This week we have been learning about the value of numbers. We used the 100 square on the smart board and had to click on the correct number. If the number had 5 tens and 3 ones we would click on 53. Once we were confident in this we moved onto numbers to 1000. For this we used the place value flip chart. If the number had 3 hundreds, 4 tens and 3 ones we had to make the chart read 348. We are going to keep working on this next week.
Every Friday we work on our handwriting. We practice our letters lots of different ways – white boards, smart board, jotters and wipe clean boards. We work on our letter formation so that we do it correctly in all of our work. Later on this year we will start to join letters so really need to be writing them the correct way.
During book week we took part in lots of great activities. We received visits from several secret readers. We went to the library and got our Read, Write, Count bags and a book from the Queen. We also listened to stories and read with each other. We took part in the Book Week bookmark competition by drawing our favourite animals character from a book. It has been a brilliant week.
Something strange was in our mystery box this morning. A few of us tried to guess. Some said a number 2, which was quite a good guess. Others couldn’t find anything. After lots of discussion round what sort of shape it was, Harris worked out it was a question mark. We looked at the shape then tried to draw a few ourselves. We were allowed to draw it on our desks!! Then we thought about words that could be used at the start of a question. We wrote them on our desks too and then discussed them as a class. Next we had to think of questions we could ask, using these words.
We finished our models today in Lego Club. Great fun!
Yesterday the Lego Club met for the first time. We enjoyed working in small groups to build our model. We had to use our concentration skills to work out the instructions and find the correct pieces. Only one build was finished so the other completed models will be photographed next week. Then we get to start on a different build.
Each week we take part in lots of different Numeracy activities to help us develop our skills. We share our strategies and help each other try them out. This week in our Number of the Day task we had to work out sums with the answer 39. We came up with addition subtraction, multiplication and someone even came up with a sum involving division.
This week we were given a black dot on paper and had to use our creativity to draw a picture using it. We came up with lots of different ways.
We went to the school library to meet and read with our buddies. There are lots of brothers and sisters in the classes and it was lovely seeing them reading together. The new library has lots of space so we could all chill in our own area.
This week we have been trying hard to improve our work with money. We used games on the iPad, coins in class, a class shop and challenge cards.
I am learning the value of coins.
We are playing shops to check we can lay out the correct coins to buy something.
We are playing games on the iPad to show we know how to use coins to pay for things.
