This week we have been celebrating Maths Week at Oakburn Nursery. The theme this year has been maths through stories and we have focused on money, pattern and shape.
Malleable
In the malleable area we were looking at patterns, the children used the spaghetti and beads to make their own patterns. While creating their pattern they were also developing their fine motor skills by threading the Bead onto the spaghetti. Following on from this the children created their own pattern paper chains, they designed their own paper strips and then linked them together to make their pattern chain.
we then used different coloured playdough to make patterns. The children were able to look at the beginning of the patterns and identify which colours came next .
Outdoors
The children were focusing on shape this week in the garden for Maths week. To relate to the story “The Perfect Fit”, the children used the shape stencils, searching the garden for shapes that “fit” and “matched” the shape drawings.
Gross Motor Area
The children took part in number yoga on the smart board where they had to move their bodies to make themselves look like each number.
Home Corner / Fine motor Area
In the home corner the children helped to create a shop. The children helped to collect and price up items to sell in the shop. They demonstrated great role play as they pretended to be the shop keeper, using the till and exploring the money by giving customers change and placing the money in the till.
At the fine motor table we used magnifying glasses and paint brushes for the children to explore the shape and colour of the money
Snack Area
In the snack area we focused on pattern for numeracy week. The children demonstrated good control of their fine motor skills when cutting the peppers. The children practised colour recognition, pattern and ordering. The children demonstrated 1;2;3 step patterns through the use of the different coloured peppers.
Courtyard
During Maths week the focus in the courtyard cosy area was data handling. The children wanted to find out how everyone got to nursery, whether it was by walking, by the car, bike or scooter. To do this we made charts to ask questions, gather information and then display this data in different ways. We used tally marks and also made a bar chart. The children found out that most people travel by car , some people walk but only one person comes to nursery by train.
Small World Area
in the small world area we have been exploring the story “Simon sock” the children were able to use their fine motor skills to peg the socks into pairs on the washing line – matching the patterns together.
STEM area
in the STEM area we have been exploring origami. We talked about the different shapes we made as we folded the paper into triangle and squares. We made some cool animals!
