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This week in maths Group 4 have been working on column addition and subtraction. Although we have found it difficult at times the class have shown amazing perseverance skills and never gave up! Well done Group 4.

This week we have focused on using addition to write equations. We started by looking at whole and part models and focusing on partition skills. We had to explain our workings to an adults – ‘this part is 7 and this part is 2 the whole equals 9’. We can write the equation to looks like this 7+2=9

Children created their own equation stories, using their addition skills as well as writing number bonds to 5 and 10.

We have not only focused on applying and discussing our maths learning but forming all of our numbers to 10 correctly.

Look how proud we look!

These skills will come in handy as we progress onto subtraction work next week. Well done Group 1!

Today in Group 4 we started our new topic of addition and subtraction. Today we focused on known number facts. We did a lot of work together on our whiteboards showing the knowledge we already had. Great start to the topic Group 4! Keep it up!

This week we have been learning about double, halves, even, odd numbers as well as identifying more and less than. What a lot of learning!

We started by recognising doubles and using paint to add ‘double’ spots onto ladybirds. ‘I know double 3 equals 6. There are 6 spots on the Ladybird’ IJ

‘Like half as it means you can share with a friend.’ ARL

We then started looking at even and odd numbers. Noticing any patterns, how we can represent them and what are the similarities and differences. Try and look at these together at home as next week we shall be moving on to counting in 2’s.

How can we show this using shoes? If I eat all of Jamal’s apples, does he still have more than Tina?

Ask your child what they have noticed? Can they use words such as – more, greater, less, equals, because, odd, even? Remember, you can always send photos or messages of extra home learning into your Key Worker, would always enjoy seeing work outside of school.

Today in Group 4 we put our place value knowledge to the test and started to work on rounding. At times we found it tricky but everyone worked hard and persevered. I cannot wait to continue working on this with you Group 4. Keep up the good work!

In today’s maths lesson children thought about ‘known facts’ and how these facts are really useful when making mental calculations. They were then given a number and asked to write down all the things they know about it. They were encouraged to use mathematical language and to use different representations to show each fact. Group 3 showed they know lots of things about lots of different numbers. Well done Group 3!

This week we have been settling back into our new learning groups. Group 1 (Year 1) pupils shall focus on numbers within 10 and how we can recall our number facts to add, subtract, subitise, and partition numbers into whole and parts.

Here are some examples of the questions we looked at this week. Perhaps you can look at these together at home, can you both find 5 socks? Can you set up a mini cinema when you watch a film and make tickets, how many people will be watching, how many tickets will you need to make? Teddies may join you for the film, don’t forget they will need tickets also. How many people are there altogether? What if one person left, many many would there be then?

Can you child say in a sentence …. There are _______ ships altogether?

Can you find which fruits are apples? How many apples can you see? How many pears can you see?

The children found this every tricky – just by looking at the image, can they answer how many cubes they can see? This is called subitising, we will be continuing with this skill next week.

Remember, if you complete any additional home learning, take a photo and upload it onto Class Dojo, where we can share and celebrate it with all of our friends here in Year One.

This week, Group 3 learn some new words and definitions in relation to shape and angles.

We learnt that a right angles is were a horizontal and vertical line meet, an acute angles is cute and smaller than a right angle and an obtuse is greater than a right angle. The children can confidently demonstrate all angles using their arms and love playing the angle game at the beginning of each lesson. The game will continue over the next 3 weeks, with new vocab being added.

Using our trusted right angle finders and angle makes, the children are able to identify, create and describe angles of all sizes.

Numbers to 100 can be a little bit tricky. 17 and 70 can seem very similar. We have been looking closely at how the two digit numbers are made up. There has been lots of talking about tens and ones (units). If a number is made up of seven tens then we know it is seventy. Whereas, is it has one ten and seven ones then it is seventeen. The more we practised, the easier it has become.

In small teams, we have been investigating how to partition these two digit numbers into their tens and ones.
We began by choosing three number cards and ordering them from smallest to biggest.
After that, we wrote the number as tens and ones before drawing it.

5+5, 6+4, 7+3 8+2, 9+1 are number bonds to 10. In squirrels, we have been trying to remember them quickly. We’ve noticed that if we can know that 6+4=10 then when we need to do 10-6= we can say that the missing number would be 4 quickly. It can also be helpful for us adding ten numbers too. 6+4 is similar to 60+40. Little short cuts that speed up our maths.

We used the cuisenaire to help us count in 10s, make our number bonds to 10 and then for a little bit of fun create a picture of a horse with them. 🙂