We have started the New Year off with a very busy week of learning.

Literacy

• Developing our reading skills using fiction and non-fiction texts.
• Developing our predicting skills by finding clues in a text.
• Developing our sentence structure.
• Developing our vocabulary.
• Developing our listening and talking skills.
• Developing our cursive writing skills.
• Developing our spelling of everyday words.
• Developing our functional writing skills with a focus on newspaper reports.
• Using the features of the first paragraph of a report – when, what ,who, where, why.

Numeracy

• Developing our accuracy and speed for addition, subtraction and multiplication calculations.
• Discussing the strategies we use for addition calculations including near doubles, near jigsaw, knowledge of 10 + calculations and fact families.
• Developing strategies for addition calculations over a decade.
• Developing our understanding and recall of times tables.
• Developing our use of 4 methods for making addition calculations including traditional, diamonds, grid and jump.
• Working out the calculation we need to do for ‘real-life’ addition examples.
• Explaining the methods we are using to others.
• Developing our knowledge of analogue and digital time.

IDL

• Developing our cooperative skills.
• Developing our thinking skills.
• Developing skills needed for team games.
• Developing our knowledge of the Vikings.
• Developing our art/technology skills using a variety of materials- our Viking Longship is ready to sail!