Maths and Numeracy

• Use objects, pictures and fingers to add two groups together.
• Know that the last number counted is the answer.
• Use objects, pictures and fingers to take away.
• Know that when you add, the total is bigger and when you subtract the number gets smaller.

• Use everyday objects such as toys etc. to solve calculations.
• Help your child to write sums using the symbols +, -, =.

Literacy

• Continue to learn the sounds of the letters of the alphabet and form these correctly in our writing.
• Continue to recognise the common words we are learning and identify these in our reading books.
• Begin to spell the common words we have learned correctly and use these in our own writing.

• Encourage your child to write in their everyday lives and play.
• Allow your child to write lists.  For example shopping lists, lists for Santa, lists of ways they can help at home etc.

Health and Wellbeing

• Discuss the values of honesty, fairness, responsibility.
• Discuss similarities and differences.  Develop an understanding that it is okay to be different.

• Talk about times you have  shown the core values and how this made you feel.

Religious Education

• Learn that advent is a time of waiting.
• Reflect on Christmas as a special time for the Christian community.
• Participate in activities that strengthen or knowledge of the nativity story.

• Set up a crib and talk about the important role of each of the figures.

Across The Curriculum

• Investigate the different properties of water.

• Talk about ice, snow, frost, steam etc.