Category: Maths

Non chronological report – research

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This morning, the children in Group 3 the children used their kindles to research facts about King Charles to innovate our model text. First, the children identified that they needed to research: King Charles’ date of birth, line to the throne, why he became king and when his coronation is. The children were great, thinking about the reliability of sources (linking to their history and computing lessons). There were a few debates about how old King Charles is, so we had to complete some maths sums to work it out. We managed to work out that King Charles is 74 year old.

As a group, using the text for sentence structure support, Group 3 were able to write an innovated introduction paragraph ready for their fact file about King Charles.

Mini Teachers

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Year 6 have learned a lot this year, especially in Arithmetic. They have learned lots about addition, subtraction multiplication, and division with integers, decimals and fractions. The children should be so proud of how far they have come this year. The children have even had a go at teaching one another!

Number bonds

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5+5, 6+4, 7+3 8+2, 9+1 are number bonds to 10. In squirrels, we have been trying to remember them quickly. We’ve noticed that if we can know that 6+4=10 then when we need to do 10-6= we can say that the missing number would be 4 quickly. It can also be helpful for us adding ten numbers too. 6+4 is similar to 60+40. Little short cuts that speed up our maths.

We used the cuisenaire to help us count in 10s, make our number bonds to 10 and then for a little bit of fun create a picture of a horse with them. 🙂

Group 2 Maths

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LO: To explore properties of 2D shapes

Today in Maths, we have been looking at 2D shapes. We know the terms ‘side, vertex, vertices, 2D, 3D, flat, curved, straight’ and have been using these to compare and discuss properties of shapes and reason about what we know.

We used a Venn diagram to sort 2D shapes into two categories, right angles and quadrilateral shapes. We found it really interesting when a shape had both these properties because it had to go in the overlapping part in the Venn.

Miss Morrison was really pleased with our discussion – see some of our reasoning below.

SR: I can sort based on symmetry too, some shapes have more than 3 lines of symmetry

JR: A square has 4 lines of symmetry but a rectangle has 2, this is suprising!