I hope you continue to be well and are finding these blogs useful. Use any suggestions here as you see fit - my own children have derived a lot of learning (and fun) through making a mess in the kitchen...I mean cooking brownies.
Hopefully the weblinks will work today - this website is fab:
This page will relate to our trip to Colchester Castle but you can search the website for anything that your child is interested in.
Maths
On Monday I mentioned the website:
This is good for generating calculations for the children to practice different methods to solve them. I thought today I would spend some time explaining these methods in a bit more detail.
Addition - Selection
Firstly, once you have got to the above website, choose the correct calculations for your child.
For Year 1's, choose "Up to 25" and for Year 2's choose "Two-Digit Numbers." Obviously this is a generalisation and feel free to use whichever one works best for you child. Try "Two-Digit Numbers With Carrying" if they are super confident. When you have made your choice, use the "Manual" tab so it is not a timed race.
Addition - Methodology
For those using "Up to 25" focus on the use of a number line to solve these. You can visit this website to create your own number lines:
Alternatively, rulers and tape measures are themselves number lines. Find and start on the first number and then count on with careful jumps on the number line the second number.
For those using "Two-Digit Numbers" I mentioned using tens and ones to help solve these. This is an approach we have practised lots in class and looks like this:
Lines represent the tens and dots represent the ones. Then count up all the tens and then the ones to get to your answer.
Subtraction - Selection
For the Year 1's, change the Level tab to Level 1, select "Subtraction" in the second tab and "Up to 20:"
For the Year 2's, try "Two-Digit Numbers again:
Subtraction - Methodology
For those using "Up to 20" again use number lines, focusing on moving the jumps in the opposite direction - towards 0.
For those using "Two-Digit Numbers" the use of tens and ones looks like this:
We make the first number as before but we cross out the number of tens and ones of the second number. So above we are taking away 14, so cross out 1 ten and 4 ones.
English
Please continue using myon to look at books and complete the Project uploaded. Tomorrow we will talk about story mapping and I will put another project on myon.
Please take care of each other and I will talk to you tomorrow!
Mr Jude
