Inspire Maths

This half term the focus will be numbers to 100.

• Recognise, read and write numbers up to 100 and the corresponding number words and concrete representations.

• Represent numbers as tens and ones in a place value chart.

• Use a ‘comparing tens and then ones’ strategy to compare numbers to 100.

• Add a 2-digit number and another 2 digit number with regrouping.

• Subtract a 2 digit number from another 2 digit number with regrouping.

We will also be developing our wider Maths skills in our exploration of 2D and 3D shape and pattern..

We develop our understanding of numerical concepts using the Concrete, Pictorial and Abstract approach. We enjoy discussing our ideas with our Maths partners, talking about what we can see in our Inspire Maths textbooks then demonstrating our understanding using equipment before moving on to recording activities in our books. 

We apply our mathematical skills during our topic work involving real life contexts. We love exploring Mathematical ideas in our environment during outdoor learning and we are amazing at using our mathematical skills in Guided Play!

We Love Maths!

Mental Maths Skills

This half term during our Maths Meetings we will be revisiting some skills already taught to consolidate and reinforce knowledge, keeping those skills on the boil!

• To count forwards and backwards within 20/100 crossing the tens.

• To say one more and one less within 20/100.

• Counting forwards and backwards in 2's. 5's and 10's.

• Reading and writing numbers to 100  (ensuring teen numbers are understood e.g 15 not 50!)

• Number bonds of 5/10.

Talk for writing

This term our story is How the World was made. Every day we practise learning parts of the story using a text map and physical actions developed by our class. Every day we build on our knowledge of the story by learning the next sentence and over the term each individual becomes more confident at retelling the story orally. 

"Children who are read to at home, or who come from an oral tradition of storytelling, embed such patterns without really knowing it, as if some form of linguistic osmosis was at work. At this early stage, it is significant that the child is ‘hearing’ the language. This matters because we learn language by hearing it and then by saying it. So, storytelling and rhyme chanting are powerful aspects of acquiring language patterns that might not be met in everyday talk." Pie Corbett 2008

RWI 

Cwl Cymraeg! 

We promote using Welsh at every opportunity in and around the school, see below for sentence structures we are working on so that you can practise at home. 

Week 1 - Faint ydy dy oed di?

Week 2 - Sut maer tywydd heddiw?

Week 3 - Beth wyt ti'n wneud? 

Week 4 - Beth sydd gyda ti?

Week 5 - Sut wyt ti'n teimlo?

Week 6 - Pa fwyd wyt ti'n hoffi?