Tag Archives: Numeracy

Maths Outdoors

October 2, 2024 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

It was too sunny to do our Maths indoors today!

We have been looking at place value and how larger numbers are constructed. Each hoop represented a digit within a number. We placed the correct number of objects in each hoop to show our understanding of the value of each part of the number.

There is a lot to think about when we talk about the value of each part of a number.

How many hundreds does your number have?
How many thousands?
Why are there 3 beanbags in the first hoop?
Why is one of your hoops empty?
Can you write the number to match your hoops?
How do you say the number you have made?

Making 4 digit numbers

It was fun using the hoops for adding sums too.

Rounding numbers to the nearest 10/100/100

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Week 3

September 4, 2023 Mrs Henderson 1 Comment

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Week 3 was another busy one with lots of opportunity to work with others and be creative.

We played a variety of word building games and revised some common high frequency words. These words are used regularly in our writing, so we will work hard to learn them in many different ways.

Thank you for sending in resources to help with our Rainforest in a Box project. We started building them this week and it has been lovely to see so many creative ideas being shared amongst the class. We plan to have them ready to show parents towards the end of term.

In Maths this week we have been looking at Place Value and how to construct larger numbers. The class had fun using the Place Value blocks to build models and then work out the value of each model. It was great to hear the children sharing their thinking and supporting each other to understand. We will be moving on to comparing numbers and ordering them too. I’m sure everyone will be keen to challenge themselves with even larger numbers!

We love to hear about any achievements outside of school and this week enjoyed hearing about one P4’s success at a recent athletics competition. Well done!

Maths with Mrs Douglas

May 15, 2021 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been building on our understanding of angles – naming them, recognising them, measuring and drawing and using our knowledge to help us work out missing angles. Some pupils wrote out instructions for their peers to use to help them draw angles of different sizes. They then took on the role of teacher, supporting their classmates as they worked and offering advice when needed. The lesson was enjoyed by all and it was clear to see that some pupils had gained in confidence after working in this way. I think we have some future teachers in the class!

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Different Ways Of Learning

September 24, 2020 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

We have been talking about how, for some pupils, learning times tables comes easily, whilst for others, they are really tricky to remember and recall quickly. We looked at different learning styles today and talked about how finding a way that suits our individual learning style might just make it easier to learn these tables. Over the past two weeks, we’ve tried out various ways to see which way we prefer. We’ve also tried aural learning, chanting our tables to the clave rhythm.

Visual Learning… We made geometric circle patterns with string, moving around the numbers 0-9 to set out the times tables.

Sometimes, a diagram helps a learner find the answer.

Using materials for larger multiplication sums helps us visualise what’s happening too.

Verbal Learners… Some like to recite times tables or create words, tongue twisters and rhymes to recall the facts. Good job Eveline!

Physical Learning…Some learn by using their bodies and moving to help them learn.

We wrote out the times table we needed to learn in a hopscotch game and jumped using our bodies until we got to the right answer. Chanting the numbers helped too!

Social Learners…Some like to work with others and learn together.

We wrote out a Tic Tac Toe board and the first one to get the multiplication answer right got to put in a 0 or X. We had fun racing against each other!

Kathryn and Conor made up their own symbols!

Logical Thinkers…Like to ask questions and see the whole picture. This group were setting out the 4 times table in a way that helped them count up in 4’s.

Shopping

September 21, 2020 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

In P5/6 we have been creating a list of things we would like to use at playtime. Our budget is £60, so we need to try to find the best deal for each item on our list.

We have been learning how to navigate around shopping websites, using filters so that we can find exactly what we are looking for. We found out that it was important to check how many items were being advertised and to compare products. Some products were very cheap but the delivery charge was very high!

Ethan discovered that if he looked a little further and narrowed his search a little more, he was able to find 3 basket balls for the same price as 1 in an earlier search. Well done Ethan!

Ava and Freya thought they had found a great deal on chunky chalk with 100 pieces in the pack! It’s a good job they read the reviews as that particular product had a low rating with lots of complaints! Well done for spotting that girls!

We have noted down all of the things that we think could be bought and now we have to add it all up to check that we are within our £60 budget. Fingers crossed!

Fiona was looking for chunky chalk to use at playtime. She tried to find the best deal by looking at how many were in a pack, the price and the delivery charge.

Friday’s Activities

September 4, 2020 Mrs Smith 1 Comment

We’ve had a lovely day in P5/6! We started off working on refreshing some of our times tables by making fortune tellers and testing our friends. Then it was outside to work on our fitness in Class PE. We clocked up an amazing total of 194 laps of the multicourt as a class!! Our Accelerated Reader time was so peaceful and relaxing after our run outside. We also worked in pairs to talk about positive emotions…naming them, recognising what they look like, compiling lists of what makes us feel good and, perhaps the most difficult to describe, how our bodies feel physically when we feel good. The afternoon was spent designing our Christmas cards!! Yes…in September!

Sometimes, the most fun and memorable things to happen are the unexpected moments! Today, we were gifted a pile of tree cuttings from our nature garden for P5/6 to use in the grassy area to make dens. I was delighted to see the joy and excitement this brought to everyone and we are keeping fingers crossed for good weather next week so we can enjoy it. I also loved seeing the enthusiasm and team work bringing up the branches! 😃

We are so lucky to have amazing school grounds!

Family Game

March 25, 2020 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

We are enjoying all of the posts coming in for our poem about an Outdoor Classroom. Keep them coming!!

In the Henderson household, we have been playing lots of board games together as a family. We didn’t get a chance to complete our Maths games in class, so I challenge you to use your imaginations to create a game for your family instead! Perhaps you would like to teach someone in your family some of the French words and phrases we have been revising…?

It could be a…

board game (will you need counters, dice/spinners, cards…?)
card game
physical game (will you need music, instruction cards…?)
spelling/maths game for younger brothers or sisters

Remember you will need to include instructions too. We’d love to see examples of your games, so you are welcome to send us a photo/video to the school email address. dunrossness@shetland.gov.uk

Have fun!!

Terrific Scientific

May 1, 2018 Ms Scanlan Leave a comment

Today we completed all the last measurements of our project. We looked at all the data and tried to see if there were any patterns. Everyone found that the onions had grown most on day 8. We looked at the temperatures on that day and before and it had been warmest then. We drew graphs using Excel to compare the temperature and the rate of growth. We were surprised at how much the spring onions had grown.

Making Bread

April 26, 2018 Ms Scanlan Leave a comment

On Wednesday 25th April, while the Primary 6s were on a visit to TOTAL, the Primary 5s had fun learning about yeast and how it helps to make bread rise.

We made bread rolls and a loaf and the best thing was that we got to eat them – yum!

We also did an investigation to see how yeast produces carbon dioxide as it respires. It was fun to watch the balloons expand.