Happy Friday everybody and a very Happy New Year to you all! It has been lovely to have welcomed all the children back and we have begun work on our new project for the Spring Term - "The Quest" where we will be exploring the areas of knights and castles!
Reading Comprehension Homework Book
Your child will be coming home with a comprehension homework book this week! Just like with the maths homework book, we ask that you complete one page (double page where the task is spread across 2 pages) and bring the book back to school by Wednesday.
In the blog from 24th November (scroll down to remind yourself of this blog) we spoke in depth about all the key skills involved in comprehension and how reading is more than just mechanically reading the words on the page. The activities in these homework books will help develop these skills. Again, please come and see us if you require further advice on this area.
Castle Construction
As part of our project on "The Quest" we will be creating our own model castle. We have boxes that make up the main "body" of the castle but if you could send in any small boxes (mini-cereal box size at the most please), cardboard tubes or any interestingly shaped packaging we would warmly welcome these. Please send these in with your child from next week onwards.
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
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 & Miss Smith
