Last week, we were very lucky to have some fantastic visitors to our class who told us all about how they use Mathematics in their world of work. We heard all about pensions, computer generated images, being a GP, working with leather, creating spreadsheets, being an archaeologist and how high school maths links with design and manufacturing sports equipment (though the children were much more interested in the job at McDonalds that pays for all of the expensive trainers).
We’ve launched our new topic, but Sssh! It’s a secret.
In Maths we’ve been working with numbers, identifying Place Value, ordering numbers almost to 1,000,000, practicing our mental maths addition and subtraction skills and dividing with remainders.
We’ve linked Literacy with Health & Wellbeing, analysing the words to “This is Me” from the Greatest Showman which led to some fantastic discussion in class about what it means to be different and how society’s view on disability was very different in the past.
While the children were off on Tuesday, the teachers were completing HeartStart Training and so the children will be coming home with new First Aid Skills very soon.
Today we have been combining art and maths. Looking at shapes –
“Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.” Paul Cézanne
We spent time looking at sunflowers to see what patterns were visible. Ask your child about the Fibonacci Sequence…
