Mathematics

Learning About Money

This week we have started to learn all about money.

Primary 1 have been exploring money. We played a game called magic land if we landed on a magic wand we had to spin the spinner and choose the correct coin. Another game that we enjoyed was Market Street. We had to buy things with money from our purse and sometimes the shop keeper had to give us change.

Primary 2 have been learning how to put money into the right order. We learned that the £2 is the biggest coin that we can use and the 1p coin is the smallest. We created our own poster to teach someone about the order of the coins. We played a game called journey across. We had to move across the money board landing on higher or lower coins.

Benjamin – I enjoyed counting all of my pennies.

Daniel – I liked making our posters to show the order of the coins.

Jason – I liked our journey across game.

Klea – My favourite thing this week was playing with the money in the till.

Big Maths

We are all working hard with our big maths. P2 are working on reading 3 digit multiples of 100 and are doing really well. We enjoyed working on the smart board to find the correct multiple of 100. We know that the first number tells us how many hundreds there are.

Symmetry

This week we have started to learn about symmetry. We found out that butterflies are symmetrical and so are our faces. For something to be symmetrical there needs to be the same on both sides. Ewan explained that if you draw a line down a face there would be half a mouth, half a nose and one eye on both sides.

Today we worked in pairs. We designed one half of a butterfly and then our partner had to try to complete the other side to make the butterfly symmetrical.

Caiden – I know that a circle is symmetrical.

Ryan – I know that a snowball is symmetrical.

Benjamin – Doing the symmetrical pictures was fun.

Rhys – The butterfly activity was fun because I got to work with Caiden.

We are looking forward to making some symmetrical Christmas decorations for our classroom.

Scottish Book Awards Week 2!

This week we have been looking at a book called Robot Rumpus and we think it is super funny. One of our tasks was to design our own robot to help around the house. This book was a rhyming book and we became word detectives to find set of rhyming words. Some of us created robots for our homework task using 3D shapes from home and shared these with the class.

Ewan – I like the story because it is funny when the Mum and Dad screamed.

Dionne – It was tricky to write a book review about our favourite part because so many bits of the book are funny.

Niamh – I think Robot Rumpus is great fun.

Our Class Post Office

On Tuesday we worked as a whole class to create our very own post office in our classroom. P1/2 are going to to be Chryston Primary’s Christmas Posties. We will be sorting and delivering all of the Christmas Cards to the classes this year. We made signs for our post office. We decorated our Christmas post box. We sorted out a special basket for each class. We wrapped lots of parcels. We noticed that all of the parcels were different kinds of 3D shapes.

Caiden – I liked decorating the post post.

Lewis – I think all the children worked hard to make our post office.

Conor – I liked wrapping the presents and choosing a bow for mine.

Niamh – I liked puting the wrapping paper on the parcel. It was easy because Jason helped me.