Our new friend number 2 needed our help! He wanted the boys and girls in nursery to help him do his food shopping but before we could, he reminded us that he only liked to buy things in twos. We had to look carefully at the food and make sure that we counted out 2 of the items he had asked for, before putting them into the shopping trolley.
We were all really supportive of each other, and we helped our friends check that they had accurately counted out 2 food items.
This week in maths, our focus has been the number 2. We started off by talking about what 2 looks like represented as spots and objects arranged as a dice pattern, different patterns and different sizes. We talked about how it was different to 1 because 1 was always by itself whereas 2 was 1 and another 1.
We used this learning to help us create a path for a little kitten who wanted to get from the red counter to the yellow counter. However, the path could only include stepping stones that showed 2! We used our subitising skills to work as a group to decide which stepping stones we could use to create a safe path for the kitten to use to get from one counter to the other.
A fantastic timestables session today that allowed some of us to become the teacher! The teacher questioned the other children on landmarks and asked each member to explain their reasons for each choice given! I was blown away by how well the children did this! Everybody is keen to have a go at becoming the teacher!
Today we continued with our measures unit, focussing on converting between M’s and KM’s. We multiplied and divided by 1000, recording in both metres, kilometres and a mixture of both. Our work hard howl blew me away today, such positive attitudes by all 🙂
Dividing by 10 and 100…
To hook into our new maths unit on multiplication and division we used mini m&ms to create equal groups and linked this to the multiplication sums. Everyone worked really hard and we were even allowed to eat the chocolate at the end!
We now have different activities that we work on daily. We move around each day looking at a different activity that will hopefully continue to improve our timestables. Our focus this week is the 9 times table. We are enjoying using the timestable stick to support us 🙂
As we have been looking at the number 1 in maths, we thought it would be fun to count to 1 and use these skills to create flapjacks!
We had to count out 1 heaped tablespoon of oats, 1 tablespoon of honey, and 1 teaspoon of butter. We mixed all the ingredients together and added to a bun case ready for Miss McGlone to put in the oven. We took them home to eat but they smelt delicious!
Yesterday we recapped the units of measure then really focussed on mm’s and cm’s. By the end of the lesson we could all use a ruler accurately to measure in both mm’s and cm’s and we could draw a variety of lines. We looked at both whole cm’s and also other increments. We checked our partners work too, giving critique where errors had been made.
In maths, we have been looking at the number 1. We know that the number 1 only likes to have 1 of everything. We know if something is 1 because it is by itself. We decided that we wanted to make the number 1 a snack – some of us decided to make 1 cupcake, whilst others decided to make 1 pizza. We also made sure that the table was set properly, with 1 knife, 1 fork, 1 cup and 1 plate. Once we had made a snack for number 1, we showed the number 1 using our fingers!
