Today we estimated and checked which item weighed more or less than 1kg.
Weight
Tag Archives: MATHS
Measuring Area
We have been learning how to measure the area of shapes by counting boxes.
Grid References
Today we created a grid that showed Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. – Heather
We used people to show direction and movement. – Sophia
We learned about compass points and looked at how the sun helped us to see which direction we were facing. – Lewis
In our grid we used letters and numbers to show the x and y axes. – Holli
Position & Movement
We have been learning about positional language and how we can use clear instructions to help us move from one place to another. We worked with a partner to use directional and positional language to instruct each other how to successfully reach another point of the playground. We had to carry out quarter turns, half turns, full turns, take forward steps and side steps. Our instructions had to be very clear as to which direction we had to take. We used language like clockwise, anti-clockwise, forward, back, to the side and stop.
It was a lot of fun!
Fraction Pancakes
We used butter and jam to create fractions on pancakes.
We used only halves and quarters.
I enjoyed making these pancakes because it helped me understand using halves and quarters. Sophia
I liked when we spread the jam and butter and cut the pancakes into halves and quarters. Karly
I really enjoyed planning what I would create on my pancake. Sian D
And the best bit was…we got to eat them when the lesson was finished!
YUUUMMMMMMYYYY!!!!
Fractions
Today we started to learn about Fractions, focusing mainly on halves and quarters. We decided we are secure in this knowledge and showed this when playing Fraction Flags, where we had to create flags with designs of halves and quarters.
Magnets
We looked at different types of magnets today and assessed their strength using paper clips.
We found the big horseshoe magnet to be the strongest, as it held 30 paperclips.
Division Challenges
We are really growing in confidence in our division work and today we used teamwork to share skills and strategies to complete the challenges.
Division
To help us understand division strategies a bit better we used sweets and used the Sharing and Grouping strategies.
Darcie – We learned how to group and share
Mia – We were able to share equally between our group
Holli – We helped each other when sharing and grouping the sweets
Naima – We learned how to divide by using sweets instead of numbers
Rachel – My group did lots of sums together
Mental Maths Tasks
We try to use lots of stimulating activities to help us with our mental maths.
