1st - Deepdene
2nd - Hambro
3rd - Teignmouth
4th - Brooklyn
Well done to all of you who got involved and helped their house team!
English - Fables: New Version
After our work on reading Fables last time, we are now going to try to create our own version of a fable. Again, the easiest way to achieve this as we have before is by changing the fable's setting.
As a model, we will try to set the fable "The Hare & The Tortoise" in a setting more in keeping with our project "At The Seaside." We could set this race under the sea or across the beach. This first planning sheet should help us decided upon a setting:
In the first, bigger box we need to draw a picture of where our new setting will be. In the smaller second box, we will put in some words that might come in handy when we are writing - animals and features of the setting.
For example: Under The Sea - shark, jellyfish, turtle, octopus, lobster, shipwreck, seaweed, sand, coral.
At The Beach - crab, limpet, gull, sandcastle, rock pool, marram grass, shore.
Once this is completed we can turn our attention to the finer points of our new story:
Here we need to choose 2 animals to replace the hare and the tortoise. As it says in the boxes, the first character needs to be slow and the second, fast. Don't worry about this too scientifically, just so long as comparatively there is one quicker than the other.
The final, bottom box needs to show why the fast character loses the race. This could be because they fall asleep (in a rock pool, on some seaweed) or you could go for a more original idea (they get stuck in a sandcastle/shipwreck/treasure chest).
Have fun planning!
Maths - Reading Times
We dipped our toe in the reading of times yesterday and today we will look at some more. The main learning points when reading the time are as follows:
There are 2 hands that tell us the time.
The 2 hands tell us 2 different things which we put together to know what the time is.
The longer hand is called the minute hand - it tells us which type of time it is (o'clock, half past etc).
The shorter hand is called the hour hand - it gives us the number part of the time.
An aside to hands. Firstly, do not even mention the second hand! Secondly, I try to not use short and long hand on its own too much. Try to call them by minute and hour hand. The minute hand is long and touches the numbers; the hour hand is shorter and does not quite reach the numbers.
When reading the time, first look at the minute hand; if it points at the:
- 12 - It is ___o'clock.
- 6 - It is half past ___.
- 3 - It is quarter past ___.
- 9 - It is quarter to ___.
Once you know what type of time it is, look at the hour hand to fill in the missing number.
If the time is:
- O'clock, quarter past, half past - look at the number the hour hand is pointing at or just past.
- Quarter to - look at the number the hour hand is going towards.
Let's give it a go:
Year 1 - End of Year Expectations: Read to the half hour
Year 2 - End of Year Expectation: Read to the quarter hour
Year 2 - Greater Depth (Super Hard Black Belt Challenge): Read time to 5 minutes
Only try this last one if your child is feeling super confident. In order to read to 5 minutes you need to count round the clock in 5's to where the minute hand is (up to half past) and count back round the clock (after half past).
This gives you how many minutes past or how many minutes to the hour we are. The hour hand needs to be read in the same way - past - what it has gone past; to - what is going towards.
I hope you brain has not melted.We are with you (metaphorically) every step of the way:)
KS1 Team
