Some of us continued to develop our knowledge of subtraction with using Numicon to clearly see the process of borrowing a 10. Numicon really helps us to visualise what can be a tricky concept to grasp. Building, talking and writing about what and why really helps our remembering, understanding and applying skills! We also used our knowledge of fact families and the relationship between addition and subtraction to do simple algebra, using what information we have in an equation to find the unknown number and then use this to solve the next problem.
Other children continued to practise their knowledge of place value and partitioning numbers into tens and ones, using Numicon. We are also becoming more skilled at adding and subtracting a ten from a given number and this is something that can be regularly practised at home to build up speed, confidence and accuracy.

This week we combined our knowledge of rainforest creatures, their ability to escape predators and catch prey and our learning about the rainforest layers to create a new rainforest creature! We had to research using our non fiction texts and the active wild website to combine aspects of different animals, birds and insects and understand and use words such as ‘appearance’ ‘habitat’ and ‘diet. Scientists believe that many creatures are still to be discovered in the rainforests so maybe our creatures really do exist!