September weather: Data chart, Ms. McLoughlin's senior infants

Friday, 30th September, 2011

We have been keeping an eye on the weather.  Every day we put out our weather stick, with a thermometer, rain gauge and flower kite.  Before home time we check the temperature, amount of rain that fell during the school day and how windy it is.  We record these on our daily weather chart.  

Today we took all this information and made a data chart.  We talked about the type of weather most and least common this September, the amount of days with each weather type, and how many more or less days of one kind than of another.  Here are our results:

We will make great weathermen and women when we are older!

Learning about shapes: Ms. McLoughlin's senior infants

Maths online: Senior infants, Ms. Flaherty's class

Check out the Topmarks site (http://www.topmarks.co.uk/) Early Years section for some wonderful Maths activities. We played a ladybird game today to practise our counting. We also played a wonderful shape recognition game where we had to match up squares, rectangles, triangles, ovals and semi-circles. Semi-circle was a new word we learned today and we discovered that if we put two semi-circles together that we got a circle!!

Maths activities: Ms. Flaherty's senior infants

Maths pattern work: Ms. McLoughlin's class

Shoe mix-up: Senior infants, Ms. Tierney's class

Our shoes got mixed up in the classroom recently and each child had to find a matching pair.It was fun!

More number activities in Senior Infants

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

We are having a lot of fun with numbers.  Today we took out the number hopscotch and teacher played games with it.  We played a game where one person from each team had to compete to find and stand on the number teacher called.  The team with the most wins was the winning team.  

The other game we played was called "sound of a number".  Teacher dropped crayons into a tin, we had to listen well and then figure out how many crayons were in the tin.  This took quite a lot of concentration.

Maths number games: Senior infants

Human Numberline

We made a human numberline from 0 to 9 with our number fans.

Teacher gives one person a task: to find the number 5 (for example), or to find the number after 8 etc.

If that person can find the right number they can now take the card and join the numberline in the correct place, while the original number holder has to sit down. 

Everyone got lots of turns at this game.  It was fun.

Fun with Maths Fans: Senior Infants