• School will be closed on Thursday 12th December due to local elections taking place

Home Learning 19.5.20

Tuesday 19th May 2020

Hello Crocodiles,

Don’t forget you can send us pictures of your work at crocodileclass@purston.wakefield.sch.uk or tweet them to @infantpurston on our school twitter account.

Here is today’s home learning activity:

Maths-Number-

Can you use materials at home or outside to practice representing numbers.

(This can look like any of the below pictures. It can be children mark making lines, making a tally, drawing dots and circles or showing the number by holding up fingers, counting out a number of leaves/sticks/toys. It can be children forming the written numeral using their fingers, pencils, mark making equipment etc).

You could use:

  • Chalk outside in your garden
  • Salt in a tray/ on a plate
  • Shaving foam outside/in a tray or on a plate.
  • Paint in ziplock bags (sealed with sellotape)
  • Using leaves or sticks.
  • Your fingers
  • Pen and paper
  • A drawing/writing app on a tablet.

Ask your child to show you the number- E.g. “Can you show me number 3?”- You can model the first one you ask by collecting 3 twigs and putting them side by side, writing 3 lines in chalk or forming the numeral 3. Then ask your child to show you the number 1 using the same method.

Make it easier – To represent numbers to 3 or 5. This would work better representing by asking your child to hold fingers up, collect objects and line them up or draw dots/ lines/ circles instead of forming the actual numeral.

Challenge– To represent numbers to 10 or 20. Ask your child to draw dots/ lines/ circles or to form the actual numeral. Remember to make sure your numeral faces the right way.

Thank you

Miss Crossley