A Trip to the Cafe…
This morning in Tulips we have been using our money knowledge to calculate prices at the Windy Nook Cafe. We have added amounts of money together to find our total spend. Then we had to use subtraction to find our change from £20. We have enjoyed using our knowledge...
Owls investigate weight
Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can. This week in Maths Owls have been looking at weight. They have been using bucket scales to compare weight looking at objects that are he...
Shape hunt!
Nursery were amazing at finding shapes in the environment today! They used some fantastic language to explain how they knew what each shape was. For example, "Its a circle because its got one curved side!" and "Circles don't have any vertices!" Article 28: You have...
Norman the Numicon Robot
The children have enjoyed exploring making amounts in different ways. Norman the numicon robot helped is think the process through. Many of the children were able to explore lots of different ways of making the same amount. They children were able to explain their...
Owls use non-standard units to measure
Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go...
What’s the time Bluebells?
This week in Maths, the Bluebells have been learning to tell and write the time. They have used clocks and interactive resources on the whiteboard to help them remember what each of the numbers represent. We have found it a bit tricky but the Bluebells showed some...
Practical Partitioning
Oaks and Elms have been working on the place value of decimals this week and have found partitioning them in different ways a bit tricky so today we got the place value counters out and worked on physically exchanging tenths, hundredths and thousandths to make the...
Representing numbers in Owls
Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can. This week in Maths Owls have been working up to 50 with counting and representing. The children looked at how numbers were made up of...
Supermovers!
In Tulips we have been working hard, learning and practicing our times tables. One of our favourite ways to practice our times tables is using the Supermovers videos. During the videos we practice our times tables and we get to jump and dance around. Here are a few...
Finding properties of a 3D shape
Article 12: you have the right to an opinion and to be listened to. Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people. Article 28: You have...
Part part whole – buttons on a snowman
The children worked in small groups to work out all of the different ways that the buttons could be arranged on the snowman. We investigated all possibilities. Lots of the children were methodical in their approach to working out different possibilities. Article 28:...
Owls match 3D shapes
Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people. Article 17: You have the right to get information that is important to your well-being,...