Counting fun!

Now that we are in 1st class, we are counting and adding with even bigger numbers. Today, we counted carefully to 15 and 16 using cubes and lollipop sticks. We also played a few fun games.

As you can see, we concentrated very hard when we were counting!!!

Maths trail

It is Maths Week.

We went on a Maths trail today.

We wore our high-vis vests so we can be seen by all cars.

We like to keep safe on the road.

On our walk we saw lots of circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, ovals, cylinders, diamonds, octagons, spheres, cuboids and cones.  We even saw a triangular pyramid.

We love looking out for shapes around us.

Shapes Walk

This week we have been learning about 2D shapes. The shapes we are learning about are circles, squares , rectangles, triangles and semicircles. On Thursday, we went for a walk to find shapes in our environment. We saw lots of shapes and had lots of fun looking. Take a look ....

Mini beast maths

We learned lots about bugs, insects and minibeasts today.

Some of the bugs we looked at are really good for the environment.  Ladybirds eat aphids and other garden pests, worms are great for the soil, bees make honey and pollinate flowers and spiders kill flies.

Some of our bugs are bad bugs.  Flies spread disease, praying mantis kill other little insects, scorpions can sting, ants can bite and bees and wasps can sting (though they really only bite us, or sting us if they are afraid).

We know that insects have six legs and two body parts (and often have wings).

We sorted our bugs into sets of insects and non insects.

We also made a 3D data chart of our mini beasts.  Usually we make data charts with pictures but today we used the model insects to show how many of each we have.  We sorted, classified, and lined up our bugs and then we compared groups.  We had the most spiders and the least number of blue bottle flies and worms.

As well as learning lots of science we also learned lots of maths by playing with our mini beasts.
We are learning to love real mini beasts too, not just the plastic models.