Friday 5th April

Today we had an Easter morning and we thought about the first Easter and how we celebrate Easter with our families. This week in Maths we have been consolidation our learning this term. We started by calculating the difference, or the gap, between two numbers 3 and 6. We thought about what was the same and what was different. Here is an example: When we look at the pictorial representation we can see that they both ‘have’ three, but six has another 3. We can calculate this difference by either counting on from the smaller number or counting back from the greater number. We noticed that could record this calculation as an addition or subtraction number sentence. In this example: 3 + 3 = 6 6 – 3 = 3 We practised this in different ways and here are some examples: Please practise finding the difference with your children during the holiday. The next day we practised missing number problems. We realised that it really helps if you know lots of number facts! Please practise number facts with your children during the holiday. In Year One children are expected to know all number facts to 20! If we did not know the answer we used a variety of strategies to find the answer. These included: ·        Using number facts we do know – for example if we know 5 + 5 = 10 we know 5 + 7 = 12 as 7 is 2 more than 5 ·        Counting on or back using our fingers ·        Using Numicon ·        Using number lines or number square ·        Knowing that addition can be done in any order ·        Know that = means equal to, so therefore each side of the equals symbol must total to the same number Here are some examples of missing number sentences we calculated: Please practise missing number calculations with your children. They are a really good way of helping children practise their number facts too! We have also played Lions and Tigers! This is a good game to help children realise the importance of each numeral in a two-digit number.  It is also lots of fun! Photos lions and tigers On Monday and Tuesday this week in English we wrote our own Magic Key stories our boxing up sheet plan. We talked about what a good diary entry looked like and co-constructed this toolkit. The scene had already been set so our first sentence began with the time word First……. On Wednesday we edited our work with our teachers.  We used the toolkit to see what we had done well and what we needed to improve. During this lesson we were able to choose from a range of ‘Magic Key’ activities.   These included writing our own  'Magic Key'  story in a little book,   reading a collection of Magic Key stories, sequencing a story and editing sentences to make them make sense. Over the Easter holiday you may like to encourage your child to keep a diary and then bring it into school to share with everyone.  See how many time words they can use to start their sentences – On Friday/Sunday/Monday….First… Next…Then….After …. Finally. Alternatively they may like to write their own Magic Key story. Help them get their sentences in their head before starting to write, re-read each sentence to check it makes sense and check for captial letters and full stops. Remember Year One is the 'Year of the sentence'. Finally make sure it their letters sit on the line so it is easy to read. Phonics This week in phonics we have been consolidating the split digraphs ‘a-e’ ‘e-e’ ‘i-e’ and ‘o-e’ ‘u-e’. Can your child show you how they use their phoneme fingers to segment these words –make, made, snake, flame, these, evening, swede, concrete, alone, broke,those, home, June, computer, flute, cube and then blend them back together again? Can they spot the digraph or spilt digraph in the words above. Is there only one digraph in these words or do some have more than one? Can they read these alien words –flape, strame, quepe, crebe, drimes, blibes, jobe, hone, wule, putes Spelling ideas. Perhaps you could get your child to think of a sentence using the words above with this week’s digraphs and the word and ‘house’ to practise the common exception words. Don’t forget all the Year 1 common exception words are in your child’s Progress Book. Over the Easter holidays you may like to follow the link for some good games and activities to support your child's learning at home or when out and about. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/advice-for-parents/fun-ideas-learning-at-home/fun-ideas-ages-5-6/  In computing this term we have been learning about word processing. As you know, we have been practising typing using two hands, please continue to practise this at home. We have also learnt to: Typing text using Word and learning to use: •        Two hands •        Capitals, using shift •        Capitals, using shift lock •        Space bar, including after full stops •        Backspace •        Delete •        Arrow keys •        Return/enter •        Undo/redo •        Bold, italics or underline Highlighting text to edit using: •        Double clicking on single words •        Clicking and dragging the cursor •        Holding down shift with the arrow keys Editing: •        Font style •        Font size using numbers •        Font size using bigger/smaller icons •        Font colour Here are some examples of some of our typing and editing:  Have a great holiday and we look forward to hearing (or reading!) about your children's adventures when we get back. Please remember to help your child produce a simple collage about England. It does not need to be complicated - three photographs on a sheet of A4 would be fine. In addition, please continue to practise counting up and down in ones from any numbers, practising number facts, reading and writing. This will really help your child's progress.  We hope you all have a happy and safe holiday and look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 24th April for the start of Summer Term!  Year One Team