Saturday 3 Sep

I'm hoping that place value to hundreds is now secure. I've also started using a spike abacus which I used a saw on to reduce the length of each spike so it could only take 9 counters. When using the abacus for addition it then shows that once you get to 9 you have to add a counter to the next spike as there is no more room on the Units spike! Have also used the BBC KS2 game for addition, which he was very excited by and did well on in terms of carrying over the ten, but it did highlight he still has more work to do on addition to 20. I need to get across the concept of one more I.e. 6+6=12, therefore 6+7=13. Will try using counters.