Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Number stories

We started looking at number stories today.
We had a good look at the number 3.
We found all the different stories that are in the number 3:
0+3=3, 1+2=3. 2+1=3 and 3+0=3
We have lots of different things to help us figure out the stories.
 We use magnetic strips with magnets, matchsticks with hoops, counters with hoops, beads on a string, hangers and pegs, and Zak and Zelma with their sweets.
We will be talking a lot about number stories this year (especially the number story for 10)

Monday, November 3, 2014

The Planets data chart

Now that we know the names of all the planets and a little about each, teacher let us choose our favourite planet.  These are our choices.
We enjoyed talking about which planet was the most/least popular and by how much, we added groups of planets and compared those and we chatted about reasons why we made the choices that we did.

Maths trail

We took advantage of the lovely Autumn weather in October and went outside to do a maths trail. Firstly, we had to put ourselves into groups of three and decide who the leader was in each group - we are getting very good at doing this without arguing! We had to bring a book to lean on and a pencil for writing our answers on the answer sheet. Before we left the class room teacher explained all of the questions to us. We had to look for and find lots of different things such as a sign with a red and a black rectangle, a red berry, a silver car and write down its registration number. We found lots of shapes near the recycling bank. We had great fun and enjoyed working in teams.