We started off maths week by reading a story called ‘Tally O’Malley’. The book was all about a family playing a game by choosing which colour of car they thought would be most popular and then counting them using tally marks to see who was the winner. We then had a go at this ourselves, with us counting all of the cars that drove passed the school.

We also read a story called ‘ice cream for everyone’. We had a class vote to find out everyone’s favourite flavour of ice-cream and made a pictogram to show the results. Bubblegum was our winner!

Next we read ‘The Doorbell Rang’ by Pat Hutchins. In the book, two children have cookies to share, but people keep arriving and they keep having to share their cookies with more and more people! We solved problems about biscuits ourselves.  We talked about how acting out the problem would help us solve it, and we used play dough as pretend cookies.

Next we baked our own cookies! We enjoyed helping to weigh out the ingredients and getting a turn to cream the butter and sugar. We also had to split the dough into smaller parts at the end to make each cookie.

If only Mrs Grieve hadn’t left them in for an extra five minutes just to make sure they were cooked! She’s not planning on applying for Bake Off any time soon!

Wishing everyone a relaxing long weekend!