We thought we would share with you today what we have been exploring in our literacy corner, lines! We began our journey of exploration looking at a story called A Line Can Be…..
We loved using our fingers to follow the lines in the book, developing our descriptive language to describe the different kinds of lines we could see.
“My finger is going for a walk in the book!.”“Round and round.”
We began to explore lines further. We started by using pens and acetate paper to explore what kind of lines we could make. Some of our younger children used their knowledge of shapes whilst mark making.
“Circles”“Dot, dot, dot”
Some of our older children explored drawing fast and slow, sharing with each other what happened as their pen made lines across the paper.
Look, when we go faster and faster, the line gets messy, messy messy.”
Others enjoyed exploring the different types of lines they could make.
“I am going to try making boxes like in the book.”“My lines are loopy lines.”
We even discovered that we could turn our lines into different shapes to create pictures!
“Look! My lines have made a picture! I have done my family.”
We had so much fun making lines with pens, we decided to explore a different way of making lines, playdough! This time the children were using their knowledge of the different types of lines, using descriptive words to share what they had made with each other. Some children used line templates to imprint into the playdough and some rolled the playdough into different familiar lines.
“I need to push down hard.”“What will happen?”” I am making a spiral with my playdough line.”“Look I have rolled it into a big circle!.”
In our Home Room this week we have been celebrating Maths Week Scotland. We have been using the different learning areas In our Home Room to explore this years‘ Maths Week Scotland theme of ‘finding the beauty in maths’, learning how we use maths in all different ways.
In our Baking and Sewing Areas…. As part of Maths Week have been exploring pattern through making some yummy fruit kebabs! We talked about the different colours, shapes and sizes of the fruit and then used our favourites to create a fruity pattern.
Some of the children were able to copy and continue a simple pattern using their favourite two fruits.
‘I like grapes”“Ben do it.”
Some children were able to create their own more complex patterns with three different kinds of their favourite fruit.
“I am doing the same again.”
“I need the banana again.”
In our sewing area we made patterns threading our different coloured beads, and sewing patterns onto the leaves we collected. We had to concentrate hard as it was very tricky!
“In and out.”“I’m doing colours.”
In our Playdough Area…
In our playdough area we have been learning how to make our playdough more independently. We have been using measuring, pouring and filling skills to correctly follow the recipe . We decided to record our recipe and display it to help our friends make their own.
“I scoop of salt.”
In our Home Corner……… Stories are a great way to engage children in mathematical conversations. Stories help children to see the relevance of maths to their own lives and develop their understanding of mathematical concepts and language in meaningful contexts.
We explored the story of Simon the Sock. Simon is an odd stripey sock. He lives in the sock drawer with all the other socks. Every sock in the drawer has a pair…except for Simon. Will he ever find his match?
Through exploring the story the children were able to use and develop mathematical skills such as sorting, matching, reasoning and comparing. We loved looking through Simon’s sock drawer. We used our matchIng skills to help Simon find all the matching pairs!
We then used our observation skills to look at the different patterns. We described all the patterns we could see, spots, stripes, stars and some of us even spotted that we had patterns on our own socks on our feet! Simon the sock challenged us to use our sorting skills to each decide a different way we could sort our socks. We even used our mark making skills to record how we were going to sort them each time!
When we had completed our challenge we matched all the socks together again in their pairs, well all apart from Simon!
We wonder if any of you have an odd socks like Simon in your home?!
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