What's the Time Mr Wolf?

Year 1 have been learning about time and clocks. We have learnt that a clock can be divided into halves and quarters and this can help us tell the time. We noticed that there are 60 minutes on a clock and these are in groups of 5. We have been practising our half past times...we can say it two ways - half past 6 or six thirty (6:30).

Below are some blank clock faces. If you want to print them off at home and put some half past times on them you can then play Crocodile, Crocodile with them...or make your own watches with times on them!

Some Learning at Home activity suggestions

 

A reading activity idea  -  after you read your home reader this week, why don’t you try and be a word detective and find describing words (adjectives) on 3 pages of your home reader.

If you like you could also practice some sight words by playing the following game... 

Click here to play a sight word game

One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab

This week we read the book 'One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab' by April Pulley and Jeff Sayre.

This book challenged us to think about the different ways that we can put numbers together to represent a new number.

In the book, each animal represented a number. 

 We followed a success criteria to show the different ways that we could make the number 10.

 We wonder which numbers you could try to make at home using the success criteria?

Some numbers you might like to try are 12, 20 and 16.

Math activities to play

Below is a link to a website that reinforces some of the concepts we cover at school in Mathematics.
Since we have a hands on approach to problem solving in Mathematics, this site is more directed as question and answer type problems, so we strongly suggest you sit with your child to complete the activities so that you can discuss together what the task is asking them to do. Alternatively you can use some materials you may have at home for your child to use to help them solve the problems and model their thinking.

This is not a compulsory task, but upon reflection from our 3 way conferences and feedback from yourselves we thought we'd offer you and your child some extra activities and resources you can access from home.

Mathematics Link