Category: Numeracy

Even though our morning’s weather was quite dull we enjoyed brightness in our mood as we worked through our activities for the morning.

We started off getting ourselves into the shape of a triangle and playing a game to practise counting in threes.

Moving on to investigating place value and how to say larger numbers using some number stones.

Before collecting buttercups and playing an exchanging game in teams aiming to build a buttercup tree! We didn’t quite get it completed, so we will definitely play it again next week.

 

Today was dry but chilly for most of our time outdoors, so we were glad we took out our jackets just incase. 😊

We organised ourselves into the months of our birthdays to start off today. Knowing important facts like the date and month we were born in is really helpful when we are playing games to organise ourselves, just like knowing where our name comes in the alphabet, it’s good to know when our birthdays come in the year.

Using different strategies like ‘friends of ten’ and ‘double numbers’ is  useful when we are adding lots of numbers together. So we practised doing this today in our teams using stones. Here are some photographs of us working together doing just that.

And here are two great videos of Sam and Mayar explaining how to group numbers together to make it easier to work out the total of all the numbers given.

The weather was chilly and drizzly this morning but it didn’t dampen our spirits as we went on a triangle hunt and organised ourselves into a triangle before we started our other activities.

We were learning today about ‘friends of ten’ , that’s two numbers that add together to make ten. This is a really important part of numeracy and we all have to learn these facts so we know the pairs without even having to think about it! Here are some photos of us playing and working on remembering the facts.