Thursday, December 19, 2013

Telling the time

We are learning to tell the time.
We each had a clock of our own to help us.
We can only move the hour hands by moving the minute hands.
We are remembering to pay more attention to the little hand when we want to know what the hour is!

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Senior infant addition

We made a great data chart of our favourite Christmas things.
Look at what we love about Christmas.
We have got some new spinners in our class.
We played a great game putting counters on numbers that teacher called out, then adding numbers.
We are becoming very good at adding numbers.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The counting bus

We played a new maths game today.
Each of us had a counting bus and a bag full of passengers.
 With teacher we made stories about the passengers who got on and off the bus.
We like grouping passengers and making up stories about these passengers.
We could even remember where each passenger was sitting when it was their turn to get off the bus.
We like this new game.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

A Christmas star

We really love making shapes.
Look at the wonderful star we made with magnets today!

Monday, December 2, 2013

Marshmallow shapes

We had a very interesting lesson today.
We made lots of interesting 2D and 3D shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks.
Can you recognize these 2D shapes?
 (hint: square, triangle, pentagon, rectangle and hexagon)
and these 3D shapes?
(hint: cube, cuboid, triangular pyramid, square pyramid and triangular prism).
We tried wriggling them with our hands and found that the shapes made from triangles are much stronger than the shapes with no triangles in them.
Then when we had finished making great shapes, we had a lesson in using chopsticks (which we were learning about when we talked of China last week in Geography).
We used the chopsticks to eat up all the little marshmallows. We put the toothpicks in the bin!
Our shapes were really delicious!

Friday, November 29, 2013

Number bonds: The story of 5

We are getting really good at writing out number stories.
 We use lots of different manipulatives and our whiteboards to record our findings.
We will get lots of practice at this over the next few weeks.
 We are already very good at the story of 10.  That is because we are used to counting our golden tickets and telling teacher how many more we need to get a prize!

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Number bonds: The story of 4

Today we were learning all about making the number 4.
Teacher showed us all the ways in which we could write the story of 4.
4+0=4, 3+1=4, 2+2=4, 1+3=4, 0+4=4
Here are the things we used to help us divide up 4 things into two groups.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Maths work

We are working really hard at our maths.
Teacher has some great EDpaX Maths CDs for the whiteboard.
We work on our mini whiteboards and help teacher get all the right answers.

Monday, November 25, 2013

All about shapes

We are learning all about 2D flat shapes and  3D shapes that stick out.
We had fun playing our 2D and 3D loop game.
Do you know which shape is a sphere, a cylinder, a cube and a cuboid, a cone, a triangular pyramid, a square pyramid, a triangular prism and a hexagonal prism?  We are getting good at knowing which is which, and at guessing which shape teacher is holding when she gives us some clues.
Do you know the names of our 2D flat shapes?
We can recognize a rectangle, a semicircle, a pentagon, a diamond, a heart, a star, a square, an oval, a circle a hexagon and a triangle.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Find and count

We used another new maths game.
We really enjoyed it.
We had to find and count different things.
When we found them all we turned the card over and could check if we got all the answers right.
We were correct every time!

Hexie snaps

We got a new maths game.
It is called "Hexie Snaps" because all the pieces are hexagons.
We followed directions to make a very cool hexie snap rocket.
We are getting good at following directions.