Day: September 30, 2022

Primary 1 – Maths Week

It’s been Maths Week and Primary 1 were lucky to have 2 visitors in class to talk about how they use numbers in their jobs.

We also took part in a different outdoor numeracy activity every afternoon.  We made paper plate pictures and counted or ordered all the items we found and used to make our pictures.  We had lots of balls to count!  We had to try different strategies because it was difficult to count so many and they kept moving!  We had a number trail, to count and show numbers in a ten frame.  We even tried to count bubbles.

It was great to meet and talk to so many parents this week.  Seesaw activities have now started with a revision of our first set of phonics, enjoy!  New activities will be added on Mondays (unless it’s a holiday).

Learning in P2/1

This week has been maths week.

P2/1 were lucky to have three visitors!
Abby’s Mum is the owner of Abby J cakes and she told us how she uses maths in her job.
We had great fun learning about using money to buy the ingredients to make a cake, counting the ingredients into the bowl, turning the oven on, and lastly, making sure we shared the cake equally with all our friends! We came up with some fantastic flavours too!


Nola’s Mum worked as an environmental scientist. She told us all about ‘data’ and the numbers she looked at to make sure the water was clean. We loved her diagram to show how it worked and used our mental maths to see if our water would pass the test! If our number was too big, then the water wasn’t clean enough. We had good fun playing the game.

Norma visited us from the library. She told us how she used numbers in her work-spending money for the library and telling the time. We loved the story she read to us too.

We have had lots of fun learning maths outside. We learned about counting items and showing the numbers in different ways. Our favourite was the maths trail. We worked with partners to find the clues.

 

Maths week in Primary 2

This week was maths week.

Primary 2 engaged in a number of different activities. This included an outdoor maths trail, maths through stories and welcoming visitors to tell us all about their jobs and how they use maths in everyday life.

Maths through stories developed our knowledge of 3D shapes. We drew and built 3D models. We enjoyed our outdoor maths trail and worked together, using 10 frames to record our answers. The visitors inspired us to write about a job that we would like to do in the future and we thought about the maths skills that we would need.

We used our problem solving, teamwork and  communication skills.
Well done P2!

‘The Perfect Fit’

It’s Maths Week! So in Drama this week we listened to ‘The Perfect Fit’  by Naomi and James Jones. We really enjoyed the story and used our bodies to try and make different shapes.

Poor Triangle tries hard to fit in with the other shapes but she  knows  they are not the same. She is searching for a group where she fits in perfectly.

We explored shape, patterns and tiling using lots of different objects.. counters, cubes, dice, pebbles, pompoms and even real tiles!

The story helped us learn about shapes but also about how we are all different and the importance of  being included.

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