This week in Numeracy we have been working on addition with missing numbers – for example
12 + __ = 34. This is something that has always come out as being a challenge for pupils, but when we looked at these together the children found them much easier to work out. Hopefully when we are faced with these again we will be able to answer them confidently.
In Number Talks we have been looking at a two digit addition sum and the pupils have been asked to share how they would work it out and if they could find more than one way to answer it. One of the sums given was 24 + 45 = and here were some of the ways of working it out:
For literacy this week we have continued working hard on our new spelling words and we have taken these home again to practise. We have completed some other comprehension questions on our group readers this week, this time looking at reading sentences from the story and deciding if they were true or false. In writing this week we looked back at our All About Me stories and we assessed ourselves using our core target grids and our genre target grids for descriptive writing. We talked through what each target meant then assessed ourselves after we had read over our work. We then used our genre placemats to help us record what went well in our piece of writing and what we could do to make it better.
For our Novel Study this week we created some questions to ask the characters in the book. Then we took turns at taking on the role of one of the characters to answer the questions we had made. We had to use our imagination as well as our knowledge of the text to help us answer.
We used our miming skills in drama to act out a scene from the story and our classmates had to guess which part we were acting out.
I hope all the children and their families have a wonderful October break!!!!
