This
week in maths we have been making, comparing and adding equal groups. We
starting by putting cubes into equal groups and discussing that equal means
that every group has the same number of cubes. We used the talking frame of ‘x
groups of x cubes’ to describe our equal groups. We then used our learning to
solve problems such as those below.
Then we practised adding equal groups. We investigated this in different ways, such as counting the objects, counting in 2s, 5s or 10s or jumping in groups on a number line. We call adding equal groups ‘repeated addition’, and this will lead into multiplication. For example, four groups of five can be written as 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 25. Here are some examples of questions we tried:
We then used our learning about adding equal groups to solve problems. We explained how we calculated the answer. Here are some examples:
Please think up some questions about
adding equal groups of 2, 5, or 10 objects, and also continue to practise
counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
This week we have continued our learning about ‘Traditional Tales’.
On Monday we planned our own retelling of the Three Little Pigs. We co-constructed a toolkit thinking about the features a traditional story has.
We used a boxing up sheet. We could use any of the ideas from the different versions we had heard last week in our own stories. We drew pictures to show the key moments in the story and added any words that would make our story interesting for the reader.
On Wednesday we wrote our versions of the Three Little Pigs. We had to try to include as many features from the toolkit as possible.
On Friday we edited our writing with the adults using the toolkit. Our teachers told us what they liked about our version of the Three Little Pigs and told us how we could improve.
At home your child may like to write
- another retelling of the Three Little Pigs
- a story about the further adventures of the Three Little Pigs
- a letter to their mum
- a newspaper report with the headlines ‘The end of the Big Bad Wolf!’
Phonics
This half term in phonics we will be learning about suffixes (endings in words). In Year One when we are adding suffixes to words, the root word always remains the same, it doesn’t change.
This week we have been focusing on ing endings.
We added ing to
see - seeing, draw– drawing, read – reading, learn- learning, think – thinking, walk – walking, eat – eating, garden – gardening, fly – flying, jump – jumping, stack – stacking, spell – spelling, tiptoe – tiptoeing, cartwheel - cartwheeling, watch – watching, brush – brushing, kiss – kissing, stitch – stitching, fizz - fizzing
Can your child show you how they use their phoneme fingers to segment the words above and then blend them back together again?
Remember to say the suffix ing at the end not i and then digraph ng.
Can they spot the digraphs in the words above? Is there only one digraph in these words or do some have more than one?
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 ‘one’ and ‘once’ and to practise the common exception words.
Don’t forget all the Year 1 common exception words are in your child’s Progress Book.
We have enjoyed using ScratchJr this week! If you have a tablet at home please download this (free) app and let your children practise their coding skills. It is lots of fun and will help their learning st school too!
In history this week we were learning about the Great Fire of London. We put the events of the great fire in chronological order.
We hope you enjoy the long
weekend!
The Year One team
