In numeracy this week we completed our division check up to show Miss Boyes how much we understand the concept of division. We moved on to learning how to estimate.
Rachel- “The first thing you do is take a guess at how many you think there are and then you count to find out how many there actually are.”
We estimated how many cubes were on the desk.
Seamus- “It helps to think about the amount of cubes there were before and think about does it look more or less this time.”
We also learnt more about estimating by playing this game-
http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Estimate-and-Count-Marbles-402
Also this week we learnt how to round to the nearest 5 and the nearest 10. We played a game on the smart board.
Katherine- “The game showed a number and asked you to round it to the nearest 10. ”
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=DartboardRoundingv2
This week we went on a visit to the Health Centre. A lady showed us around the different areas: reception, doctor’s room, health education room, nurse’s room and waiting room. We got to see all of the files for all of the 10,500 patients. It was very interesting to be able to look at the equipment. Here is a list of the equipment we saw: “blood pressure machine, Stethoscope, the temperature gauge, sharps box and the doctor’s bag.
The lady at the Health Centre was super impressed by our behaviour and amazing knowledge so she gave us a certificate.
She also asked us to write about our trip to the Health Centre. Therefore this was our stimulus in writing this week. We gave an account of what happened and we had to use different openers.
At the beginning of the week we went on a trip to the library. We were super quick at returning our books and taking out new books because we know how to do it now.
In the sun shine we went outside for PE and practised racing around the track. We completed our races in our houses and the winners then raced against one another. The most important part is that we all gave 100% effort!
Have a lovely weekend, from Miss Boyes and P2B!
