P1M Weekly News

This week we started our new topic in numeracy: subtraction. To introduce this topic we played lots of fun games and participated in fun activities. You could try out some of these at home too. We made a tower of 10 cubes (you could use lego), our partner done the same. We then had to roll a dice and subtract the number of cubes as shown on the dice. The winner was the person who gets to 0 cubes the quickest. Remember if you have 3 cubes left and roll a 6 you can’t take away your cubes!

We also participated in subtraction bowling. Set up 10 plastic cups (ten pin bowling style) and roll a ball at the cups – you only get one shot! Then make a subtraction sum showing the amount of ‘pins’ you knocked over. E.g. if you knocked over 6 cups your sum would be 10-6=4.

This week we have also been using SEAL strategies to develop our understanding of number further. Miss Meechan showed us some counters and then covered them with a piece of paper. Miss Meechan took away some counters and told us how many she had taken away. We then had to figure out how many counters were left. We really enjoyed this task too.

We are continuing with our number talks session and this week we were focusing on dot patterns. We were shown a dot pattern which had 4 dots at the top and 4 at the bottom, we very quickly recognised that this made 8. Kyle was able to show us a different way to make 8: 5+3=8.

This week we were given a box to collect some loose change in. We were very interested in the picture of the little girl on the box. Miss Meechan was telling us about how the little girl is not as fortunate as we are. Here is a link if you would like to discuss this further with your child at home: https://www.unicef.org.uk/?gclid=CNP_i6nX0dECFUkQ0wodkkUKaA&sissr=1

Here are some of the videos/games we used in class this week for you to use at home too.

http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/slides_US.swf

http://www.abcya.com/subtraction_game.htm

http://www.rabbittakeaway.co.uk/activity/

http://www.galacticphonics.com/cvc/interactive/memory/memoryt.htm

iPad app: puppet pals

songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDViX6Y9Q_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRdD7ESj_GE

Some talk tasks for this week too:

This week was world religion day. We had a chat in class about the different religions in the world. You could do this too. We used this image to show us the different religions:

Say a quiet prayer to God and remember that he is always listening.