Happy Friday, everybody - we truly hope you are all keeping healthy! Pyjama Day has been met with great excitement today with everyone looking amazing in their bedtime clothes and we have raised some money for a very important cause. We have all enjoyed our special Children in Need workout with Joe Wicks and learnt about the work that Children in Need do, relating this to our rights.
Home Learning
If for any reason your child is unable to attend school and you are looking for work to complete, then please visit the Children's Hub page on our school website. Follow the link below and then scroll down to see links to some websites that will help you support your child's learning. There are links here to our Big Cat e-library, White Rose maths and Oak Academy.
For White Rose, click on the Home Learning tab and then select the appropriate Year group and week from the list that will appear. There are videos that you can work through together.
Again, for Oak Academy click Lessons; Subjects; Key Stage 1 and then there will a huge range of lessons for you to choose from.
We hope you can find things here that will engage and support your child whilst they are away from school or, even, if they wish to do extra work at home!
https://sites.google.com/downhallprimary.com/learninghub/
There are also suggestions for work you can do from Oak Academy and White Rose in a document named Home Learning - November 2021 in our Home Learning folder, which you can access here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/149knm9VCVEVTwzWMwMeYzOGkF3RP-sOg
Maths Homework
This week we would like you to look at pages 22-23.
For Year 1's this is looking at number bonds to 20. Look for the ways this relates to last week's work on number bonds to 10. The web site below is a way to visualise this. Drag out 20 red counters and then explore flipping some to yellow. Look at the combination of numbers you can get. Can you spot the patterns?
https://www.didax.com/apps/two-color-counters/
For Year 2's this is looking at addition. We have talked before about how we can split numbers into tens and ones and represent these with annotations. This can help us when working out addition calculations:
Practice this approach when working on the calculations on page 23. Being able to add smaller numbers mentally is also an important skill to practice. Try the game below to help improve your child's mental addition skills.
https://www.arcademics.com/games/alien
Don't forget to keep up all your fantastic efforts with your reading at home. We are still updating the Big Cat online library for all our children as they move up reading levels, so don't forget to use this resource if it is useful to you.
