Today, we read Peg and Cat: The Pizza Problem by Jennifer Oxley. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip). We learnt that every whole can be divided into two equal halves.
After the story, we explored wholes, halves and quarters using wraps and discovered how to identify a whole, split it into two halves and even divide it further into four quarters.
Help at Home: Find a piece of food (fruit, bread or a wrap like we used at school). Try cutting it in half and for an extra challenge, cut it into quarters. Can you see how many halves or quarters make one whole?
Use the sentence stems:
- There are two halves in every whole.
- There are four quarters in every whole.