After our successful afternoon of food tasting, today we looked at analysing our data! We used a tally chart to measure each pupil’s favourite food of the afternoon, then we plotted these on a bar graph. Some of us made our own bar chart (with different axis!) while some of us worked as a group and created a physical pictogram. Have a look at the graph below, are there any surprises?
Can you solve the riddle in the picture above – Something that Phase 3 tried, this week, as their Maths Word of The Week challenge.
Last week, we also had a go at finding the maths word missing from the group of words shown below: what maths word do the rest of these words help define.
Today in Maths we had an exploratory lesson. We were given Numicon and asked to sort, compare, order, talk about the numbers and what we could find out or what we knew. Some of us lined them up in ascending order, some of us grouped into less than five and more than five, some of us made 2 digit numbers and some of us spotted odd and even numbers!
We then looked at what it meant to be odd or even in numbers and how this impacted how we used them. We made the smallest even number and then the smallest odd number – we then moved on to the largest!
This week in Maths we will be focusing on securing our careful counting skills along with our number bonds and facts.
Pupils will be looking at our Big Pictures of the week and explaining in full sentences, using mathematical language what they can see. ‘In the picture I can see a vase on the window sill, with flowers inside, 3 of the flowers are pink and 3 are yellow, altogether there are 6 flowers.
Can you look at the pictures together at home and share what you see? Try to encourage speaking in full sentences along with noticing at shapes, patterns, sizes, quantities and details from the pictures.
These pictures are for both Reception and Year One pupils to investigate, maybe you can continue this activity when you are out and about? Try spotting any numbers, shapes and patterns, ‘How many oranges are in this bag? What numbers can you see on the bus or on a car license plate?’
In maths, we investigated our number system and the value of each digit in a number. We saw the importance of grouping numbers to make them easier to understand and learned how the decimal system gives us a simple way of representing the value of different digits in a number. We used a visual representation of 313 cubes to show how grouping them makes them easier to read.
Join this week’s Times Tables Rock Stars battle between Phase 3 Water and Earth – take part and see if you can help your team win this week, whilst keeping your times tables knowledge and skills up-to-date.
The competition has already started and ends at 6pm on Friday the 2nd October. If you have lost your log in details or need a new account, then please see your teacher or email them.
This is the perfect thing for a Wednesday afternoon.
A special well done to those ‘Rockstars’ listed below.
A new battle begins soon – Who will win this week? Get playing now, especially if you are at home in isolation.
If you have lost your username and password, then contact Mrs. Peyyeti (ppeyyeti@st-pauls.gloucs.sch.uk), or your class teacher.
During Maths lessons this week in Phase One we have been working on some fun skills which you can help with at home.
Reception children were looking at the ‘Five speckled frogs picture’ then telling a grown up what they can see. This encourages the pupils to speak in full sentences and use mathematical language ‘I can see 5 purple butterflies in the picture.’
Then we recapped our sorting work from last week, where pupils were asked to sort objects into groups based on various properties, some chose to sort due to its’ size or by colour. You can try sorting at home, maybe they can help to lay the table to put away the cutlery, or even help by sorting out the washing.
Lastly, we have been matching quantities, so each child at snack as one snack each, when they are laying the table for a party how many cups will they need if there are 4 children? How many plates will be needed if 6 people come for dinner?
Year Ones, have focused on securing their understanding of numbers up to 10, they have worked on doubling and halving any given number. Some children really enjoyed this and moved onto numbers to 20 and 30!
Can you try halving and doubling at home this week? Maybe you could halve and double toys, legos or even a snack!
Great work, Phase One! Keep up the lovely learning and don’t forget to take a photo and upload to Tapestry, we really enjoying seeing you apply your skills outside of the classroom.
Join this week’s Times Tables Rock Stars battle between Phase 3 Water and Earth – take part and see if you can help your team win this week, whilst keeping your times tables knowledge and skills up-to-date.
The competition starts at 5pm today and ends at 6pm on Friday the 24th of September. If you have lost your log in details or need a new account, then please see your teacher or email them.
This is the perfect thing for a Wednesday afternoon.
This week, in Phase 3, we’ve been finding out about each other – One activity saw the pupils capturing a profile of themselves on a 2-D shape net, before turning it into a 3-D cube.
The pupils set about cutting out a 2-D cube net – scissors skill were excellent! Then they covered the faces of the cube in things about themselves: words and drawings. They shared their favourites, such as food, along with there hobbies and the people they cared the most about. Once they’d finished they folded the net to form the actual cube.
Of course we could not miss the opportunity to mathematically explore the parts of a cube as well – Do you know the difference between faces, edges and vertices?
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