It is Friday already! I can’t believe how quickly the past week has gone, it seems to have flown by!
Over the past week we have been looking at the book ‘The Story Machine’ by Tom McLaughlin, which we have really enjoyed exploring. During the week, we received a mysterious parcel from the boy Elliott in the story which contained a typewriter and a letter asking for our help to explain what the puzzling machine could be used for. We wrote back with some great ideas!Â
If you want to listen and share the story at home, you can listen to the author Tom read it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXVqCCeCPAU (adults, please check the video first as there may be external comments or enabled links to other videos/ adverts etc.).
In Maths, we have been partitioning and finding different ways we can make a number using resources such as dienes (blocks made up of tens and ones), to physically create these numbers and partition them to form equations. For example, we explored how the number 64 has 6 tens and 4 ones but we could also partition this number into 4 tens, 2 tens and 4 ones.Â
I am looking forward to next week and starting our new text ‘Here We Are’ and to share some of our learning. I hope you all have a lovely weekend! Miss Mansell
