Welcome to Hungerford Bridge Class.
Class teacher: Miss Agyemang
Teaching assistant: Ms Jones
We are continuing to look at The Nativity Story this week. We will be looking at the features of a journey toolkit and will be doing our own piece of independent story writing. There is an emphasis on using new vocabulary from the text (such as taxes, scroll, worship) as well as using conjunctions and time adverbials effectively.
1263 – Nativity – The Macneil Studio
Reading
We are continuing to read The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl.
Maths
We have moved onto early multiplication skills e.g recognising and making equal groups. Our focus this week is on making links between this and repeated addition before leading into using the multiplication symbol. For example: 5+5+5 is the same as three equal groups with five in each group which is the same as 3 X 5. The X symbol means ‘groups of’ or ‘lots of’. The children should make links between the fact that addition is commutative (can be done in any order) and therefore so is multiplication e.g 3×5 and 5×3 will give you the same total.
History
We will be introducing a new famous person from history… Florence Nightingale.
Don’t forget our Christmas production is Thursday 13th December at 2:15 in the main hall. Christmas jumper is on Friday 15th December. 🙂
Many apologies for the missing blog from last week- we encountered technical issues :/
Writing
We are starting a new text this week looking at the Nativity story.
1263 – Nativity – The Macneil Studio
The children will be thinking about any new vocabulary in the text and using dictionaries to find definitions before thinking more carefully about the story e.g. how the characters felt and their motivations & actions.
Reading
We are continuing to read The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl.
Maths
This week we will be finishing our money topic.
We will be focusing on finding change and 2-step problems. There are strong links to the calculating strategies that your children have already learnt.
The key concepts are that finding change is a subtraction calculation and therefore they will need to use number lines or place value charts as a strategy.
An example of a 2-step problem using money is as follows: Molly bought an apple costing 25p and an orange costing 54p. She paid with £1 coin. How much change did she get?
So… the children will add 25p+54p to find the total and then subtract the total from the money paid- £1- 79p=__
History
We will be introducing a new famous person from history… Florence Nightingale.
