Partitioning Baby Large’s Toys
For Maths Owls have been using the story they read in English of Five Minutes Peace to help them partition a whole amount using a Part-Part-Whole model. Baby Large had a 'whole' trunk full of toys. He wanted to split them with Mrs Large into 'parts'. So he parted them...
Vertices, faces and edges..
Year 2 have been full of shape vocabulary this week as they built their own 3D shape from straws and blu tack. They had to work out which shape to build with the straws they had been given. Then they had to decide which face they would build first. It was a tricky...
Playdough Part Part Whole!
This week, Robins have been working hard to understand what makes something whole and what makes something only part of a whole. To do this we got the playdough out and worked on separating it to meet different criteria. They had great fun and their understanding is...
Creating 3D Snowman Shapes in Year 2
Year 2 have been learning about 3D shapes. Today the children were given a net that they had to make into a 3D shape. It was very tricky and took a lot of patience but look at the results! Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should...
Division masters!
This week in Bluebells, we have been learning how to divide numbers in the 2,5,3 and 4 times tables. We even learnt how to work out questions where there may be remainders. Today in class, the Bluebells played a variety of division games including a board game and...
Times Tables Fun!
Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. We have had lots of times tables fun in Year 2 today. We were set times tables challenges to help us learn in a fun way. We played 'doubles bingo' (and there was a prize!), we were active and jumped up and...
Is it more than? Or less than? Or equals to in Owls?
Owls have been looking at comparing quantities of objects. They worked with their talking partners to discuss what amount was more, less or equal to. Article 1: Everyone, under 18, has the rights of the UN Convention Article 2: All children have rights. No child...
Sharing Smarties
Today Year 2 have been looking art ways to share smarties and write division calculations. We have been sharing 6, 8 and 12 smarties in different ways. Then of course we had to eat them! Yum yum! Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should...
Autumn leaves are falling!
The children spent a morning collecting autumn leaves. They sorted them, classifying them by their own criteria. They then counted them, comparing quantities. Super outdoor math-magician problem solving Dragonflies! We then used the leaves to make some beautiful...
Investigating Prime Numbers in Year 5
This morning in Maths, we used counters to investigate which numbers are prime. We tried to form arrays. This helped us to identify which numbers were prime. We used lots of fantastic mathematical vocabulary and conjecture, asking ourselves questions such as 'Can...
Comparing length and quantities
Owls continued to develop their understanding of comparing quantities. They had great fun using stem statements to describe objects that were longer than and shorter than. They then progressed to describing more than and fewer than and finally comparing objects that...
Comparing weight and length.
This week we have had lots of practical maths lessons to help our understanding of comparing weight and length. The children have worked very hard to understand the statements of longer than, shorter than, same as, heavier than, lighter than and equal to. Article 1:...