Category: Maths

The wet weather today meant plans had to be changed and we took part in different activities and challenges to develop our understanding of place value.

We used number stones and rainbow sticks and worked together in teams to create lots of different numbers.

With the rainbow sticks we counted how many of each colour we had then decided which should be hundreds tens and units to make the largest and smallest numbers possible.

And with the number stones we moved them around to see just how many numbers we could make out of the stones we had gathered. Our team work was fantastic today and we really worked together well to help us all understand place value a little better.

Today we travelled outside counting up in tens. We learned and remembered that when we add or subtract ten from any number that the unit digit doesn’t change. This really helped us become more confident in counting up and down in tens.

We then moved on to placing numbers within 100 on to a giant number line. Before rounding these numbers to the nearest ten.

Finally we had lots of fun sorting out the numbers and playing some rounding games together.

What a glorious day to spend outside for outdoor learning today! The sun didn’t stop shining and helped make our learning even more fun!

We started off with some warm up games to make sure we know which way is left and which way is right.

After that we organised ourselves into time order then stood at the correct positions round our giant clock.

Once we had made numbers for our clock we learned about how the big hand goes round the clock one whole turn every hour while the little hand only moves round one next mover each hour.

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We then played a hunting game to match digital times with the analogue time on our giant clock.

Finally we tried to make some shadow numbers with our bodies to go round our clock…..it was much trickier than it sounds!

Today we enjoyed being outside spotting symmetry in nature and also on ourselves! We were really good a5 spotting shapes that weren’t symmetrical too!

We then went on to work in pairs to create our own symmetrical patterns. We took time to check and double check we had all the parts facing the right way and placed in exactly the right positions. It was great fun and we really enjoyed looking at all the patterns we had made too.

What a productive morning we had today on this lovely cold and bright spring day.

Firstly we went on a triangle hunt then made triangles with our bodies before organising ourselves into the shape of a triangle.

Next we played some games to practise the mental maths strategy – friends of ten.

And finally we made some ten rockets…look at all the calculations we made!