Maths,

We continue to consolidate our work from term 1 in addition and subtraction.  The children are working very well and considering how to carry-over / use number exchanges when the value in a column adds to more than 10.  We are looking at representing values pictorially to help visualise the numbers in addition and subtraction sums.

For example:

The chimney sum is written at the bottom of the page and the visual representation of these values are written in pictorial form above. This method can support children in ‘seeing’ the values or numbers that they are working with.

Carrying over or number exchange is when the number is each column adds to more than 10 and 1 unit or a ‘one’ needs to be added to the next column.

 

Literacy:

All the children have received reading books to read at home and have been invited to join a weekly reading meeting on Teams.  We have also just finished reading our class novel, ‘The Nowhere Emporium’.  We will start our new class novel which is the sequel to the Nowhere Emporium, The Elsewhere Emporium on the week beginning Monday 8^th February.

We will be focusing in on our creative writing skills in February with weekly writing tasks aimed at building confidence in writing.  We will build on the class criteria for writing skills which include:

Layout – Date and title.

Grammar – Punctuation, Use of quotation marks as appropriate, capital letters and full stops.

Expanding vocabulary – Using wow words appropriately.

Awareness of writing – To be able to re-read or redraft work, looking for and fixing mistakes.

There have been fantastic examples of creative writing handed in so far, I have been very impressed with the standard of work and incredible imagination of the children!  Keep up the good work.