 'The Great Race' (the story of the Chinese zodiac) by Dawn Casey. 

This term in Maths we will be comparing numbers as well as securing our knowledge around number. We have started the Term looking at positional language in Maths such as in, on, next to and above. 

In phonics, we will begin our phase 3 sounds. There will be lots of new digraphs and trigraphs to learn this term and new tricky words too. As always, we will inform you of the sounds we have learnt each week in the newsletter. Any additional practice with these at home would be really beneficial as it is starting to get quite tricky now! Please do ask if you need any support with practising phonics/reading at home.  We will learn a specific rhyme to help us remember each phoneme/ grapheme, so it is really helpful to use these at home too. In English we will begin to read and sequence captions and also write labels and simple captions too, using the sounds that we know.