Gingerbread house maths

Teacher received a gorgeous Gingerbread cake from Sticky Bakes café in Oranmore when they heard that we will be doing a play about Hansel and Gretel.

Imagine our surprise when we saw it for the first time!

After looking at it and admiring it for a while, we began to examine it more closely.

We found rectangular roof tiles and circular walls.

We found triangles, and patterns in the buttons and jelly tots.

We noticed that the door was a gingerbread rectangle and that the snowman was made from spheres, and was standing beside jelly beans that were in the shape of ovals.

We think that the chimney is a cylinder or perhaps a cube.

Santa had even visited the gingerbread house and he had brought presents with him.  We wondered what could be inside the cube and cuboid shaped presents?

We could even spot a few cone shaped bushes beside Santa.

This gingerbread house IS AMAZING!

Thank you so much Sticky Bakes.

Keep an eye out for all the learning we will do based on the story of Hansel and Gretel and based on the gingerbread house which you gave to us.

Matching numbers to numerals game

 We had fun matching numbers to numerals.

We  raced each other to be the first group to finish.

We enjoyed working together and helping each other. 

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!

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.

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.

A Christmas star

We really love making shapes.

Look at the wonderful star we made with magnets today!

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!