Learning News K/1

Please continue to read your readers & tricky words each night!

When Year 1's complete their tricky word lists, please practise spelling them.  

If you have a child in Kindergarten, please practise pronouncing the 'th' sound at home. We have been focusing on this sound this week, and some children have been finding it quite difficult to know the difference between 'th' and 'f'. 

Maths

Kindergarten are now focusing on subtraction until the end of the term. Here are a few things that you can do at home.

• Play Snakes & Ladders or a game of skittles! 
• Play a pirate treasure hunt game where you start with 10 objects and the Kraken hides some away. Keep the left overs in a box so the pirate can work out how many items have been hidden. Then go on the treasure hunt to find all the missing items! Take turns being the pirate and the Kraken. This game could be a princess and a goblin or any other characters your child likes! 
• Count backwards together taking turns to say the next number. Play a guessing game. Say, ‘I’m thinking of a number. Here’s a clue: it’s the number before 5.’ Or, ‘I’m thinking of a number. Here’s a clue: it’s the number before 21.’
• Draw a noughts and crosses grid and place a number in the middle. See if you can figure which numbers would go above, below, and either side of the number in the middle. The answers are (in clockwise direction from the top) 10 less than, 1 more than, 10 more than, 1 less than. Use a 100s chart to help you.
• When you’re at the shops, ask your child to count the number of items in the basket. Ask questions like, ‘How many will there be if we put back 1 item? After we put 5 items on the counter, how many will be left?’
• Play skittles! Write down the number of pins you start with, and take away the number you knock down. At the end, add your scores.

Year 1 will be learning to recognise, describe and represent familiar three-dimensional objects for the next two weeks. Here are a few things to work on at home. 

• The focus is on the recognition and identification of spheres, rectangular prisms, cubes and cylinders. 
• Name 3D objects and 2D shapes around your home. Examples include, bread (rectangular prism), ball (sphere), toilet roll (cylinder) 

Science

Last week, we were very lucky to have Mrs Rhodes in our classroom, teaching us all about indigenous instruments, how they were made and how they make sound. 

This week, K/1 worked very hard to design their own instrument using items that they can find around the house. Please remember to bring your materials on Monday!