Week commencing 3rd January / 8th January

January 4, 2018

Happy New Year! I am sure you all enjoyed the well needed break!

Thank you to those of you who gave myself and Mrs Thambi Christmas gifts. We are both very excited for our trip to the theatre and have enjoyed using/ eating the other gifts.

Although this is a short week, we are hitting the ground running and getting stuck into our learning straight away! We have thought about our New Year’s resolutions to do with our home and school life.

Our learning objectives for this week (beginning Wednesday 3rd January) and the following week (Monday 8th January) are:

Writing

We are going to be looking at a short warning tale called ‘The Magic Brush’ which is a warning tale. Our focus will be on the rich language within the tale and interesting sentence openers.

Maths

We are almost at the end of our work on addition and subtraction. We have been covering subtracting two two-digit numbers when crossing the tens boundary. Please see the examples below if you would like to go through it with your child at home.

 

We will also be looking at number bonds to 100. This is essentially finding different ways of making 100. Look at this example:

 

  1. Using the inverse. For example: ? + 72 = 100.

Therefore 100-72= ?

 

  1. Counting on to 100 on a numberline or by drawing out concrete resources such as dienes.

Our final focus for addition and subtraction will be on adding three one-digit numbers. We expect that our secure understanding of how to partition numbers in different ways and bridging through ten will support the children well.

Homework

I will be continuing to set homework on Mathletics. I am aware that some people have had issues with adobe flash player. This is something you need to enable on your computers. If this is the case then please let me know. I am happy for the children to complete the task after eating their lunch on Mondays (as an adult has to be there for their health and safety).

I will also be sending home an activity relating to our PSHE scheme: Zippy’s Friends. There will also be some information about it. At the end of each module there will be an activity for you to complete with your child.