Mathematics
10’s and 1’s
Children have been counting in 10’s and 1’s to find the total. We were able to switch from counting in 10’s to 1’s after some practise! Please comment below and we will look at them in class.
Mathematics
Maths Carousel
What a fantastic day Year 5. You have been an amazing help today, showing how responsible and mature you are. Excellent explanations and help have been given to children in KS1 and 2 about how best to solve mathematical problems. Your own attempts at problem solving have also impressed me. Read more…
Mathematics
Maths Carousel
Year 1 worked very hard in the hall this morning with help from the Year 5 children to complete the activities from the Maths Carousel. We had lots of fun working with our partners to work out the answers to the puzzles. Thank you to Year 5 for organising it!
Mathematics
Time
This week we have been learning about time. We found it a little bit tricky at first but now we know the features of a clock and we can also tell the o’clock time. We have been discussing what we do at different times of the day and how long Read more…
Mathematics
Fantastic fraction work!
We have been working very hard in maths finding out about equivalent fractions using fraction walls, Cuisinare Rods and Tarsia puzzles.
Mathematics
Sunny division
Year 4 took advantage of the beautiful sunshine today but practicing dividing by 10 and 100 outside. They really enjoyed moving the numbers and counters to the correct columns.
Mathematics
Fractions Tarsia
We have been looking at finding fractions of amounts! We worked very hard to complete a fractions Tarsia puzzle!
Growth Mind-set
Fraction fun
We have been working really hard this week with fractions. We then played a tarsia game to work out 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 1/4, 2/4 and 3/4’s of a number.
Mathematics
Weight
Last week in Bluebells, we have been learning about weight. We have been discussing and testing which objects are heavy and light. After comparing lots of objects, we decided to use balancing scales to compare them. We were all really good at using scales and used the skills we had Read more…
Mathematics
Cake making
Ths week we have been learning about weight. For our snack yesterday we made cakes using the balance scales. The children had to balance all of the ingredients with the eggs. We talked about the importance of weighing ingredients and following a recipe and we used lots of language related Read more…