Hello everyone – I hope you’ve all had a great half term and have had fun. Here is the work for this week and, as ever, only do what you feel you can.
Phonics. There are the usual 5 activities which you can split over the week.
- Sounds this week are: nk nt nch. Try writing the sounds with your finger on someone’s back. Can they guess which you’ve written?
- Log onto Purple Mash, English, Phonics, Phase 4, Cloze and look for the ‘yellow’ box for nk and nt.
- Can you unscramble these words containing this weeks sounds? tnwe nedt cmnuh hnakt ubnrt
- Write out these key words remembering to join as much as you can: went dent burnt chunk sink thank crunch munch print.
- Can you draw and make up a name for an imaginary creature using this week’s sounds? For example, it could be called a chunkcruncher or a crunchermuncher.
Numeracy – the focus this week is halving numbers (which is the same as dividing by 2).
- Find 20 ‘objects’ that you can use to look at halving (dried pasta, buttons, marbles etc) and use them to find half of 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. These are all even numbers because you can’t half an odd number equally and still have whole numbers.
- Now log onto ‘Topmarks hit the button’ (which is a free site) and then onto ‘halves’. Start with the first game in the top left corner ‘halves to 10’ then ‘5 to 15’ and ‘halves from 10 to 20’.
- If you’re feeling confident try ‘halves to 50’. Remember that in larger numbers you halve the ones first then halve the tens then put them back together eg) 36 would be halve the 6 which is 3, halve the 30 which is 15 then put the number back together 3+15=18. This is quite tricky so just do what you feel you can. We’re going to go over this again once we’re all back together in school hopefully very soon.
- Have a good week – see you all soon! Mrs Colin-Stokes
