Look at some of the activities we took part in last week to celebrate ‘Book Week Scotland’
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Month: November 2024
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Numeracy Homework 27th November
We continue to work on rapid recall to help with our subtraction work.
Here is a suggested activity that pupils may wish to play-
‘Race to Zero’
You will need: Paper, Pens and a dice.
Each player writes the starter number at the top of the paper (Pyramids- 20, Cubes & Cones- 100). Take turns rolling the dice and subtracting this from your number. The first player to get to zero wins!
Cubes and Cones may wish to roll two dice together to make a 2digit number to subtract.
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Numeracy Homework 20/11/24
We will begin our unit of work focusing on subtraction this term. Here is a game to help revise mental addition.
Pyramids- within 20.
Cubes- within 100.
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Week Ending 15th November
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Week ending 8th of November
Primary 3/4 have been bringing our Space topic to an end and moving onto our new topic of ‘Festivals and Celebrations’. We completed some space themed activities such as designing and creating a spacesuit.
We have been learning about Remembrance Day and have written fact files about the traditions and customs. Ask me to retell some facts at home. We have also created ‘pointillism poppies’ and I look forward to sharing the final results.
During the week we had the chance to practise our spelling words using cotton buds and water. We had lots of fun watching the words disappear!
In numeracy we kept working hard to solve addition problems. We used dominos in the tuff tray to create and solve addition calculations. The cones got carried away making huge numbers with lots of decimal places!
To finish on Friday we began learning some traditional Scottish dances in preparation for our annual Christmas Party. I hope everyone had a great weekend and I look forward to another fun-filled week ahead!
Mrs Meek
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Numeracy Homework 13th November
This week we hope to finish our work on addition before moving onto subtraction.
We have learned the following strategies to help us-
- Partitioning numbers e.g 23 + 47 becomes (20 + 40) add (3 +7)
- Counting on using 100 squares and number lines, including blank number lines. Addition using a blank number line – YouTube
- Strategies for adding 9 or 11 e.g. add 10 then take away 1 or add ten and add 1 more.
- The standard written calculation.
Please ask your child how we can use each of these strategies by giving them some example calculations.
Pyramids: addition within 100 (two, two digit numbers e.g. 17 + 42)
Cubes: addition within 1000 (two, three digit numbers e.g. 125 + 236)
Cones: Addition within 10,000 (two or more, four digit numbers) as well as adding decimals with one decimal place (e.g. 2.3 + 0.8)
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Weekly Homework
Apologies in the delay in posting homework.
Pyramids- We have been learning to use the standard written algorithm to add two, two digit numbers. This has been without carrying, although we have talked about this and demonstrated it using concrete materials so feel free to practice.
Column Addition Level 1 – Free PDF Worksheet
Cubes- We have been adding two, two digit numbers together using the written method as well as adding a three digit number to a two digit one and vice versa. We have been carrying but lots of practise would help.
Column Addition Level 2 – Free PDF Worksheet
Cones- We have been learning about decimals. We have been identifying tenths and learning to write this as a decimal and a as a fraction.
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Halloween
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The children have had lots of fun celebrating Halloween this week, please take a look at our SWAY to see some of the fun!
We have also been learning how to add numbers using a written calculation. This is something children could benefit from showing you at home to practise.
We have changed our classroom around to make more space. Children were involved in making decisions about how they would like the classroom to look and where they would like to sit. We look forward to showing you all soon.
Have a lovely weekend!
