Month: April 2021

Today we started our outdoor session by organising ourselves into a pentagon. We were fabulous at listening to each other and sorting ourselves into five straight lines. We then played some concentration games to help us learn to focus, even when other things are happening all around us.

After that we sorted ourselves out into birthday order! This took quite a bit of organisation!

Our final job was to work on adding groups of single digits and finding the total….the real challenge was exploring all the different ways we could do this. It was great listening to each other to hear all the different ways people group numbers and add numbers together.

Some people then went on to create their own games to practise number bonds and group and split numbers to find totals too.

What a glorious afternoon to spend outside learning today. After searching for circles, arranging ourselves into a circle and discussing the properties of a circle we learned that the distance between the centre and the side of a circle is called the radius.

We then played some warm up games involving passing names round in a clockwise and anti clockwise direction before moving on to re enforcing some of our previous learning on time.

We made a giant clock and acted out how the hands move round each hour.

We then added numbers and analogue and digital times round the outside.

 

Finally we made our own mini clocks to show different times and help work out how long it was between two different times.

What a difference a week makes with the weather! We had a lovely afternoon of dry and cool weather and even a little sunshine. 😎

Firstly we played some warm up games and practised rounding numbers to the nearest ten. We definitely got faster the more we played and are now rounding experts. 👍

Next we revisited our learning from last week on angles and showed our understanding by playing some games then by creating shapes and identifying the types of angles in the shapes. We marked acute angles with stones, right angles with shells and obtuse angles with cones. Mrs Kelly set us some challenges and we worked really well in teams to show what we had learned.