Our new topic is measurement. Today, we had some time measuring things around the classroom- Miss Winskill's bump now requires two tape measures!
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Maths
Fractions Pizza Party
We had a pizza party today, which involved looking at different pizza shapes and investigating if they could be halved and how many ways we could half them. We also recognised that 2 quarters is equivalent to one half.
Shapes
We have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes in Maths. We have enjoyed working practically throughout the unit by taking part in a shape hunt, then using lolly sticks and string to help us count sides and vertices of 2D shapes. We have used mirrors to find out if...
Nursery Rhyme Week
The children in Early Years took part in World Nursery Rhyme week, each day the children learnt a new nursery rhyme and performed them for their parents. Monday: The Big Ship Sails. The children created their own big ship when we went to Forest school using the...
Division
This week in Maths, we have been learning about division in. We know that to divide means to share into equal groups. We started by dividing bean bags into 2 equal groups and we recognised that this was the same as halving. We then went on to divide counters into 5...
Spooky goings on….
There has been some very spooky things happening in nursery this week. The children have learn all about Halloween and why it is celebrated, and enjoyed dressing up for Halloween and pretending to go 'trick or treating', collecting different objects in the Halloween...
Creating Patterns
In Nursery we have been looking at repeating patterns and used our autumn objects to recreate different patterns.
Venn Diagrams in Maths
We are working on statistics in maths at the moment. We have been making our own Venn diagrams to sort data we were given. We also had a go at gathering our own data and decided how we would sort it effectively.
Partitioning numbers
We have been focussing on place value in our Maths lessons. We know that to partition numbers means to split into smaller parts. Today we looked at how many different ways we could partition a two-digit number. We enjoyed using the base 10 and moving the tens over.
Making numbers
Today we have been focussing on place value, looking at how many tens and ones are in different numbers. We enjoyed physically moving the dienes across the board.