We have been doing some athletics in the gym this week. We ran sprint races, relay races and hurdle races.

Homework Grid

Your child will be coming home with a Homework Grid. On the grid are some ideas to try with your child in literacy, maths, topic and French. Try to do at least ONE thing each week – if you can do more that would be great. Colour in the boxes of the things you have done and use your homework jotter to record anything.

Maths

We are learning about coins up to 20p and how to make up the same amount using different combinations (eg 9p can be 5p + 2p + 2p or 2p + 2p + 2p +2p + 1p etc.

15p can be 10p + 5p or 5p + 5p + 5p etc). Can you use real coins and make up the same amount in different ways.

Sounds

‘oy’ (toys, boy. enjoy, annoy etc)

Spelling

don’t, old, I’m.

Try writing a short story using each spelling word. Remember to use capitals and full stops and perhaps a few joining words too. Make sure your writing is neat as well.

Common Words

any, around, back, because.

Handwriting – tT, uU, yY.

Practise small and capitals, completing at least one row of each letter in your jotter. Please ensure the letters start at the correct position, are formed correctly and are the correct size in relation to the lines in the jotter.

We were practising our copying and pasting skills in the ICT suite today, as well as playing some number games to help with our addition and subtraction sums.

Sounds

Revise ‘ou’ (out, cloud, found, pound, mouse, house, couch, pouch etc)

Spelling

children, just, help.

Try writing a simple sentence using each word.

Common Words

also, animal, another, answer.

Handwriting – iI, jJ, lL.

Practise small and capitals, completing at least one row of each letter in your jotter. Please ensure the letters start at the correct position, are formed correctly and are the correct size in relation to the lines in the jotter.

Maths

We have been learning all the possible ways that add to 20. Write out the story of 20 and learn the facts too.

We have also been learning how to tell the time in hours and half hours using analogue and digital clocks. Try these games to practise how to tell the time.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=matchingpairstimev3

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/on_time_game1.htm

We enjoyed learning about halving numbers  by playing games. We know that if we know our doubles, we can work out a half of a number.

Triceratops and Tyrannasaurus helped us to half numbers today in our fraction work. We learned that if we know our doubles, we can half numbers easily.

We are learning about our bodies and what each part is called and what it does. Today we found out about the skeleton. We have over 200 bones in our body, 26 in our feet and 27 in our hands. If we didn’t have a skeleton we wouldn’t be able to stay upright and we would be all wobbly!

We had to put a jumbled skeleton back together and then used chalk to draw skeletons for our art work.

Maths

We have been learning about halves. Try halving different things to share – remember, make sure each half is exactly the same size (we can’t have a ‘big’ half or a ‘wee’ half!) Here are some ideas.

Make a sandwich and half it in two, half a bar of chocolate, half a slice of toast, cut half of a cupcake and share it.

Sounds

‘ou’ (out, cloud, found, pound, mouse, house, couch, pouch etc)

Spelling

went, It’s, from.

Try writing a simple sentence using each word.

Common Words

about, add, air, along.

Handwriting – vV, wW, xX, zZ.

Practise small and capitals, completing at least one row of each letter in your jotter. Please ensure the letters start at the correct position, are formed correctly and are the correct size in relation to the lines in the jotter.

Today we were learning about signs of spring. We made spring blossom trees using paper and tissue.

We have been folding and cutting shapes into halves as part of our maths work.

We. used our hands, paper clips, unifix cubes and centimetre cubes  to measure different objects around the school.

During this week and over the Easter holidays you should help your child to revise all the work covered so far in spelling, sounds, common words and handwriting.

Sounds

Revise all sounds in the sound booklets by reading them out loud every night. Can your child read the words fluently without hesitating?

Spelling

Practise any spelling words written in your child’s jotter that need more practise. Write them in small and capital letters, in waterfall writing or rainbow writing each night. Try writing a simple sentence using each word too.

Common Words

Read all the words out loud on your word wall. Can your child read them without hesitating?

Handwriting

Aa, Cc,  Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Qq and Ss.

Practise small and capitals, completing at least one row of each letter in your jotter. Please ensure the letters start at the correct position, are formed correctly and are the correct size in relation to the lines in the jotter.