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Welcome back to Mearns.
We’ve had a busy week getting to know each other, welcoming new class members and deciding on rules and routines. Whilst doing this we reminded ourselves of the UN convention on the Rights of the Child and created our rules with these in mind. We’ll have a display showing this next week.
The weather picked up a little, and although the ground was wet from heavy showers this morning we were able to take our jackets off and enjoy a warm dry afternoon of learning.
Using number stones and rainbow sticks we worked in teams to solve a number of challenges we were set. They really got us talking and thinking and Mrs Kelly was impressed with how we tackled the different problems together.
What a very warm afternoon out in the sunshine we enjoyed today, thank goodness we are so lucky to have so many trees give us shade as we work right enough!
We started off our lesson by searching the whole area to colour match against some old supermarket brochures. This helped us really analyse the amazing colours that are all around us.
After that we used natural materials to create these beautiful and bright daisies.
Today we explored a large area of the school grounds in search of mini beasts. We began with playing some games and noting down the names of mini beasts we knew.
After that we went on to search for some and took some photos of them where they seemed to enjoy living.
Finally we collected some to have a closer look and analysed them using a magnifying glass. We were all so curious and delighted at what detail we could see!
We spent time today reinforcing our understanding of rounding numbers to the nearest ten and adding and subtracting multiples of ten. We did this through various games and challenges which involved listening carefully to instructions and concentrating on each action we had to take. Here are some photographs of our activities and learning.
Today we made the shape of a pentagon and agreed that it must have five corners and five sides but that the sides didn’t have to be the same length.
We then moved on to play some games to encourage us to think about how we manipulate numbers and the easiest way to add them together to find the total. We looked for numbers that add to ten first, this seemed to be the favourite strategy! After that we looked for double numbers and near doubles. It was amazing just how many different ways we found to add up a few numbers and it was great to see how other people do this.
The sun shone all afternoon for us as we enjoyed learning about time outside today.
We played some warm up games to remind us about direction before moving on to making some numbers for our giant clock.
After that we talked about how the minute hand and hour hand move round the clock….
before making our own little clocks and playing some games with them showing how the hands on a clock move.
We then played a time hunt game where we had great fun hiding and searching for times to put on our giant clock.
Today we learned all about acute, right, obtuse and straight angles. We learned to identify them, tell the difference between them, make them and then use them to make shapes. We did all this through playing games and investigating outside.
After a triangle hunt on the way out to the pitch we organised ourselves into the shape of a triangle. While we were doing that some of the girls and boys noticed some triangles made by the clouds…..unfortunately they moved too quickly and we didn’t quite take the photos on time!
We then continued our learning using our mental maths skills to solve problems making certain totals along the sides of triangles.
and create friends of ten rockets by creating calculations that gave the answer ten inside the shape of a rocket made using sticks.
The sun shone for us all afternoon too which was great? 🌞
What a great day we spent observing the colour and texture of a variety of leaves. Carefully scrambling through the trees we spent time looking and focusing on the details of the leaves around us. We then used some of them to make some really interesting patterns before doing some beautiful leaf rubbings. Listen to the squeals of delight as we redistributed our collected leaves too!
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