Skip Counting

Today we skip counted in 2's, 3's, 4's and 5's. Practice at home because this helps you in multiplication and to count things faster.

Here are some games to do more practice;
Counting Game
Count in 1,2,3,5,10,100
Skip counting game
Skip count - fruit shoot
Skip count - Balloon pop

Homonyms

Pears in pairs and breaking brakes and bears going bare. It’s all in their….. I mean there!

Homonyms are words with the same sound.
They have different meanings and different spellings.

This songs clearly explains the difference between words which have the same sound; homonyms :-)

These are some games where you play with homonyms.

Homonyms match
Match the homonyms to reveal the picture

2d shapes

This year besides the usual 2d shapes (square, rectangle, circle and triangle) we came across 3 new shapes;
Pentagon which has 5 sides and 5 corners'
Hexagon which has 6 sides and 6 corners,
Octagon which has 8 sides and 8 corners.

Below are some links to shapes games. enjoy playing and learning :-)

Mystery Shape

Shape store - Make a picture using shapes

Fractions

A fraction is a part of a whole.
The number at the bottom shows in how many parts the object is divided.
The number at the top shows the number of parts which are shaded.

 

A quarter is
one part out of 4.

2 quarters make up a half

Here are some websites which give further explanation about fractions as well as games to test how much you really know about fractions :-)

Fractions explained

Fraction Flags

I am also including these videos to provide further support.

Road Safety

Recently we had a talk from the Health & Safety team about staying safe on the road. Children participated actively in the discussion and gave insightful tips on the topic. As a follow up we drew a poster illustrating ways and means of how to stay safe on the road. Here is some of our work.

Remember: STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, LIVE

Doubling/Doubles

This week we are covering doubles. We said that doubling is:

• repeated addition (adding the same number twice)
• multplying by 2
• all doubles are even numbers

double 5 = 10

double 6 = 12

Practice doubles by playing this game
Ladybird doubles

Prepositions

Prepositions are words which tells us about direction and/or position.

Here are some of the prepositions which we have tackled in class:

 

 

Here is the link for the prepositions game we did in class:

Prepositions - Where is the mouse hiding? 

And now time for some extra work :-)) These are 2 links for handouts which you can print out and work. I'll be more than happy to correct them for you.

Where is the dog? handout

Where is it? Read and draw handout