We made some oobleck to practice our cleaning skills, we made some salt dough to work on leaning our numbers and our sharing skills. We made some Pudsey bear faces and made him an eye patch using stickers to focus on our fine motor skills.
In maths, we started to learn more about dividing. We got the concrete resources out and shared the blocks into equal groups! We really enjoyed doing this and could answer a variety of dividing questions!
We are still working hard demonstrating our knowledge of our fractions unit, with a particular focus on improving our reasoning and problem solving skills.
Before starting our money unit in maths, we had the opportunity to play with the money so we’d feel more confident recognising the coins. While working with our partner, we gave them an amount of money and they had to count how much they had. This encouraged us to count in multiples of 1,2,5,10,20 and 50 supporting our understanding of place value.
During the last week, children had the opportunity to consolidate some of their learning using Mymaths. This allowed staff to do some 1:1 time to purple pen in maths books.
To help us understand what happens to numbers when we multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000, we became a human number. We looked at columns and were introduced to the decimal point. Ellie-May was a great decimal point and took her role very seriously, making sure she didn’t move! We then looked at what would happen to our number if we multiplied or divided by 10, 100 and 1000 and how our number would move one, two or three places on our place value chart.
In maths this week we have focused on multi-step worded problems using our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills. In arithmetic we have also learnt squared and cubed numbers, order of operations and have continued consolidating long division. Keep up the great work Crew Mcloughlin! We are working so hard!
To consolidate our operation skills we participated in a carousel of activities. There were four stations: short division, long division, long multiplication and TTRS as we are still getting some questions incorrect because of our times tables knowledge!
Today in Crew MI, we enjoyed learning about roman numerals. We decided it was like trying to crack a code. We learnt that different letters meant different symbols and we had to put them in the right order to create our numbers. We then put this into practise a completed a task on my maths.
Crew Hamill have worked really hard this week to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and then 1000. We began by identifying the multiple of 10, 100 or 1000 that was before and after our number. For example, if our number was 1235, the thousand before would be 1000 and the thousand after would be 2000. We then had to decide, using a number line to support, which multiple it was closest to and therefore which number we would round it to. We then learned a rounding rhyme to help us solve this more easily:
In arithmetic, we have been learning about exchanging and how we need to exchange a ten for 10 ones when we don’t have enough to subtract. Children were encouraged to draw the tens and ones above their number so they could see what was happening when they exchange.
