P6.21 have been building on their prior knowledge of place value and creating structures using concrete materials. While constructing buildings they had to ensure they calculated the value of each building.
Category Archives: Mathematics
Spelling and estimating outdoors
Our warm up game today helped develop our word creating skills using vowels, consonants and golden question marks. We got into teams and collected stones with letters on them to work together making long words and short words. It was great when we picked golden question marks as they could be any letter we wanted! Team work was really important and all of us worked well on this task.
Next we used ‘Sammy snakes’ (who misbehaved a bit while Mrs Kelly held them! ) to help us work on our estimation skills. Finally we went exploring in the forest to find trees of all different heights and practised estimating just how tall they were.
click on this link to hear some estimation in action:
Place value games and shape studying
We worked in teams using rainbow sticks today to revise place value and do a bit of problem solving at the same time by making the largest and smallest numbers we could as well as working out how many different numbers we could make with a given number of sticks.
After that we investigated 2D shapes by making them out of different materials and discussing their properties.
