This
week in English we have been using our learning about space to write sentences.
First we looked at some pictures and thought what we could write about them. We
shared our ideas with our learning partners and as a class so we could ‘magpie’
ideas from each other. We then co-constructed success criteria for ourselves.
We particularly tried hard to hold our pencils correctly and form our letters
properly. Please ask your child what we have to remember when we are writing
sentences. The next day we pretended we were teachers and we marked our work!
We worked with a partner and checked to see if we had included everything from
the success criteria in our work. We used a green pencil make any changes
needed. We then choose another picture and tried to make it even better than
our previous work!
We
have also enjoyed an English space chil. We wrote our favourite space facts on
alien pictures for our display, we coloured in space pictures and we tackled
some reading comprehension. During this
time we also discussed our writing with our teachers, looking at what we had
done really well and what our next steps in writing are. Please ask your child
if they can remember!
The
children need to know their number bonds to 10 to be able make the connection
that these can be used to find number bonds to 20. Follow the link to Hit the Button making 10,
once they are secure with this move on to making 20. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
During the week we used different
manipulatives including Numicon and tens frames to help the children see that
when we can use a number bond to 10 to make a number bond to 20. The ones will stay the same but you have to
add a 10 to one of the numbers eg 8+2
could become 18+2 or 12+8.
  
On Wednesday we did a maths investigation. We had to find pairs of numbers that total
20. Some of us choose to record as we
thought of the number bonds eg
10+10
15+5
18+2
16+4………..
whilst others tried to record in a logical system
just like a real mathematician eg
0+20
1+ 19
2+18
3+17
4+16…..
We found out there were 21 ways and decided it
was easier to check if you use a logical system. We also noticed a pattern occurring. Ask your child if they can see it.
On Friday we began to learn about bridging through
10 to help us when adding.
Follow the link to play the game to help your
child understand this concept.
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