Well done everyone. You are all stars. I am very very proud of you all.

We used these at Goldentime today and some children want to try more at home.

https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/Christmas

Choose Christmas printables.

https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/printable-christmas-crafts

We made 3D snowmen and baubles. We decorated the room in the picture ready for Christmas.

Adam and I have been trying out some different methods of multiplying big numbers. We tried the gelosia grid method and drawing lines. Both of these worked amazingly well. We enjoyed investigating these ways of multiplying.

by Jay

10 times table problems made up by P3   12.12. 16

In Paris there are 10 motor bikes. There are 2 people on each one. How many people altogether?

There were 10 boxes of teddy bears. There were 5 teddy bears in each box. How many teddy bears altogether?

There are 10 cages. In each cage there are 9 rabbits. How many rabbits are there altogether?

There are 10 presents. There are 200 Darth Vaders in each present. How many Darth Vaders altogether?

There were 10 Christmas trees with 5 presents under each one. How many presents altogether?

There were 10 Santas and they delivered 6 presents each. How many presents did they deliver altogether?

There are 10 presents and in each present there are 10 chocolate Santas. How many Santas altogether?

There are 10 presents in each present there are 8 tiny reindeer. How many reindeer altogether?

There are 10 reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh. Santa gave each one

• 4 carrots
• 2 bells
• 3 apples
• 1 nametag

How many of each did Santa need?

How do you use a small traffic light drawing at the end of a piece of work? What does it help you to do? Are you finding this useful? Why/why not?

What do you do when your learning is challenging?

Today we made cute snowmen decorations to sell at the Christmas Fair tomorrow. Each one is unique. We had help from Miss McLean and Mrs Pyatt, two volunteers who work with us every Monday. Our delightful snowmen are a bargain at the price of 50p each.

More beautiful circlets to wear as we role play being ancient Egyptians. What did they wear? What did they do all day?

Jay has been finding out about Napier’s Bones. John Napier was a famous Scottish Mathematician and he made strips out of bone, which he wrote numbers on, to use to work out multiplication. Jay made a set of his own out of card and can use them to quickly do multiplying sums like 236 345 x 4.

Look at the photos to see what sum he did.

It’s fascinating!

Jay spotted the pattern he used to write the numbers on each “bone.” Can you see the order John Napier used?

Look carefully at the photos. One is a good mistake to learn from; count carefully!

P3 have been learning the 4x table and P4 have been learning the 8 times table. We have spotted that many of the answers in the 8 times table are also in the 2 times table and the four times table. We have been making arrays with these times tables.

What helps you to learn your times tables?