Today we had fun exploring and investigating numbers.We played lots of team games to make the smallest and largest numbers we could make given five digits and also to find the total of five digits. We tried to find the quickest and easiest way to total the numbers using our mental maths strategies. It’s amazing all the different ways numbers can add together!

We then worked in pairs to create our own clocks and showed how the hands move round the clock making quarter past, half past and quarter to the hour.

Today was our first outdoor learning day where we didn’t need jackets! Spring is definitely here.

Our shape today was a circle and we spotted lots on our journey outside before organising ourselves into a circle once we got to our base. We reminded ourselves that a circle is a 2D shape with one curved side as we played some warm up games to try to focus our listening and concentration.

Our main learning today was on time and how to read o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to on an analogue clock. We used sticks and stones to help remind us how a clock face looks and how the hands move round, then we challenged each other to make different times. Some of us also made our own mini clocks using sticks with no numbers on the face!

We spotted lots of lovely little creatures today as we worked too.

Outdoor learning today was a bit chilly and blustery, but we still managed to take part in lots of activities to work on our mental maths and ordering skills and also creating, identifying and describing acute, right, obtuse and straight angles.

Here are some photos of our challenge shapes. We had to make shapes with all right angles, all acute angles, all obtuse angles then one with a mix of different kinds of angles. There was lots of team discussion going on as we worked out which shapes fitted into which categories.