During Maths lessons this week in Phase One we have been working on some fun skills which you can help with at home.

Reception children were looking at the ‘Five speckled frogs picture’ then telling a grown up what they can see. This encourages the pupils to speak in full sentences and use mathematical language ‘I can see 5 purple butterflies in the picture.’

Then we recapped our sorting work from last week, where pupils were asked to sort objects into groups based on various properties, some chose to sort due to its’ size or by colour. You can try sorting at home, maybe they can help to lay the table to put away the cutlery, or even help by sorting out the washing.

Lastly, we have been matching quantities, so each child at snack as one snack each, when they are laying the table for a party how many cups will they need if there are 4 children? How many plates will be needed if 6 people come for dinner?

Year Ones, have focused on securing their understanding of numbers up to 10, they have worked on doubling and halving any given number. Some children really enjoyed this and moved onto numbers to 20 and 30!

Can you try halving and doubling at home this week? Maybe you could halve and double toys, legos or even a snack!

Great work, Phase One! Keep up the lovely learning and don’t forget to take a photo and upload to Tapestry, we really enjoying seeing you apply your skills outside of the classroom.