Phonics

Listen to one of our favourite phonics songs to get started

Teach your child the tricky word were. Practice it by writing it down for them, letting them write it and then challenge them by covering it and asking them to write it again. Continue to practice this new tricky word over the week.  

Now we’re going to play a game of Full Circle. In this game you’re going to write one word and then change it to a new word by only changing one sound! Rewrite the new word next to the last one so that you can easily see which sound is changed each time. You’ll end up writing the same first and final word which is why this game is called full circle. Adults don’t show the children the words, instead say them outloud and then chop up the words so that your child can hear each sound clearly. Some of the words are real and some are nonsense. 

crab, grab, gran, bran, brat, grat, crat, crab

Here is an example of how the children can write their words or a list format is fine too.

Maths

Remember our work on place value? We are continuing with some more fun number games this week using what we know about place value to partition numbers (sort them into tens and ones). 

Take a look at the circles and lines below. You may recognise these from our part part whole work from a while ago. The whole number features in the large circle at the top and we use the two smaller circles to look at ways of making that number. In this case we’re going to be splitting the big number into groups of tens and ones. For example, 14 has one group of 10 and 4 ones so in the two circles below 14 is represented by a 10 and a 4. Work with your child to partition the other teen numbers. If they are feeling confident why not give the bottom line a go. Talk about twenties and that a number in the twenties has two groups of 10. 21 would be represented by a 20 and a 1, but make sure your child understands that 20 is two groups of 10. If they’re doing well with these numbers draw some of your own circles and practise with higher numbers up to 99!