Concrete Maths To Launch A New Unit!

We have been busy in our concrete maths session using sticks to build numbers as part of our Multiplication and Division unit. To kickstart this unit, pupils used sticks in bundles of 12 to make equal groups. They drew upon their shape learning to make equal groups too. We then had a gallery walk to see the different representations and orientations before making ‘unequal groups’. What a brilliant day of hands on Maths!

Changing States Experiment

Today we conducted an experiment to see what would happen to chocolate when we applied heat.

We put 3 pieces of chocolate in a metal bowl inside a bowl filled with hot water.

To begin with the chocolate was solid.

We timed in 1 minute intervals and observed and recorded what happened to the chocolate.

After 4 minutes the chocolate was completely melted and was a liquid.

We put the chocolate back in the fridge for half an hour to see if it would change state again.

After 30 minutes it was a solid again!

Sausage Sandwich

Today in life skills the children made their own sausage sandwich. Once the sausages were cooked .They had to butter their breadcake , cut their sausages in half and then put it on their breadcake before they could eat them.