Massive thanks and respect to you all for all that you are doing, however small, in home educating your child - it is a much harder job than we have whilst they are in school! Let's get to it:
English - Non-chronological Report Writing
So we have some notes from last time. If you found this a bit tricky feel free to use my notes from yesterday's blog. It is always good to add to existing notes. Have a look at this video clip which has information on Beadlet Anemones, Bladderwrack, Shore Crabs and Common Starfish:
One of the key philosophies of primary education, in my opinion, is "planting the seed." This is where you take a tiny corner of the subject you are covering, for example an anemone:
And then you find out lots of facts about them. You go to town on them. You plant the seed of interest, fascination about the world around them that one day could grow into the next marine biologist, historian or engineer. Once you know about Beadlet Anemones you can spot 20 of them inside 5 minutes at any beach. If you don't know, then they just pass you by...try this clip to finish our notes (or to just plant the seed!):
- seaweed - plant, underwater
- fronds = leaves
- pods called air bladders - float
We take 1 or 2 notes and turn them into a sentence:
Seaweed is a plant that grows underwater and its leaves are called fronds.
The use of conjunctions to link ideas is important (and, but, so, because, which).
Again, work alongside your child. Year 2's look to include sub-headings based on the notes you took and a diagram too. Here's my attempt:
I have annotated the report with aspects that we would look to include in our writing.
Incidentally, if you wish for paper with lines or indeed squared paper for maths I find paper snake a good website:
I have annotated the report with aspects that we would look to include in our writing.
Incidentally, if you wish for paper with lines or indeed squared paper for maths I find paper snake a good website:
Maths - Division
Division is the inverse operation to multiplication. Divide means to share equally (or fairly) between a number.
So 15 ÷ 3 means 15 things shared equally between 3 people. Again, use images to visualise this:
So look at the first number - this is the amount we are sharing out.
The second number is the amount of groups - make this amount of boxes and share the amount - either real objects of just draw dots.
Try these:
12 ÷ 2 =
18 ÷ 2 =
8 ÷ 2 =
12 ÷ 3 =
18 ÷ 3 =
15 ÷ 5 =
20 ÷ 5 =
16 ÷ 4 =
Maths - Division as the inverse of Multiplication For the Year 2's confident with the above idea, we can look at solving division calculation by knowing it is the inverse of multiplication. So: If 5 x 10 = 50 then 50 ÷ 10 = 5. So if we have 90 ÷ 10 = ? We can't draw 10 boxes and then share 90 objects/dots it would be too inefficent. Use the inverse:
? x 10 = 90 How many times do I need to count in 10's to get to 90? Try these: 70 ÷ 10 =
45 ÷ 5 =
24 ÷ 2 =
80 ÷ 10 =
35 ÷ 5 =
110 ÷ 10 =
We hope you find this helpful - have a super day! Key Stage 1 Team
