It is Maths Week! Our blog this week will show you all the excellent learning experiences we have had whilst exploring Outdoors!
We were super keen to play noughts and crosses, however, as we did not have any of the pieces for the game, we created our own!
We measured different plants and cut long strips to create a grid! We used stones and pebbles for the noughts and crosses. Whilst playing this game, we were discussing patterns, shapes and problem solving!
Whilst we were playing, we wanted to create an obstacle course. Although, we had to tell Miss Amin what shapes our objects and resources were before using them.
‘The tyres are circles and has no corners’.
‘The crates are rectangles and squares. They both have four corners and four edges.’
‘The pipes are like thin rectangles’.
We created a label at the beginning of our obstacle course which says ‘Start’.
Time for the fun part, completing our obstacle course and maintaining our balance and control!
The mud kitchen is the perfect place to explore volume! We were making potions and could identify if our potion was empty, half empty, full and half full. We were extending our vocabulary by using different measurement terms.
We love to use chalk for mark making! We are making number lines and practising our number formation.
We made a a number house!
We created our own hopscotches! We also played maths game. For example, if someone shouted out 6, you had to jump on that number!
As we were drawing pictures on the ground, we explored Symmetry. We realised when we draw a picture, if we draw a line straight down the middle, the picture is symmetrical. However, we know that both sides must be the same!
As well as learning and exploring Maths outdoors, here are some ways we explored it inside our classroom.
We were learning about ordinal positions using loose parts, tubes and cars. We were racing one another and solving which one would come 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th!
We were also trying to solve how to make the cars travel in a different way and faster! We were working together as a team to do this!
We have also been learning about weight. We were using different objects to weigh and were learning how to use a 2 pan balancing scale. We had to determine which objects were the heaviest to the lightest.
We were comparing numbers and determining which one is smaller and bigger! As a challenge, we had to determine how much bigger a number was for example if a number was 3 and a number was 7, by how many is 7 bigger than 3?
As we order lunch everyday, we decided to create a chart to see which lunch option is the most popular! We were learning about different ways you can record and document information.
Maths week has been filled with amazing learning indoors and outdoors! We will continue to work super hard in Maths everyday in class!
Tuesday was a super exciting day as you were all given your first ever homework! I hope everything on Google Classroom makes sense and you have fun from week to week completing your activities!
Well done for working so hard as always Primary One,
Have a wonderful weekend!xx
