Our new topic in Mathematics is time. To begin with we recapped our knowledge of sequencing the day to night and o’clock. We had to sequence a variety of cards which had different times of the day. When then used these cards in Drama, we had to act out the different times of the day in our groups and our peers had to guess what time it was. We really enjoy drama.
To continue our time topic we played different educational time games to revise our knowledge of o’clock. We really enjoy playing this board game where the times are in both analogue and digital. To further our understanding of o’clock we have learnt about digital time which is on the hour and the difference between am and pm. We wrote the times round the big clock on the whiteboard.
On Thursday we learnt about half past the hour. We really enjoyed being the teacher at one of our stations. The “teacher” read out a time card in words (half past 6) and the other children in the group then had to find the time on their number fans. The teacher chose someone to come and write the hands on the whiteboard. We recorded our learning by taking photographs of the different times with the ipads. Miss Boyes was then able to check our photographs to make sure all of our time were half past the hour.
To begin our plenary we used our spinning wheel and Paolo the parrot to check our understanding then we took our learning outdoors since the sun was shining. We used the dotted circle in the playground as a clock to show Miss Boyes that we had learnt how to set the time to half past the hour. It is great fun learning outdoors.
We played some very good time games and Miss Boyes has included these in our homework next week.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=matchingpairstimev3
In literacy we have been developing our knowledge and ability to read our sight words. We played a game where we read a word to our partner and they had to identify it on the table. The words have the vowel house icons to help us identify the sounds.
Our new topic is “People Who Help Us”. As always we started our topic by making a class plan. We then completed a reading task where we had to read the passage and guess who the person was. Once we had guessed correctly we drew a picture of them.
Our structured play has been updated to meet our new topic, we had great fun learning through play with our friends in P2M.
We are looking forward to our trip on Monday to the library to learn about the job of a librarian and to learn how to find the books.
Have a lovely weekend from Miss Boyes and P2B!
What a great idea for the coloured dots – a giant outdoor clock!
I loved visiting your classroom this week P2B and seeing you work hard on o’clock and half past. You are a very enthusiastic bunch of learners and each one of you tries their very best.
#welovelearning!