Good morning,

We have had another busy week looking at forces, friction and magnetism and have also been learning to programme the Bee Bot and use the Bee Bot app on our class ipads. It has been lots of fun and has helped develop our understanding of position and movement.

 

Listed below are the things we are focusing on this week.

 

Language

Nemo – key words to focus on to support our reading and writing are:

Fly, bring, Mr, two

Phoneme y like fly, try and cry

 

Dory – key words for this week:

our, down, off

Phoneme y like fly, try and cry

 

Games that you can engage in to support learning the words and phonemes are outlined below:

Spot the word in your books

Count the phonemes you see in your reading book or in your favourite stories.

Play eye spy

Go on a scavenger hunt to find things that begin with the phoneme

Write your words backwards

You could always make your own pairs game for all your read and write words and continue to practise your reading book too.

 

Maths

We are learning the early concepts to support multiplication and as such we need a good knowledge of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We have now completed lots of work relating to making arrays and repeated addition. We will continue to develop these and are now introducing the words times and symbol x. Below are lots of the strategies that we are using.

Multiplication

1. Counting forwards and backwards in 2s
2. Counting in 5s
3. Counting in 10s
4. Making Equal Groups
5. Doubles numbers to a total of 10 mentally – partitions numbers equally and not equally – recognises it doesn’t affect the total
6. Make equal Groups – grouping items equally in smaller groups
7. Make equal Groups – Sharing out items equally in smaller groups
8. Introduction of Repeated addition of equal groups – show addition and multiplication formats together X meaning groups of

 

Also look out for all our activities on Education City. Remember you can do activities more than once to reinforce your previous learning.

Here are some photos to reflect on some of the fun we had this week making elephants using the forces push, pull, stretch and twist.

 

elephants

 

Thanks for your continued support.

Mrs Carey