Welcome to the SUMMER TERM 2012!! I hope that you all had a good Easter holiday. Hopefully the following information will be useful to you and will enable you to support your child’s learning at home. Our topic work this term will be ‘Our World’. We will be investigating helping plants grow, habitats, Roman people of importance, improving the environment, designing and making a pop-up book, introduction to databases and collecting and interpreting graphs. We would be grateful if you have any interesting artefacts, photographs or books related to any of the above that we might borrow, or if you have any personal experiences or expertise in these areas, you might like to share with the class. Any internet research will be more meaningful to your child if it is restricted to pictures or materials specifically prepared for children. It would be helpful if you could continue to practise mental addition and subtraction, and the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10 times tables. Please help your child by testing and reciting the tables in a fun way. Don’t forget to keep asking them to tell the time through everyday activities. Some of the Literacy activities will develop different styles of writing. Your child will continue to be given spellings to learn in class each week. We encourage the use of “look, say, cover, write, check” when learning spelling patterns. Each child should bring their reading book on their reading day and the children will be given opportunities to read a variety of library books. Your child might like to make a simple comment, relating to likes/dislikes in their reading record. Asking questions such as “why did he do that?” or “what do you think happens next?” would help children in understanding text and aid comprehension work. P.E. is still on a Tuesday – all children need to bring their P.E. kit to change into for every lesson. Thank you, once again, for your continued support.