Happy Friday everybody - it has been another very busy week in Key Stage 1!
Reading Books
It has been lovely to send the children home with their reading books this week. Please remember to bring these in every day, even if the children have not finished the book as we may be asking them to read or change a book. Don't forget to spend time talking about the story afterwards - what was your favourite part, why do you think this happened, how would you describe a character etc. Understanding of a story/text is just as important as the actual reading of the text.
Maths Homework
This week we would like you to look at pages 8-9.
For Year 1's this is looking at how numbers are made up of tens and ones. In school we use equipment to help show this - tens can be represented by a long ten rod and ones as individual cubes. As the children move towards Year 2, we also represent these with annotated lines and dots:
When you are counting a large amount of objects, try grouping these into tens and ones to make it easier. Try doing this if you wish to extend the task.
For Year 2's this is looking at number to 100 in words and numbers. If you want to extend this task, try some word calculations e.g. fifteen add twelve equals twenty seven. Also, practice representing these numbers using the tens and ones annotations as explained above.
