COORDINATES - TOPIC LINK

This week, we are learning to read and write coordinates. This is a life skill. You need it for map reading, whether it's to find your way to a new place, or want to be an explorer - knowing about coordinates will help you.

Once you've learnt to use them, you are going to create your own map of a zoo, to link with our animal kingdom topic. You will need to create a grid, plot the features in the zoo and then list the attractions with their coordinates.

MAP OF WHIPSNADE ZOO WITHOUT COORDINATES - How much easier would it be with coordinates?

TELLING THE TIME

This week, we are going to be developing our skills in telling the time. We will be working with analogue time (clock faces) and digital time.

This is a life skill and one you really need to master. There are activities on your group blog pages, but really you can have a go anywhere there is a clock. In school, at home, out shopping. 

                                                                              

This video clip will help you, if you are finding telling the time challenging. You can watch it as many times as you need to.

NUMBER PAIRS TO 100

This week, we are going to be working on our number pair knowledge. We will start working with multiples of 5, to 100 and then progress on. It is important that you make good use of your number pairs to 10, to support your learning.

PLACE VALUE

Knowing the value of each digit in a number is really important. Watch this video clip were the Chuckle Brothers find out how to use digits to make the right number.

PLACE VALUE

HALVING NUMBERS

Having learnt how to double, using the partitioning method, we are going to now learn how to half numbers. You can use this video clip to help you, if you get stuck.

DOUBLING NUMBERS

We are now going to start learning how to double 2 digit numbers.
Remember that doubling (double 3) is the same as adding 2 numbers that are the same
 together (3+3 = 6) and multiplying them by 2 (2 x 3=6)

You can watch this video clip to remind you how to do it, if you get stuck.

3D SHAPES

3D shapes are all around you, so it's important to understand about them. Their names and their properties.

This link takes you to a website, which tells you about 3D shapes. It names a variety of shapes and allows you to look at them from different angles.

EXPLORE 3D SHAPES

This video clip, will help to remind you about the properties of shape (how we describe a shape, other than its name).

SHAPE & LINES OF SYMMETRY

We will watch this video clip, to remind us what lines of symmetry are.

BBC LEARNING ZONE CLIP

If we think about the big picture - which jobs do you think might need this skill?

NUMBER BONDS TO 20

This week, we are going to be working with addition (+) and subtraction(-) facts to 20. These are really important to know, to help you with larger numbers. Lots of jobs need  you to use them too. The link below will show you how you can make numbers easy to add up.

ADDING UP NUMBERS QUICKLY

Place Value

To start the year, we are going to make our own top trump cards to play with. Top trumps is a great game to test your place value knowledge. So, it is important to make sure you understand the place value of numbers, in order to play the game.

 This video is really good at explaining it, if you aren't sure. You can watch it lots of times, if you need to.