Numeracy Week Outdoor Learning

 

This week is ‘numeracy week’ at Sound Primary School, today for outdoor learning the adults were encouraging learners to notice number and beyond number learning in the outdoors. The class enjoyed exploring and playing in the wildlife area and for our group time Mrs Sjoberg encouraged us to use ‘positional language’ – we were pointing out our right and left, sitting ‘on’ top of something, lying ‘next’ to something, going ‘under’ something, climbing ‘over’ something.

Children’s voice:

‘This puddle is making splashing sounds, and the mud is ‘squelching’. The child then told Mrs Sjoberg how to segment these words using their phonics knowledge. ‘S-P-L-A-SH’

‘This stick is longer than his stick… My stick is shorter, if I add this stick too with cellotape then it is longer than his’.

‘I am jumping in ‘muddy’ puddles, my boots have mud on them’… ‘I can spell mud, M-U-D’.

‘I feel safe because this part was slippery on the tree so I am moved to this bit.’

‘Look this tree still has – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7… leaves on it, I wonder if they will be there next week or falled off?’

‘This acorn baby looks like a ‘c’ (child then showed me the action for ‘c’ and sang the ‘c’ song).

WE LOVE OUTDOOR LEARNING! (Especially on a rainy day!)

Term 2

Primary 1A have been using paper to make ‘laptops’ and shown lots of interest in role playing ‘offices’. Luckily, we were given an old monitor and keyboard as well as two phones so pupils created an office in the classroom. Post it’s have provided lots of mark making opportunities, taking phone orders and messages and exploring the outdoor space with note making.

Mrs Sjoberg collected a huge box of conkers on holiday, we’ve been painting some, ordering by size, using them to count and some pupils chose to make numbers and phonemes using them. Lastly, we are getting quicker at ordering our human numberline and are so good at communicating with each other whilst supporting each other to get into the correct order.

So happy to see the pupils back in class after the holidays and so engaged in their play.


Number in Primary 1

Number and maths learning in Primary 1 takes many forms. We love exploring mathematical concepts in the outdoor space such as speed and distance using our loose parts, using different items to transport sand whist learning about capacity.

Inside we’ve been enjoying exploring our problem solving skills through puzzles and our loose parts and block play. Some of the photos below include number board games, number recognition and forming numbers in sand as well as exploring shapes and colour on our lightbox. We have completed 1-5 in our number study using the numberblocks as well as exploring songs and rhymes daily that include numbers.

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