Today we visited a different area of the woods and I again asked the children to measure the learning area. This time I encouraged each group to think of the space as a composite shape – rectangles and triangles etc. Some groups drew very complicated shapes and I helped them to re-draw them to make the calculations easier.

There seemed to be more silly behaviour today and I suspect that is because we were repeating / building on an activity we had already done. Perhaps something to avoid. I was very pleased with the maths though.

In the end I asked the groups to find the tree with the biggest circumference / girth. There wasn’t enough string for everyone so I asked them to ‘bring their measurement back’. The children came back with arms outstretched and hands joined etc.