We have been doing lots of work on place value recently.  The children have really enjoyed playing a game called ZAP which involves using their understanding of place value to help them take away.

I thought I would put an overview on here in case you wanted to play it with your child at home. It is a game that you can play with paper or with a calculator.

If your child is in Year 3 they must work with 3 digit numbers.

If your child is in Year 4, they must work with 4 digit numbers.

Give your child a number (make sure all the digits are different) – e.g. 432.

Tell them which number you would like them to ZAP (by zapping a number you are making it go to 0) – e.g. the 3.

Ask your child to write a take away sum to show what they have done (or type it into the calculator if playing the game that way) – e.g. 432 – 30 = 402

An extension is to ask your child to ZAP 2 numbers, e.g. ZAP the 4 and the 3.

They may write different number sentences for this, e.g.

432 – 400 – 30 = 2 or 432 – 430 = 2

Enjoy!

Class 3 History Homework – Due in Wednesday 3^rd May 2016

As part of our History topic we will be looking at the Family Tree of the British Royal Family and I thought it would be nice for children to have a go at creating their own family tree. With this in mind, please could you help your child to gather information about your family. They do not need to create a family tree as we will be doing this in class but it would be helpful for them to know the names of the people in their family and to know how they are related. This can be jotted down on a piece of paper and children can even bring in photographs if they want to but this is by no means essential.

Thank you for your support.

I have asked the children to write a diary as though they are a sea explorer this week. I have recently given out their targets and these should’ve come home with your child today – I would like them to focus on their target when they are completing this activity.

T-T-5553-Sea-Explorer-Diary-Writing-Frames – Armstrong group (This group are only expected to do Day 1 but can do more if they wish).

T-T-5553A-Sea-Explorer-Diary-Writing-Frames-with-Story-Starters Cook, Scott, Columbus and Fiennes (these groups are only expected to do Day 1 & 2 but can do more if they wish).