Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
We do lots of maths in class. Sometimes we use the whiteboard, sometimes we do interesting activities and sometimes we use our books. Sometimes we do them all! Today we did all of them. We did some pattern activities: links, pegs,
counters, 
pattern blocks and beads. 
We also used our digit cards and our counting stick. 
Our counting stick has no numbers on it but we know where the numbers are. We follow teacher (or one of the kids) as they move up and down the stick. We call out the numbers that her hand lands on. It is challenging but fun.
When teacher gives out the digit cards we have to make a human line from 0-9. Then teacher lets us swop round - she tells someone who is sitting down to go to "the number 6" or to "the number before/after 8" or to "the number between 2 and 4" and if we get it right we can swop with the person holding the number. That way we all get lots of turns.
We do lots of maths in class. Sometimes we use the whiteboard, sometimes we do interesting activities and sometimes we use our books. Sometimes we do them all! Today we did all of them. We did some pattern activities: links, pegs,
counters, pattern blocks and beads. 
We also used our digit cards and our counting stick. Our counting stick has no numbers on it but we know where the numbers are. We follow teacher (or one of the kids) as they move up and down the stick. We call out the numbers that her hand lands on. It is challenging but fun. When teacher gives out the digit cards we have to make a human line from 0-9. Then teacher lets us swop round - she tells someone who is sitting down to go to "the number 6" or to "the number before/after 8" or to "the number between 2 and 4" and if we get it right we can swop with the person holding the number. That way we all get lots of turns.
We had a great Maths Trail today. We had teams of 4 with one paper holder, one recorder and two lookers in each team. We had to answer lots of interesting questions. Some of the questions were really easy but some were more challenging. It was a lot of fun and we got a chance to practise the maths we learned this year.
On Thursday last, May 28th, some of our Mammies and Daddies came to our class.
They were great fun. We played Bingo, Snakes and Ladders, Hot Dog and Colour a picture.
We had fun today measuring how many cups of water were in different containers. We had lots of chances to guess before we did the measuring.
We had a great maths lesson on sorting, using our collection of bugs. We sorted the bugs into lots of different groups according to
It was a great chance to talk about bugs, and to practice our sorting, all at the same time.
We can make cubes, cuboids, triangular prisms, triangular pyramids and square pyramids
Here is a selection of the shapes we made. .
We are getting very good at this activity.
