Happy Friday, everybody! It has been another busy week in KS1. We have been working on our multiplication and problem solving skills in Maths and looking at how streets and towns have changed over the last 10 000 years in English. We have also been enjoying looking at Victorian toys which we have on loan from Chelmsford Museum, and thinking about how they are similar and different to the toys we have today.
Maths Homework
This week we would like you to look at pages 24-25.
For Year 1's this is looking at add, subtract and equals. It is important to discuss the different words we use that are represented by these symbols. For example:
- + add, plus, total, more
- - take away, subtract, minus, less
- = equals, the same as
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/addition/addition-to-10
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/subtraction/subtraction-to-10
If we have an instance where there are not enough ones to take away, we cross out a ten to turn into 10 ones:
Practice this approach when working on the calculations on page 25. You can also try the subtraction version of the game from last week to continue to develop your child's mental maths skills.
https://www.arcademics.com/games/mission
Don't forget to keep up all your fantastic efforts with your reading at home. We cannot emphasize how important to your child's general progress in all aspects of their learning regular reading is. It remains one of the simplest and most impactful things you can do to support your child's education 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.
Unite The Uniforms
On Friday 3rd December we will be taking part in the Unite The Uniforms campaign in honour of the millions of people who have served in the NHS and emergency services. Children are invited to come to school wearing the colours of the emergency services; red, blue, green or orange. In class we will be thinking about how these people help us and why it is important to honour them. We will make links to Children’s Rights and use our pupil voice to write letters of thanks, which we will send to our local services. Suggested donation is £1, but please give as little or as much as you wish so that we can all join in the dressing up fun! Donations will go towards building the UK’s first ‘Emergency Services Cenotaph’.
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.
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 - December 2021 in our Home Learning folder, which you can access here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/149knm9VCVEVTwzWMwMeYzOGkF3RP-sOg
