On Wednesday 6th March we celebrated World Maths Day in school. Key Stage One and Two children were able to log on to the World Games website and had lots of fun competing against children from around the World. We had tangrams, cookery and puzzles throughout the day.
A fun time was definitely had by all. You could say…mathstastic!
Watch this space to find out who the Nook’s top scorers were from World Games…
This week in Elms we have done a lot of exiting things!
When Mrs Liddle comes into the Elms she teaches fun things! Last week we made diva lamps, and this week we painted our diva lamps and finished our Rangoli patterns. Last but not least we made Diwali cards for our family; we went on the laptops to make them.
In Literacy, for some of us there is a new way of teaching writing called Read Write Inc. The rest of us imagined that we lived in a cave and then had to describe. We went outside to help us with our work.
Maths, we did perimeter, which is the distance around the outside of something. We used a ruler to measure the outside of a shape then we had to add it up and see what the total was.
During ‘All Around the World Week’ we learned about Kenya. We have learnt lots of facts e.g. Kenya only has two seasons, one rainy season and one dry season. The capital of Kenya is Nairobi.
On Wednesday some of the parents came in and helped us, and joined in, we had fun! We did some food tasting, the fruit was lovely.
We were supposed to play Lingey House and Kells Lane at football, but it was called off because of the rain.
In Elms this week we have done many fun things. In maths we have solved money problems using calculators to find our change.
R.E., Mrs Liddle comes into the Elms to learn us about Hinduism and also Diwali. We made Diva lamps and rangoli patterns.
In Literacy we learned about connectives and then we wrote an assessment on a spooky house.
Some of the Elms play for the School Football Team. On Thursday we played against two teams, the first one against Colgate and the second against Oakfield. We won both games and the first one we won 2-1 against oakfield after that we played colgate we won 1-0 with a cracking free kick off Morgan Mulgrew, he’s an Oak, but that’s ok though.
This week the Owls have been learning how to add Ty numbers.
In our maths lessons we have been learning how to partition 2 digit numbers to help us add. Partition just means split the 2 digits to find out the value of each one. We have used place value cards and games to help us with our learning.
In Maths we have been looking at perimeter and area. We decided to take our skills outside of the classroom and calculated the area of the decking which surrounds our pond. We even managed to spot a few frogs and spawn!
The apple is right! Times Table practice is good for you. Why not click on the link below and try it for yourself. Let us know what you think by leaving a comment.
http://www.transum.org/Software/Tablesmaster/Tablesmaster.asp
Click on the link below to access the ‘Geoboard’ for today’s lesson.
Enjoy.
LOOK AT THIS!!!
Not only did Tony work really hard at Nooklings to create this FANTASTIC alien but he could count its three eyes and wait for it… the TWELVE chunks of hair!
Mathematician or what?
Why not try out these activities. Class 9 have been working through them today and they highly recommend them.
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http://www.ictgames.com/weight.html
http://www.channel4learning.com/sites/puzzlemaths/pinpoint_game.shtml
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy-shape-and-weight.html#scales3
Spread the joy!
Click on the word document below and either down load to your computer or print off for yourself.
maths vocabulary revision materials.doc
There are also some SATs revision questions as well. Feel free to down load and try or why why not challenge a member of your family.
Measures L4.rtf
Measures L5.rtf
Remember you have the option to download this homework task, complete it and e-mail it back to me at windynookprimary@gmail.com.
Garlic Bread – it’s the future!
Remeber to have a look now, giving yourself a chance to ask about anything you are unsure of before the weekend. As always I have paper copies too.
Have fun!
Here are some of the questions that we looked at in class. If you did not get a paper copy you can download them.
Have fun and let me know what you think of them. Remember the word ‘easy’ is banned in Class 9.
When I went to scho
ol (which was nearly as long ago as Mr.Firth) I never had games to help me learn fractions. So especially for all of you in Class 9, here are a couple of games to help you. You never know somene might get close to 9 seconds!
Mrs.Green, brackets for additional information. What do you think?
Click on the links below.
Click on the ’pdf’ file to access your homework.
Complete the tasks set for you on ‘Mathletics’