Musical Theatre
The pupils will be performing a play of the story ‘The Tortoise and The Hare’ in September. They have been taught the actions and dialogue for their roles. I will be giving each of them the script on Monday. It will be good if you can help them to practice their lines.
Grammar
1. Adverbials – one day, every day/evening/morning, tomorrow, in a few days
one day - used to start a story
every day/evening/morning - used to show that something happens daily
tomorrow, in a few days - to show something that will happen in the future
Mathematics
Numbers Up to 40: Key Areas of Focus
1. Count in groups of 10.
For example:
10, 20, 30, 40
2. Revise the concept of place value: tens and ones. This is an important concept they must understand. I use ten-dollar notes and one-dollar coins to help them understand this concept.The ten-dollar note represents the tens and the 1-dollar coin represent the ones.
For example:
2 tens = 20 and 40 = 4 tens
2 ones = 2 and 6 = 6 ones
32 = 3 tens and 2 ones
Common errors:
32 = 30 tens and 2 ones
3. Writing the numerals in words.
Common errors:
40 = fourty (x) instead of 40 = forty
29 = twenty nine (x) instead of 29 = twenty-nine
4. Number Patterns
For example:
33______, ______, 24, 21, ______
Pupils are usually unable to do this question. I ask them to focus on the given numbers that are beside each other. In this case 24 and 21. Then I ask them what they have to do to 24 to get 21. In this case subtract 3. Then I ask them to do the same to 33 to get the number beside it. In this case, 33-3 to get 30.
Thank you for the support you give to your child at home.
