Counting stick and human number line: Senior Infants

In Maths we have a counting stick that we use to practicing saying our numbers between 0 and 10. Each number has its place on the stick, and we say the number as teacher points to the stick. Then we take it in turns to be the teacher with the counting stick. We also have plastic numbers that teacher gives out and we have to arrange ourselves into a human number line. Then teacher asks other children to find numbers in the number line and when we find it we take the number off the person holding it and they sit down. We can also find numbers before or after a number or even a number between two numbers. We love using the counting sticks and human number line!

Maths trail-Maths Week, Senior Infants

We went on a Maths Trail for Maths week. We had to count trees, look at the colour of the lines on the road, look for berries, seeds, pick a leaf and look for shapes, square, circle, diamond, star, and rectangle. We recorded our findings. It was great fun!

Maths activities, Senior Infants

We have been doing some Maths Activities to help us learn our numbers. We used counting trays and put the correct amount of cubes into each section of the tray. We swapped trays so we could do it again and again. We all know our numbers now!

Matching and counting, Junior Infants

 

 Today we tried out some new maths games. We matched colour and shape, directions, objects and numbers,pairs of identical objects. We all shared the games and each had a turn at matching different things. 

Halloween Data

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Today we had a chat about what are our favourite Hallowe'en things.  Then we each chose a picture of our favourite Hallowe'en thing.  We made a data chart of this and we chatted about how many in each group, which group had the most/least.  We counted each group.  Even teachers who popped into our class got a chance to tell us what they liked.  We are getting very good at the language of Maths, counting, adding, comparing.  Our chart looks great too!

Maths Trail: Senior Infants

We did a Maths trail for Maths Week last week - looking for shapes,colours and numbers near our classroom.We counted trees on the grass and we were amazed how many different shapes we could see in one small area!

Activity Time, Junior Infants

 In the mornings we love doing activities of all sorts.  We love threading beads, making puzzles and making patterns and designs with our peg boards.

 

Classifying bugs: Senior Infants

Maths week, Maths trail, Senior Infants

Monday, October 11th, 2010

This week is Maths Week in Ireland.  Today we went on a Maths Trail - looking for colours and shapes in our environment.  We drew flowers and berries, counted trees and cars, wrote number plates and colours, and  picked leaves and seeds.  We saw lots of squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, diamonds and even some star shapes.  It was so much fun looking at maths all round us.

More Number activities in Room 5