Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Good morning, I hope you all enjoyed a lovely long relaxing weekend. I can’t quite believe that we are now in May and our final term.

Last week we were still busy looking at money in particular thinking about what coins and notes we use, how we get money, what we use money for – our needs and wants!! This week we will be looking at how to budget  and save. As well as all this, if you could possibly look at coins and notes with your children and play little games. Exchanging coins for example how many 2p coins make 10p coin.

Starfish could look at exchanging to 50p and change from 50p

Octopus could exchange to 20p and change from 20p

We will be looking at giving change in class and if you have a collection of 1p coins at home this would be really useful to help reinforce giving change and checking change. It’s always good to count on to give change using 1p coins, like shopkeepers would have done in the past.

I have 20p and buy a comic at 15p so how much change would I receive? I would then count on from 15 and place 1p in your child’s hand till they have 5 pennies change. Thanks for your assistance with this.

In addition, I have also put 2 games on Education City to support some maths going on in class. They are:

Hang Tenths and Bumper Cars.

Language this week:

common word and phonemes covered are :

Nemo –  very, took, fast, there     diagraph aw

Dory –  law, paw, draw, straw       diagraph aw

Please also try the Education City games

Canopy Clues and Make a Wish

For topic this term we are looking at planting seeds and looking after them and where some food comes from and farming.

Thanks, as always for your continued support and I look forward to speaking to you over the course of the next 2 weeks.

Mrs Carey

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Many thanks for your support with this matter.

Good morning, I hope you have had a lovely weekend. Last week we had some fun doing gym outdoors and had lots of fun in the D zone. Fingers crossed we have some more sunshine this week and lots in this busy last term. Can’t quite believe we are now in term 4. One of the topics you will be hearing about this term is magnetism so please keep a look out for anything magnetic at home or when you are out and about.

Language for this week

Nemo – diagraph ow like the word snow not clown.

Common words – to read, write and spell are blue, best, number and other

Dory – diagraph ea like leaf not spread

Common words – had, see, has

I will also add some new Education City tasks and remove some that we have had on for a while now.

Please continue to share reading books at home and I will shortly issue some new word lists to learn,  to support reading this term.

Maths for this week

We are working on the understanding of money just now in maths, which is forever evolving due to society using more and more cards, if possible if you can find some time to share with your children coin collections reinforcing what they look like and make different monetary values using a variety of coins. if you can please look at Topmarks money games like Toy shop and The coin cruncher. We will also be looking at partitioning numbers to support this work in class for example 58p is 50p and 8p but then the children need to think about what coins make 8p such as 8 x 1p, 4 x 2p, or 5p 2p 1p.

Thanks for your continued support and enjoy playing shops with money or looking for magnetic items.

Mrs Carey