Learning News K/1

Writing 

In Writing this week, we have now started learning all about information reports, their structure and what they include. Each week, we will be focusing on a different Australian animal. We will be writing about species types, where they originate from, their appearance, habitat and diet. Here are our focuses for the next four weeks!

Week 7: Koala

Week 8: Emu 

Week 9: Tasmanian Devil 

Week 10: Crocodile

Here are some of our awesome information writing about the Kangaroo! 

Maths 

In Kindergarten, we have started learning about addition and how to count on from numbers other than 1. Here are some tips to practise at home!

• Encourage your child to help you when out shopping by counting and collecting objects to put into the basket, e.g. ‘Can you get 2 apples? (add more) How many do we have altogether?’
• When playing with building bricks or small toys, encourage your child to count how many of each colour or size. 
• Play simple board games and encourage your child to count the spots shown on the dice and the number of spaces to move. 
• Sing number-themed ......... counting rhymes and use your fingers or small props to help count the items, e.g. 10 Green Bottles.
• Watch Number Blocks with your child and discuss the concepts. Each episode has been carefully crafted with the help of the NCETM (National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics) and it helps children to see how numbers really work − and master a new key math skill with every adventure. 

In Year 1, we are now focusing on using number bonds and the relationship between addition and subtraction to solve problems involving partitioning. Here are some tips to practise at home! 

• Practising quick recall of double numbers to 10. Use double domino tiles to extend thinking to doubling numbers to 20
• Finding and discussing numbers in everyday life that are not meant to be used with place value, such as phone numbers, pin numbers, bus numbers and postcode
• Using number bonds, or ‘friends of 10’, to assist with simple addition and subtraction problems. For example, 4 + 6 = 10, 6 + 4 = 10, 10 - 4 = 6, 10 - 6 = 4
• How To Teach Number Bonds? | Maths – No Problem!
• Using number bonds to solve addition problems by making groups of 10. For example, the problem of 26 + 8 can be solved by taking 4 from the 8 and adding it to the 26. The new problem of 30 + 4 is much easier to solve
• Solving problems using their knowledge of doubles. For example, the problem 8 + 9 can been seen as double 8 (8 + 8) which is 16. Add one more to make 17
• Building number bond knowledge to understand ‘friends of 20’. These number pairs are 11 and 9, 12 and 8, 13 and 7, 14 and 6, 15 and 5.