This week Year 2 have been practising counting in 10s  from different numbers and have been thinking about different ways to represent '10s' numbers. 

We found that instead of drawing 10 counters / cubes etc we could make each counter / cube worth 10 (instead of 1).

Here we have used the tens frames to show this:

We have also been using what we know to find out what we don't know and work out number bonds to 100 using our number bonds to 10.

Year 1 have been working on adding 2 numbers together and solving 'missing number' problems using pictorial methods (drawing!) to help us.

We have been writing number sentences in different ways to, to help us remember that addition  sentences can be written in many ways. 

We have planned our new superhero stories this week - first we talked about our key ideas :

• Who is the new superhero? 
• Where is the story going to happen? 
• What is the problem in the story and how does it get sorted out?

We then transferred our ideas to a 'story mountain' and added a bit more information.

Finally, today we have been thinking about how we can make our stories as fantastic as possible when we write them next week

Mrs Flynn wrote her ideas down on the board and we helped her sort out her story so it was much more interesting and was written in sentences using the correct punctuation. 

We realised if we just quickly wrote our ideas down we missed out the 'WOW' words and lots of our sentences didn't make sense or missed out punctuation!

Home Learning
Due Thursday 29th November 

Your Home Learning is a Maths task based on what we have been doing in class this week. 

Year 1 should find the missing numbers and complete the calculations by drawing the dots onto the ladybirds.

Year 2 should complete the counting in tens number tracks - use the 100 square to help you or challenge yourself to try it with this covered up!

If you are not sure what to do please let me know before Thursday.

Finally, a letter has gone home today with details of your child's part in our Christmas performance - some ideas for costumes have been provided but please let any of us know if you are having any trouble getting together a costume and we will try to help in any way we can.

Thank you!