We’ve been back exploring 3D shape this week and we enjoyed building some of our 3D shapes out of playdough and lollipop sticks. So many good discussions about the difference between rectangles and cuboids and how best to support the ‘struts’ of our structures. Is it a cone if there’s nothing supporting the base?
In our revisiting of 3D shapes and as part of our traditional tales exploration we used different shapes to make Rapunzel’s tower. We only managed to get to 15 cubes, cuboids and a cone as a whole class but one group managed 18 shapes in their later provision exploration. Lots of good discussions about rolling on curved surfaces and stacking. When comparing ‘cones’ and ‘pyramids’ it helped us to think about which one might be nicer to eat an ice cream out of!
Year 5 were treated to a very exciting, hands-on afternoon today coordinated by Mr Magnall our sustainability lead and Aqua Consultants (engineers) as part of our 18-month Royal Society biodiversity project. The children worked on 4 projects across the afternoon: building hedgehog houses, bird boxes, insect hotels and composting. There was plenty of opportunity to get involved with the power drills, hammers and saws and the children were fantastic at following instructions and working collaboratively. Who knew there was so much Maths in building… from measuring, angles, shape, depth we discussed so much throughout the afternoon.
Reception have been very busy sorting triangles and circles in their Maths lessons. The children collaborated to create this fantastic Art piece inspired by the well known artist Wassily Kandinsky.
Mrs Woodthorpe was very impressed with her Year 3 group this week who were working hard to get to grips with place value.
We loved welcoming lots of families and children in this evening to play some Maths Games with us at games night. So many smiling faces and pride when they received their certificates at the end! We played lots of games with a focus on subitising, dice patterns, number bonds, part-part-wholes and measuring. Thank you to all those who came along!
Leon has been wowing Mrs Garden in Nursery this week with the connections he has been making:
Leon and some friends were enjoying playing with the Unifix cubes and plastic rings, making up a game. They all had to place some cubes into the rings without looking, then say how many they could see.
Leon notices, ‘3 and 3 there…..6’
He sorts them into three colours.
‘Sami got the most!’ Leon then notices.
I reply, ‘Yes he has got more than you. I wonder if you can help him to count them?’
Leon quickly notices 3 and 3 then groups the other 3 cubes in the ring and says, ‘I know 9!’
I watch carefully and then ask, ‘Did you just add one more?’
‘Yep’ Leon proudly replies, ‘one more is 10….. I wanted 10!’
Amazing mathematical thinking Leon!
Well done to our fantastic Year 4 mathematicians who took part in the HFL Maths Challenge this afternoon! Lots of fantastic collaboration and making connections with our maths knowledge from class!
Some of our strongest Mathematicians have been taking part in the Year 5 and 4 HFL Maths Challenges recently. We have enjoyed getting stuck into a range of geometry, shape, estimation and calculation problems. We have also spent time working on our team-work skills and collaboration!
