using a calendar | Dunlop Primary School

Monday 7^th December Numeracy

Let’s begin today by showing your grown-up that you can count in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. To help you do this you could sing along to the Scratch garden or Singing Walrus videos on Youtube.

Our focus in numeracy recently has been time. This week please continue to focus on o’clock and half past. Remember to show your grown up these times digitally. Of course if you can show other times then let your grown up see quarter past or quarter to.

Today I have uploaded a calendar for the month of December. Can you add some events that your family might take part in or events that happen in school? You might want to include the time it takes as well. (Perhaps you put up Christmas light between five o’clock and six o’clock on the 5^th of December).Then you could give your calendar to a grown up at home and ask them some questions.

For example

On what day do I sledging?

When is Christmas jumper day?

On what day do I make a gingerbread house?

When do I put my Christmas tree up?

The children have been learning about time. The focus has been on o’clock and half past. Last week the focus moved to digital time. Many children were able to show o’clock and half past digitally.

We have been discussing

how many seconds in a minute
minutes in an hour
days in a week/fortnight/month/year
hours in a day
the days of the week (names/order)
the months of the year (names/order/ how many)
Seasons

This week if you are in the larger maths group then your focus is now on using a simple calendar. Please see the image that is attatched to this post. Can you answer the questions about the information that is on the calendar