Trains travel different distances on different surfaces

Bridges from Tangrams: Senior Infants

We are talking a lot about shapes, and about bridges.  Here is a bridge made from tangram shapes.

Look at the fantastic kite made only from triangles stuck together!

Maths with a visualiser in Junior Infants

Today we were very lucky to be given a new digital camera for our classroom and a very modern Ladybug Visual Presenter. The Ladybug is a little camera that teacher can use to zoom in on anything and the live image will appear on the board. Today we used it in Maths class. Miss Ferguson made patterns and shapes using blocks and the class had to make the same shapes with their own set. We loved using our new equipmentt :) 

Snakes and Ladders in Junior Infants

Train Data Chart: Senior Infants

2D train pictures: Senior Infants

3D shapes in senior infants

We are learning all about 3-D shape.s The main 3-d shapes we are concentrating on are cubes, cuboids, cylinders and spheres. We identified these shapes in the environment and we also brought in some more examples of these shapes from home. We are practising counting the faces, edges and corners (if applicable) of these shapes. We play a game with teacher where we have to feel a 3-shape in the feely bag (we can't look at it) and we have to feel it and describe what we are feeling. The rest of the class have to guess what shape it is. We give as much information about the shape as possible. For example if we are holding a cube we might say 'the shape in my hand has 6 faces, 12 edges and 8 corners. All the faces are squares. Whoever guesses correctly comes up next and picks another shape from the bag. We also experimented with which 3-d shapes could roll and which ones couldn't. We discovered that the corners aren't helpful when trying to roll a shape with corners!! Cylinders and spheres roll very well whereas cubes and cuboids don't roll at all. We also used 3-d shapes to make things. We worked in groups and had great fun.

I have a cuboid.

What's the time in Senior infants

We are learning to tell the time and we are getting really good at it. We practise every day and we have a large white clock hanging up in our classroom and we look at it at regular intervals and see if we can say what time it is. We also made our own 'cat' clocks so that we could practise telling the time at home. In P.E. this week we played 'What time is it Mr. Wolf?'. It's a very exciting game and all that running away from the wolf helps to keep us fit!!

Adding in Senior Infants

Today we were pracitising adding our numbers by using an assortment of concrete materials such as teddy bears, letters and counters. We made two sets which we added together to find out the total.

Shape activities in action: Senior infants

2D and 3D shape activities in Senior Infants

Symmetrical prints in second class