Hi, everyone. Here are Wednesday’s activities for maths and English. Don’t forget to have a go at the daily challenge that Mrs Rowe has posted on the main school news page! The post for our afternoon activity will be published separately.

Maths

Watch the video: comparing numbers video Have a go at answering the questions when the video pauses, and pause it for longer if you need to. These symbols will be new to the children: < and >.

Question 3 on this sheet asks you to use ‘base 10’. At school, we call these ‘dienes’ and they are used a lot in Year 2. This idea of representing tens and ones in this way is quite new to us in Year 1. I would suggest that for question 3, you draw sticks to represent tens and dots to represent ones. Alternatively, you could use the following website which is designed as a teacher tool and is great for representing tens and ones as base 10/dienes: https://apps.mathlearningcenter.org/number-pieces/

Here is the sheet for today: Wednesday activity

If you would like extra practise at using these symbols, you may want to try this game: comparing numbers game  Stick to level 1 and press ‘reset’ to generate new numbers.

For a more tricky challenge, have a go at these two Carroll diagram problems. The sheets are below the image. Here is a helpful guide for how these work: guide to Carroll diagrams

Here is the sheet for the top puzzle: Carroll diagrams 1 new2

And the sheet for the bottom puzzle: Carroll diagrams 2 pdf NEW

English

Today we are going to look again at what verbs are. Start by watching the video on the BBC Bitesize website: verbs Remember that verbs can be written in the present tense if is something we generally do or are going now, or they can be written in the past tense if they have already happened. Work through the different activities on the BBC Bitesize link after you have watched the video.

I would like you to write some sentences to say how the following young man became so good at playing basketball. Last week we learnt about what it means to have a disability, and we saw some incredible examples of people with disabilities achieving mind-blowing things in sport and in art. Here is a short video starring a boy called Ezra French who has an inspiring message for adult, professional basketball players: Ezra French talks to NBA team

Can you write at least five sentences to say how you think Ezra became so amazing at basketball and then highlight the verb in each of your sentences? What has he done? What does he do? What do all athletes do to become really good at their sport and to stay fit and healthy? For example, one of your sentences could be:

Ezra practised really hard.

What is the verb in this sentence? What did he do? He practised. After you have written your sentences and spotted the verbs, decide whether the verb has been written in the past tense or in the present tense. Practised is past tense as it is something Ezra has done. Do you remember about many past tense verbs ending in ‘ed’?

Another sentence could be:

He believes in himself.

In this sentence, the verb is believes. This time, I have written a verb that is in the present tense as he does this every day and continues to do it!

Remember that every sentence you write needs a capital letter and a full stop.