Numeracy and literacy activities

We had fun with some new literacy and numeracy activity sheets.

 We played dice addition (we threw two dice, wrote the sum and added the spots)

 We used CVC cards to make as many words as we could

 We used a flip book to make as many words as we could.

 We had addition races, which were fun too.

Numeracy games

Today our focus was on numeracy games.

Two groups focused on numbers and played Spotty Dog Game and the Game of Ladybirds.

Two other groups focused on shape, space and colour activities.

These groups played the Jack and the Beanstalk game and the Incy Wincy Spider game.

The final group focused on sorting and grouping and they played the Lunch Box game.

Each group rotated so that every student got a chance to play every game today.

We had lots of fun!

Activity time

We love Maths and English activity time. Today, for Maths activity time, we were copying pattern cards. It had to look exactly like the pattern on the card when we were finished!!. Teacher said that we were AMAZING at it!!!

We were also working in pairs, during our computer time,  on Literacy activities on the computer and I.W. We had to read a story and then work through various literacy activities based on the story. 

3D shapes

We have been learning all about different 3-D shapes in Maths, particularly cubes, cuboids, cylinders, spheres, pyramids, square pyramids, triangular pyramids, triangular prisms etc. We can count the faces, corners (or vertices), and sides of each shape and have experimented with which 3-d shapes can or can't roll. The shapes without any corners can roll easily.We also are very good at identifying different 3-d shapes in the environment.  We love playing a shape game in class, where teacher puts a selection of 3-d shapes in a bag and describes its properties (e.g. it has 6 faces and all of them are squares, 12 sides and 8 corners) and we have to guess the shape teacher is talking about. We also take turns describing a shape from the bag (which we can feel but cannot see!!!) and the rest of the class have to guess the shape. We also made some cubes using marshmallows and cocktail sticks!! We had to think carefully about the number of faces, sides and corners of a cube. 

Houses Data: My favourite kind of house

Today we talked about all sorts of different houses.

Which type of house would you most like to live in?

Here are the choices we made:

Maths activity time

We had great fun using peg boards and counting teddies to make interesting patterns!

Fun with 2D shapes

We learned all about 2-D shapes. We are able to identify squares, circles, rectangles and triangles (among other 2-D shapes ) and count the sides and corners of each shape. We know that a circle has no corners and this is why it can roll easily. We had fun putting various shapes together to make shape pictures.