I have had some requests for resources for learning to tell the time.

This is a really good opportunity to learn this important life skill.

As a parent, I know it is something in which our children can surprise us: one of mine could tell the time without any direct teaching – he seemed to absorb the skill from the chat around him; the other one needed hours and hours of support and specific teaching. Having good mathematical skills doesn’t always mean that they will find it easy to read analogue clocks.

These are just a few to start you off:

Telling-the-Time-to-the-Minute

Consolidation-Time

tell-the-time-differentiated-activity-sheets-maths-resource-pack

To give you a guide on what children are expected to be able to do at different ages I have listed the objectives below:

Year 4

• read, write and convert time between analogue and
• digital 12- and 24-hour clocks
• solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days.

Year 3

• tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour  clocks
• estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; use vocabulary such as o’clock, a.m./p.m., morning, afternoon, noon and midnight
• know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year
• compare durations of events [for example to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks]

For those of you who prefer games, videos and interactive materials and have sufficient broadband connections here are a couple of links:

Time on Espresso

Time on Top Marks

Mrs B

Well done for keeping up with your Maths and English learning at home. Of course school usually includes lots of other learning too.

Computing

I know lots of you have really enjoyed programming your own times table games in Scratch so I have attached two links to help you continue to develop your Scratch skills, develop other computing skills and keep yourselves safe on-line.

Stem Computing

Scratch

Science

There is a real buzz of enjoyment in class when we do practical science – you seem to really enjoy finding out about how the world around you works through science investigations.

We would have been learning about Magnets and Forces for the last two weeks of this term. The two links below give lots of ideas for science at home including learning about Magnets and Forces. There are also two ideas for home activities attached

Espresso Magnets and Forces

You have your username and password in your reading diary)

STEM science

Pushes and Pulls Home Learning Task

Magnetic Materials Game Home Learning Task

In KS2 we follow a rolling programme so that the Year 3 and 4 science and computing topics are covered over two years, so don’t worry if any resources you find don’t appear to be for your year group. The same happens in Blue.

After Easter, we are due to start learning about Plants – I will upload more details of that topic soon.

Happy Science and technology learning! I look forward to hearing what the scientist and programmers of the future have been up to..

In school, we are using the mastery approach and are teaching in the order used by White Rose. In the same way as last week, there are two links – one for Year 3 and one for Year 4. As the children are taught in a mixed Year 3 and 4 many of the Year 3 children will be able to tackle the Year 4 maths in this week’s link.

Year 3 White Rose Week 2

Lesson-1-Y3-Spring-Block-5-WO6-Fractions-on-a-number-line-2019

Y3-Spring-Block-5-ANS6-Fractions-on-a-number-line-2019

  Year 4 WhiteRose Week 2

Lesson-1-Y4-Spring-Block-4-WO6-Dividing-2-digits-by-10-2019

Y4-Spring-Block-4-ANS6-Dividing-2-digits-by-10-2019

Don’t forget to practise your times tables daily. As well as Time table Rock Stars you could use Hit the Button. Hit the Button  These games are also useful for improving your speed of mental addition and subtraction. These are important skills to be able to complete without having to think too hard when completing more complex calculations.

You could also teach your family to play “add 19 or half” or “times table shoot out”.

Enjoy!