Maths: Comparing lengths in Senior Infants

We have been talking about different measures: Long and short, deep and shallow, wide and narrow, big and small, full and empty.  We used children in our class to demonstrate long-longer-longest, short-shorter-shortest.  Can you figure out which is which?

Patterns in Junior Infants

We are noticing that alot of things have patterns on them, carpets, tiles, clothes, shoes, toys, wallpaper and lots more.  We had great fun with patterns.  Teacher made a pattern and put it under the visualiser and we tried to copy the pattern. We started with some very simple patterns and then they became more difficult.  We were very good at it but we had to concentrate very hard to get some of them.

Measuring in Senior Infants

We have been busy measuring in Maths over the past few days with informal units of measurement (such as measuring with cubes, lollipop sticks and handspans). An important part of this activity is estimating first what we think the answer is going to be. It was great fun guessing beforehand and it didn't matter if our guess was right or wrong. We did our best to make a sensible guess. Once we made our guess and recorded it we then measured the object to see if our answer was correct. We worked individually at times and we also worked with a partner. Have a look at us at busy at work!!!

Spring data chart in Senior Infants

We are talking a lot about Spring: baby animals, flowers, longer days, the sights, sounds and tastes of Spring.  Today we made a data chart of our favourite Spring things.  It looks like this:

Buying and selling in Senior infants

Today we set up a small shop in the classsroom.  Some of us were shopkeepers and the rest of us were customers.  The shopkeepers had to display their goods and prices and answer any questions the customers had. They also had to make sure they received the correct amount of money for their sales.

The customers had to decide what they wanted to buy with their money and count it out before giving it to the shopkeeper. We used 1c ,2c and 5c coins . We changed roles after all our money was spent so everyone got a chance to role play the shopkeeper and customer.

 We got really good at counting out our money!

Maths recovery games in First Class

Heavy and Light - Junior Infants

With lots of practice, we are now very good at picking items that are heavy and light compared to each other. 
Now we are trying to balance the scale with things that way the exact same.  It turns out Alyssa's shoe and Sarah's shoe make our scale balance.