Happy Friday everybody and a very Happy New Year to you all! It has been lovely to have a 2 day week to ease everybody back into the swing of things (teachers very much included) and it has given us an opportunity to wrap up our "999 What's Your Emergency?" project before we begin working on "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory."
Maths Homework
This week, we would like you to look at pages 28 & 29.
For Year 1's this focuses on subtraction. As with all the different operations in maths, as much practice as possible is key in learning the approaches to solving these calculations. Try number lines, try concrete objects - toys, pencils, spaghetti - anything!
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/addition-and-subtraction
For Year 2's this focuses on times tables. All Year 2 children are expected to know their 2, 5 and 10 times tables by the end of this academic year. This also includes the related division facts, so if we know that 4 x 2 = 8 will also know:
2 x 4 = 8
8 ÷ 4 = 2
8 ÷ 2 = 4
The more eagle-eyed of you will realise that this is just the same as addition and subtraction being the inverse of each other and, yes, we can represent it on a triangle!
And again, the game below is good for reinforcing this idea:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families
Don't forget to keep up all your fantastic efforts with your reading at home - it will make a huge impact on your child's reading development. Keep using the range of questions we have discussed previously as well!
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 great weekend!
Much love
Mr Jude & Mrs Yuille
