This week we shall be exploring addition and subtraction within numbers to 10 or 20. Pupils will be delving into different methods of this application and demonstrate their skills and knowledge by using objects along with recording their answers via writing. Can you help at home? Count and talk about numbers together, and discuss perhaps if you have 5 apples and then you were to eat 2 of them, how many would you then have left altogether? Can they prove it? How did they find out answer, did they simply know it or did they count out loud?

We will also be practicing our careful counting skills, this week. Pupils will be given a number and asked to tell a friend the number and to find the same amount of objects. Again, try this at home and see how your child find the activity. Phase One are becoming excellent mathematicians as they are starting to use mathematical language when answering questions, see if your child uses ‘greater then less than, equals to, whole, part, first, next, then, finally, on, under, next too, besides.’

Look at this picture and see if your child can explain what they can see in the image using wonderful mathematical vocabulary and full sentences. Don’t forget to keep counting as much as possible when outside of school and also see if you can spot numbers in and around your home, see which numbers your child can say, if they know all of the numbers, ask them to tell you what the numbers would be if they were one more or less than.