What a great time we have had with our Hallowe’en activities.

We have been learning to order any number between 0 and 100 from the smallest to the largest and from the largest to the smallest. We have also been doing lots lots of Hallowe’en stories, songs, drawing,  writing and art activities.

COMMON WORDS – read these words aloud from your word wall or list.

Group 1 – gave, girl, green, grow, hand.

Group 2 – so, much, of, or      PLUS common words from the word wallets.

SOUNDS

Group 1 –  magic ‘a-e’ sound (cake, made, brake, sale etc). Practise reading the magic ‘a-e’ words from your new sound booklet each night.

Group 2 – Practise reading aloud the 3 letter blends on the second side of your new sound sheet.

SPELLING

Practise writing these words in your jotter 3 times each. Can you write a sentence using each one? Remember capitals and full stops.

Group 1 – they, you, all.

Group 2 – no, go, into, the.

Use Sumdog to practise your spelling skills too.

HANDWRITING

Continue to practise these letters in small and capital letters –

bB, hH, kK, mM, nN, pP, rR.

Remember to start at the correct place and make the capitals touch the top line in your jotter.

READING

Read your book each night being careful to read the words on the page accurately (don’t add extra words, miss out words or read different words from the ones on the page). Remember to look for the speech marks to read with expression.

MATHS

We will be working on numbers that are SMALLER or LARGER than one another. We will also be using the maths vocabulary of SMALLEST and LARGEST.

Select random numbers between 1 and 100 (eg 45, 28, 19, 54, 82). Can you write them in your jotter in the correct sequence from SMALLEST to LARGEST then LARGEST to SMALLEST? Do lots of different examples.

Try to fill in the missing numbers like this example too.

Do lots of different examples like this n your jotter.

We have  had a busy week after the October holiday. 

SPELLING

Practise writing these words in your jotter.

Group 1 – me, be, was.

Group 2 – but, to, put, I.

Use Sumdog to practise your spelling skills too.

COMMON WORDS – read these words aloud from your word wall or list.

Group 1 – fly, food, found, four.

Group 2 – that, then, with, us      PLUS common words from the word wallets.

SOUNDS

Group 1 –  ‘ai’ sound (rain, tail, wait, train etc). Practise reading the ‘ai’ words from your new sound booklet each night.

Group 2 – Practise reading aloud the 3 letter blends on the first side of your new sound sheet.

HANDWRITING

Practise these letters in small and capital letters –

bB, hH, kK, mM, nN, pP, rR.

Remember to start at the correct place and make the capitals touch the top line in your jotter.

READING

Read your book each night being careful to read the words on the page accurately (don’t add extra words, miss out words or read different words from the ones on the page). Remember to look for the speech marks to read with expression.

Can you find your spelling words or your sound words in your book?

MATHS

We will continue to work on making numbers 10 more and 10 less. Use your number square to find a number. Now make it 10 more. What do you notice? Which column changes? Do lots of oral examples.

Do similar examples but make the numbers 10 less. What do you notice? What happens to the tens and unit columns?

Try using 10p coins too. Make your amounts 10 more by adding on a 10p or 10 less by taking a 10p away.

Use Sumdog to practise your number skills too.

We did lots of different activities today to help us with our literacy and number work. We also went to the Learning Zone and planned out our tasks using ‘Think, Puzzle, Explore’.

SPELLING

Practise writing these words in rainbow writing.

Group 1 – he, she, we.

Group 2 – not, got, up, mum.

COMMON WORDS – read these words aloud from your word wall or list.

Group 1 – fast, fell, father, find, five.

Group 2 – she, came, from, this      PLUS common words from the word wallets.

SOUNDS

Group 1 –  ‘ay’ sound (day, play, today etc). Practise reading the ‘ay’ words from your new sound booklet each night.

Group 2 – Practise reading aloud the 3 letter blends on the first side of your new sound sheet.

HANDWRITING

Practise these letters in small and capital letters –

aA, cC,dD, gG, qQ, sS,

Remember to start at the correct place and make the capitals touch the top line in your jotter.

READING

Read your book each night being careful to read the words on the page accurately (don’t add extra words, miss out words or read different words from the ones on the page). Remember to look for the speech marks to read with expression.

Can you find your spelling words or your sound words in your book?

MATHS

We are learning to split large numbers into tens and units. Try some like this –

Today we were working on our maths skills as part of STEM week. We measured things using non-standard units, like cubes or paper clips, made some symmetrical pictures, used the remote control cars to position the car or bug on the correct number and split numbers into tens and units.

Today was our engineering day for STEM week. We read a story about ‘Rosie Greer Engineer’ to find out about what an engineer does.

Then we looked at the traditional tale of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ and tried to build a bridge with different types of materials for the billy goats to get across to the other side of the meadow. After our bridges were built we got to look at all the other groups ideas and talk about them. We also used the puppets to act out the story too. 

Today we looked at technology we use every day at school and in the home. We looked at pictures of the types of technology we use every day, went on a technology hunt around the school and drew pictures of the kinds of things we use in our homes.