numeracy – P4.14 Blog 2023/24

Outdoor Day March 21st

Today we took full advantage of the lovely sunny weather and spent most of the day outside.

Here we are all reading together, we chose books from the library and set up an outdoor classroom.

Normally we start a Monday morning with out phonics work, therefore we took part in our phonics activity outside. We create phonics flowers on paper plates.

Following our STEM week focus on Growth we read a story all about the life cycle of a frog. We then created our own life cycle diagrams on our paper plates.

As part of our maths work we have been working on data handling. We created tables showing our results using sticks, leaves or stones. Together as a whole class we created a table showing our favourite chocolate. Our choices were Dairy Milk, Chocolate Buttons or Freddos. Chocolate buttons won!

In the afternoon we carried out out Health and Well being Circle Time on the pitch in the sunshine. We chatted about friendship, feelings and being aware of the feelings of others in different situations.

“The Home of Wild Life, our Outdoor Adventure”

On Monday we spent most of the day outside. It wasn’t too cold and we had great fun. We even enjoyed some sunshine in the afternoon.

Here are some of the children’s comments

“We were making tents.” – R

“We went on a bear hunt!” – B

“We were doing some calculations with leaves.” – C

“We did activities like making crafts and doing maths.” – O

“We were even making crafts, little houses and doing maths.” – U

“We (they) made dens, we used kind of cover things (tarps) string and pegs to attach it to the trees.” O

“So we sat on a sleeping bag in our den, we talked, we chattered and chattered all day and we have so much fun.” – J

“We made houses for our little buddies. With my friends we added little beds for them.” – M

“We collected leaves and sticks and we were even using some mud to stick it together to make some little houses with them.” – U

“We made a big house.” – A

Snapshot

Here is a snapshot from this week. We have been investigating Autumn leaves, acorns and conkers in the tough tray, trying to use these loose parts to make pictures and symmetrical patterns.

We used small pumpkins to work on our fine motor skills using elastic bands. This then helps use with our handwriting.

We used natural letter slices to make words as well as some of our new wooden magnetic letters.

This week a few soft toy patients arrived at our doctor’s surgery which required our doctor’s to write prescriptions for the medicine that they need so that they feel better.

Here is a photo of some of us working at the teaching table. We were carrying out a writing task related to our focus on COP26.

Plant Experiment – results

A month ago we planted broad beans. We planted one bean each and also 3 extra beans.

Bean 1 – we did not water……the bean did not grow

Bean 2 – we planted without soil……the bean started to grow a root and a shoot. It had two leaves

Bean 3 – we kept in the dark……the bean did not grow

Half of our beans did not grow, the other half grew well and this week we were able to measure how tall they were. We worked in pairs to measure the height using cubes.

We created a bar chart showing the height of each plant. The tallest plant was 29 cubes tall and the smallest was 5 cubes high.

Our plants were very fragile so we carefully took them home to continue growing.

Maths

We recently took part in Maths Week activities. This involved completing a range of tasks and challenges. Here are some photos of us busy doing maths.

We also created a noticeboard about a famous Mathematician Keith Devlin

Some snippets of our work is displayed on our classroom walls. Have a wee peak!