We have been practising time today outside in the lovely weather. We have been looking at 5 minute intervals and have been playing lots of games to help us. Throughout the day Mrs Graham has been asking us what the time is. We are becoming very confident now.
This week in our maths we have been looking at spatial awareness using language such as in, on, up, down, under and behind. We explored spacial awareness using toys in our class and used a dolls house to explain which rooms we could see and how we knew. We got Read more…
This week we have been learning about, ‘The Gingerbread Man’. At the beginning of the week, we listened to the story and practised retelling it in our own way. We then went outside and created our own gingerbread person. We asked a friend to draw around our bodies and then Read more…
The children have been learning how to divide by 10 and 100 today in Maple. We made a ‘human’ place value chart, and discussed what was happening as the numbers were divided.
This afternoon, we decided to get out of the classroom and into the fresh air to do some problem solving revision on what we have learnt so far in year 5. We worked in pairs to solve a number of multi-step addition, subtraction, number and place value problems. Each answer Read more…
Today in maths, Oaks practised numbers to 20 – counting objects, matching amounts of objects to number cards, filling in missing numbers on a number line, identifying numbers in ten frames, and finding one more/one less by matching parts of rockets! The children worked really well in their teams to Read more…
We worked hard to follow the directions on the treasure map. We had to follow directional language like forwards, backwards, left and right.
Oaks have been super busy in maths this week! First, we learnt about weight – using balance scales to compare different classroom objects to see which was heavier and which was lighter. Next, we learnt about capacity. We used different types of containers and used water to show full, half full, Read more…
Today we began to learn about measure in our maths lesson. We used multilink cubes and had a competition to see who could make the longest caterpillar. One of our caterpillars was more than 30 cubes long! Then, we lined all of our caterpillars up in order from shortest to longest and compared them Read more…
Maple have been learning about different types of lines in Maths today. We have been using strips of paper to make parallel lines, horizontal, vertical and perpendicular lines. We are now going to use our learning to describe properties of shape.