These topics will be covered during December:

• Tell others about celebrations they have.
• Discuss and write notes about the tasks need to be done for a celebration.
• Role-play getting ready for a celebration.
• Listen to instructions.
• Read instructions.
• Speak clearly and precisely when giving instructions.
• Use time words in instructions.
• Know that instructions tell them how to do something.
• Know the main features of instruction text.
• Answer questions about a text.
• Add suffixes and prefixes to words.
• Make unclear sentences more clear.
• Use capital letters and full stops.
• Read texts carefully and look for information in them.
• Use the information to answer questions about the text.
• Write a recipe using a template and features they have identified in other instruction texts.
• List the features of instructions.
• Use these features in writing their own instructions
• Check and change their text to make sure that all the features are used correctly.

• These topics will be covered during December:

  1.     Subtract mentally a 3-digit number and 10s, solve missing number problems.

  2.     Subtract mentally a 3-digit number and 100s.

  3.     Solve problems and reason mathematically.

  4.     Find right angles in 2-D shapes.

  5.      Give and follow instructions to make turns.

  6.     Test whether an angle is greater than or less than a right angle.

  7.     Count in multiples of 4.

  8.     Recall the multiplication and division facts for the multiplication table.

  9.     Use doubling to recall the 4 multiplication table.

  10.  Multiply a tens number by 4.

  11.  Write a multiplication statement that matches a division statement.