Last term we learnt how to use part part whole to help with our maths. Please watch the video below to remind yourself – it will really help your grown up understand too! At the very end of the video the teacher asks you to do two tasks – don’t worry about doing those.

This week you have been working on teen numbers. In your red book please draw a part part whole diagram for all of those numbers. We would like you to partition (split) the number into a ten and ones. So the first part will always have 10 in it. You can use the whole page – do draw them on the blank part of the page and over the top of the lined part. I have started doing mine – here is a photo just in case you are not sure what to do.

You need to try and fit all of them on one page please and remember to write your numbers the right way! In teen numbers the 1 always comes first! Please use a pencil to write with not pen. We would like you to work as neatly as you would in school please.

I have started doing mine – here is a photo just in case you are not sure what to do.

Grown ups – some children may need you to draw the part part whole circles for them.

Phonics

Today is lesson 4  on You Tube. We are learning that ‘oe’ and ‘ou’ can make the oa sound as in toe and shoulder. Please watch and join in. 

Now play a dice game rolling the dice and reading an oe word each time.

If anyone is after an idea for a stocking filler we would be so grateful if Father Christmas could bring a pencil case this year!
As the classroom is a bit different at the moment each child has their own set of stationery in a pencil case. Unfortunately the pencil case zips all broke very quickly and we spend far too much time picking things up off the floor! So if your child would like to bring in their own pencil case next term we’d be very grateful. Please don’t send anything very precious though and no need for contents; we will just transfer their school stationery.

Well luckily we had 28 of them in Skipper 1 on Friday for Children in Need!

We had half the NHS, vets, grandads and our collective hero: Mrs Grubb who cleans our room each day. We were all proud to feature on Emily’s star and I really can say your children have been little heroes the way they have adapted to life in Year 1.