Happy Friday everybody - we hope you have had a really good week. Things have begun to get a bit more Christmassy here as we have started going into the hall to practice our Christmas Production - only 2 weeks until showtime! We have kept busy back in the classroom, however, looking at instructions in English and multiplication and counting on in different steps in Maths.
Upcoming Events
A few notes for your diary for things coming up soon - more details will be on the newsletter as we get nearer to the time so keep a look out!
- 29th November - Flu Immunisations
- 2nd December - KS1 Movie Night
- 9th December - Christmas Jumper Day*
Maths Homework
This week, we would like you to look at pages 22 & 23.
For Year 1's this focuses on number bonds to 20. This continues to build on last week's number bonds to 10. We can apply the knowledge that 6 + 4 = 10 to help us know that 16 + 4 = 20. It is good to reinforce how we can spot patterns to help find all the number bonds to 20. Below is an app to explore these bonds by selecting a 10 frame or a 20 frame and then putting the blue and orange aliens in them. You can then use the key pad function at the side to enter your calculations.
https://www.coolmath4kids.com/manipulatives/ten-frame
For Year 2's this focuses on addition of 2 two-digit numbers. When we do this we do partition the number into tens and ones but then represent these by lines for the tens and dots for the ones. This is a progression from actually using the tens and ones apparatus from Year 1. See below for how we set this out to help support the solving of the calculations:
Reading Skills
Every week we encourage you to keep up all your reading at home as this makes such a huge difference. We wanted to spend a little time this week speaking more about reading skills because as the children move through Key Stage 1, particularly in Year 2, it becomes less about "Can you read this?" and more about "Do you understand this?"
Understanding what they have read (or comprehension) is vital for the children as they progress through Year 2 and we support this through our VIPERS reading skills. This stands for:
Vocabulary Infer Predict Explain Retrieve Sequence
You can explore these ideas with your child after reading using some of the following question prompts:
Vocabulary - have a good range of vocabulary in order to understand the text
- What does the word _____ mean in this sentence?
- Find a word that means _____ on this page.
Infer - understanding reached through reasoning about what you have read
- Why was _____ feeling _____?
- Why did _____ happen?
Predict - what you think will happen based on what you have read
- What do you think will happen next?
- How will this character's action affect what will happen next?
Explain - what your thoughts and opinions are about the book
- Who is your favourite character? Why?
- Would you like to live in this setting? Why?
Retrieve - discuss the characters, events and setting of the story
- Who did _____?
- Where did _____?
- Here are 5 events from the story - number these 1-5
- What happened after _____?
If you have any issues or questions, please, please come and see us at the end of the day. Just come down the steps to see us!
Have a superb weekend!
Much love
Mr Jude & Mrs Yuille
