Measurement with non standard units

We have been talking about forces, and also about which shapes roll and which don't.

Today we had to guess which of the following objects would roll on the ramp and which wouldn't.

Spool, car, topper, cork on its end, paper clip, sphere.

We guessed the spool, car and sphere would roll. The others have no circular end (except for the cork which rolled when we put it on its side), and so would not roll.
Gravity helps pull the objects to the ground, and friction slows them down (as does bumping into lollipop sticks, as we discovered)

The car and the sphere rolled best.

We used lollipop sticks to measure how far each item rolled.

Here is the result.

After this we raised the ramp to see if this would make any difference to how far the object would travel. 

It really did.

Our ball travelled 3 sticks further with the higher ramp and the car rolled a further 6 sticks even further than the sphere.

We loved testing this!

Numeracy and literacy activities

We had fun with some new literacy and numeracy activity sheets.

 We played dice addition (we threw two dice, wrote the sum and added the spots)

 We used CVC cards to make as many words as we could

 We used a flip book to make as many words as we could.

 We had addition races, which were fun too.

Numeracy games

Today our focus was on numeracy games.

Two groups focused on numbers and played Spotty Dog Game and the Game of Ladybirds.

Two other groups focused on shape, space and colour activities.

These groups played the Jack and the Beanstalk game and the Incy Wincy Spider game.

The final group focused on sorting and grouping and they played the Lunch Box game.

Each group rotated so that every student got a chance to play every game today.

We had lots of fun!

Activity time

We love Maths and English activity time. Today, for Maths activity time, we were copying pattern cards. It had to look exactly like the pattern on the card when we were finished!!. Teacher said that we were AMAZING at it!!!

We were also working in pairs, during our computer time,  on Literacy activities on the computer and I.W. We had to read a story and then work through various literacy activities based on the story. 

3D shapes

We have been learning all about different 3-D shapes in Maths, particularly cubes, cuboids, cylinders, spheres, pyramids, square pyramids, triangular pyramids, triangular prisms etc. We can count the faces, corners (or vertices), and sides of each shape and have experimented with which 3-d shapes can or can't roll. The shapes without any corners can roll easily.We also are very good at identifying different 3-d shapes in the environment.  We love playing a shape game in class, where teacher puts a selection of 3-d shapes in a bag and describes its properties (e.g. it has 6 faces and all of them are squares, 12 sides and 8 corners) and we have to guess the shape teacher is talking about. We also take turns describing a shape from the bag (which we can feel but cannot see!!!) and the rest of the class have to guess the shape. We also made some cubes using marshmallows and cocktail sticks!! We had to think carefully about the number of faces, sides and corners of a cube.