Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

This week we took our numeracy work out to the playground. We worked in groups and had great fun creating a shop. We sold things like leaves, sticks and pine cones. We had to make price tags and take turns to be a customer or a shopkeeper. We also had turns at playing hopscotch which helped us count on and back. The other thing we enjoyed doing was drawing our own number lines with chalk. We tried to count in 2’s and took turns to find missing numbers. It was great to be learning and playing outside.

P6/5 had a great time doing maths outdoors this morning.  First we collected, counted and sorted a variety of natural materials.  Some children arranged them into a symmetrical picture and some sorted them into categories by colour, shape, size or where they came from.  We then used the natural resources to count and create a bar chart headed “Natural Resources in our Playground.” To develop our understanding of fractions, we used sticks to create our own equivalent fraction walls.  Well done P6/5, great work!

P5/4 enjoyed learning about their 2,4 and 8 times tables outdoors today.  First we collected natural materials for our tens frames. Then we looked at ways to sort them and arrange them.  Some children saw lines of symmetry, some sorted into really interesting categories I.e. from beach, woodland and garden. We then used the natural materials to create a variety of arrays and practise our multiplication by using the game “hopscotch.” Well done P5/4! 

We have been using something in maths called Numicon. It is helping us with lots of concepts. We have done addition stories, pattern, symmetry and counting. It’s great fun and a fantastic visual for understanding numbers.

We have been working on using wow words in literacy. We wrote some lovely stories about Mr Potato Head. We are good  at using adjectives . Come and read our stories in class.

P7 have been using “Rigour Maths” – a children’s newspaper page related to current media news that challenges children to solve mathematical problems. Excellent problem solving P7!