There is always so much going in class and it is lovely to see how well the children have all settled and how they enjoy learning through play. Their discussions are second to none. They are a curious class and are encouraged to try things out for themselves as they work things out. The teachers are always at hand to give support if required, but we always ask the children to try first. The children also ask lots of questions and we adjust our planning to suit their needs and satisfy their answers. “ Why are the leaves yellow? What makes them crispy?” Let’s learn about trees, leaves and the environment they grow in! Then they asked about birds….. and so it snowballs!
We have been looking at 2D shapes this week. We have been making patterns with them;monsters and colouring luring our shapes, following a key. We are all at different levels, but we all work to the best of our ability.
Some of us have been looking at numbers before and after and looking at the quantity of numbers. Some of us have been learning to use a number line and have started to add on 1.
Every day, we practise our days of the week song and then we have to say which days come before and after. It can be quite tricky. We also sing our Months of the Year song and put our hands up when it is our birthday month. As if that isn’t enough, we sing our money song about 1p, 2p, 5 p and 10p. Oh- and then we look at numbers to 20 on “Splat”. We are definitely learning through play, but we also work very hard!
We try to keep our children engaged and active in their class work and play. This week, we have changed a few things. The children were highly delighted and love to try new things.
We were very busy in Maths today! We were comparing sizes of objects and organised pencils from longest to shortest. We have also started looking at money and were working with 1p coins.
It’s Maths Week at Mearns Primary and we have been busy in 1.3 counting, practicing our days of the week and months of the year. We also make numbers – we are becoming experts at it.
Today we went for a number walk to see how many things in groups we could find. There was great discussion and lots of laughing.
It is important that we learn through play. The children often don’t realise that they are learning. They learn social skills, discussion skills as were as formal learning of maths and language. The children ask us for different areas to become available in class and we do our best to do this.
