Friday, December 12th, 2008We are busy making the story of 10. We use hangers and pegs, beads, magnetic children and blocks, links and hoops and counters to help us. We are getting very good at this activity.

Matching numerals, words and spots

Maths gamesFriday, 14th November, 2008
Could you match each numeral with the correct number of spots and with its proper word? We did this today in groups and each group had a race. It was fun!

Maths - Learning about shapes

2D and 3D shapes activities

We have been learning a lot about 2D shapes: squares, circles, rectangles, triangles, ovals and hexagons and 3D shapes: cubes, cuboids, spheres, cylinders, triangular prisms, pyramids and cones.
Here are some of the activities we play at Maths time to help us find out more about the shapes. We play with logic attribute blocks, Make "n" break game, tangrams, guess the 3D shape and the shapes loop game.
When we have free play time in the morning we like making shapes from some of the other activities too.

Number games for Senior Infants

In Room 5 we are playing lots of number games. We play games that use a die like the Spotty Dog game, the Ladybird game and snakes and ladders. We also play a "more than" card game and a fish bingo game (that uses fish instead of a die). We play these games during Maths Activity time. We learn lots about numbers when we play these games.

Halloween Maths

Today in Room 5 we had a long chat about things we think about when we talk of Halloween. We each had to choose the Halloween thing we like best. We made a chart of our favourite Halloween things, and we talked about which group had the most/least/how many more or less did each group had. Our chart looks great.

In Room 5 we are learning about numbers. We have lots of great number activities. Today we played hopscotch (saying the number as we jumped), dominoes, comparison dominoes-the highest domino each time wins, comparison cards-highest card each time wins, and the tree game. Each group will get a different activity each day.

Number Fans in Room 5

We use number fans in our class. They look like this: We can play games with them, hiding then showing the number before/after/between numbers. It is a lot of fun.

Counting stick

Senior Infants, Room 5
Tuesday, September 16th 2008.
We have a counting stick in our classroom. We use it for saying all our numbers and figuring out which number comes where on the stick. We even have challenges where teacher points to the stick and we have to call out the number she is on.

Human Number Line

Senior Infants, Room 5
Tuesday, September 16th,2008.
We have digit cards with the numbers 0 to 9 written on them. We made them into a human number line, and then we practised keeping the line in order and swapping numbers that were "before" and "after" each number. It was great fun.

Maths: Data

Senior Infants, Room 5
Yesterday, September 15th, teacher read us the story of "The Smartest Giant in Town". Today we did some voting. Each of us had to choose who we thought deserved the giant's clothes the most - maybe the giraffe because he might catch a cold with no scarf, maybe the goat who had no sail for his boat, maybe the mouse who had no home for herself and her children, maybe the fox who had no sleeping bag, or maybe the dog who was stuck in the bog. It was a very fair vote, and we made a chart of our results.

Shapes Loop game

Thursday, 11th September.
Senior Infants, Room 5.
We talked a lot today about shapes and colours. We learned about circles, squares, rectangles, triangles and hexagons. Hexagons have 6 sides and are very hard to draw. When we knew the names of the shapes we played a great loop game. It took us 4 minutes and 29 seconds to finish. We will get much faster as we practise more.

Maths activities in Senior Infants, Room 5

Maths Activities
Monday, 8th September
Last week in our Maths activities we sorted all sorts of groups according to colours. We used bottle tops, counters, links, sorting basket and links.2008


This week our activities are different, even though we are using some of the same things. This week we are looking at colours and patterns in Maths. We use pegs, counters, links, pattern blocks and beads to follow patterns. It is fun. We can make our patterns even longer than teachers!

Sorting Bottle Tops

Sorting Bottle Tops
Wednesday, 7th May, 2008
Teacher has a collection of bottle tops. We sorted them according to colour, into a big set and a small set, into flip or twist lids, into different types of lids, and into thick and thin lids. It was really interesting.

Logic Attribute Block Dominoes

Logic Blocks
Tuesday, 29th April, 2008
We laid out the attribute logic blocks on the floor. We played a kind of Domino game with them.
We could change only one thing from the piece before…..either size, shape, colour or thickness.
This is what our finished domino looked like.

Bugs and Insects: Sorting and Classifying

Bugs and Insects

Friday, 4th April, 2008

We had a great talk about bugs and insects.

We found out that insects have only 6 legs.

Now we know whether a bug is an insect or not.

We decided to sort out our box of bugs.

We put the insects in one group and the other bugs in the other group.Then we sorted all our bugs according to colour…..
...whether they have wings or not…..…..whether they eat grass or other insects/animals...….whether they have one colour or more than one colour...

It was very interesting.

Making 3D shapes

3D Shapes, Monday, 18th February, 2008
We made 3D shapes from matchsticks and blue tack.
Can you see our cube, our triangular pyramid and our square pyramid?

The pyramids were both stronger than the cube when teacher pushed down on them with her hand.

We made the same shapes with magnetic shapes (rods and spheres).

We tried making the shapes with marshmallows too. That was fun but very messy. Marshmallows are so sticky!