Blog by Tag: Maths

Today we investigated numbers in the environment and the children were able to make a number museum for 9 and 10 on their own!

This week we are looking at numbers 9 and 10.  Today we sorted lots of representations of the numbers into the correct piles.  

This week we used our fine motor skills for crushing and chopping.  We prepared vegetable sticks and combined ingredients for homemade houmous.  In the afternoon the children ventured to the big school field for a picnic of veg sticks and houmous dip!  So many children did well for trying foods…

In maths today, the children were investigating area and perimeter in compound shapes. We explored different ways to calculate the two measurements whilst also looking at ways to solve missing lengths in shapes. 

The children have had a brilliant first week back after half term and many have been fully engaged in water play this week both indoors and out.  We have a new water wall with a pump that children have been exploring and observing cause and effect.  

The children have been reading ‘Where is Bear?’ by Jonathan Bentley and learning about prepositional language. We used the story to practise moving different objects to different places - in, on, under, behind, beside and through.  

We have also been practising counting using…

Year 1-Maths-Whole Part Model

We have been learning about whole part models in Maths today. The children used tens frames and counters to show how to work out the answer. 

To begin our topic of time we all came together in the hall and we made a number line from 0 to 12 which we then transferred into a circular number line to represent a clock face. We added on the minutes numbers around the outside and talked about the purpose of the hands. We recapped over Year 1…

In Maths this week the children have been exploring shapes and building with different blocks. They recognised how ‘flat’ shapes were easier to build with and created towers, houses, robots and shops.

Today we have been working in partners to represent numbers 6, 7 and 8. Either the numeral or numicon was shown to the children showing 6, 7 or 8. They then, in partners, worked out what number was being shown and represented this on a 10s frame. 

Magnetic tiles have been a recent addition to the resources in our nursery and have been extremely popular.  It has been fascinating to observe the interactions of the children and the different strategies of exploring and creating used.  The resource only arrived last week and building progress…

Following on from our ‘Naughty Bus’ book the children were keen to make their own bus.  We found a sturdy box and the children took over, painting and creating together to get the job done!  Next for the driving and travelling.  We have also been talking about finding routes as part of our…