Making our Own 3D Shapes

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
We tried making 2D and 3D shapes out of marshmallows and cocktail sausage sticks - very sticky. We made a square, cube, rectangle, cuboid, triangle, triangular prism, a pentagon and a hexagon. It wasn't possible to make a cylinder or sphere. We could see that the shapes made using triangles were the strongest - that's why you see so many triangle shapes in bridges and cranes. Next we made our own 3D shapes: with 3D jigsaw pieces, beads and connectors, flat triangles and squares, flat window shapes and with magnetic pieces. Each group had a different activity, and we will swop around for the rest of the week. We managed to make squares, triangles, rectangles, cubes, cuboids, a pentagonal prism, triangular prisms, triangular pyramids and square pyramids. We really are good at making and naming shapes.

Maths Barrier Game: Beads

Monday, November 16th, 2009
We played a necklace game. One person had a necklace made from a combination of beads - cubes, cuboids, spheres, ovals and barrels. We had 5 colours to choose from - red, yellow, green, blue and orange. The other person had to make an identical necklace without being able to see the original one. We used lots of language skills to explain to our partners which bead went where. It was quite hard but we were good at this.

Shapes Games

Friday, November 6th,2009
We are talking a lot about shapes. Today we played some shape and colour games. They are played in small groups and are a lot of fun. We played Jack and the Beanstalk 2D shape game, Make or Break 3D block game and Number Rumba which focuses on colour and number patterns.

Maths Game

Senior Infants, Room 5

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

We played a good maths game where we had to match up numbers of spots with numerals and number words. Each table had to try and race the others. It was very exciting.

Shapes 2D & 3D

Friday, October 16th, 2009
We are learning the names of the 2D and 3D shapes. We have lots of them in the classroom, so we have been playing with them, and naming each as we use it. Here are the 2D shapes we know: square, rectangle, triangle, circle and hexagon (we also know ovals). The 3D shapes we know are: cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder, cone, triangular prism, hexagonal prism, square pyramid and triangular pyramid. We are now looking for these shapes all round us.

Hallowe'en Data Chart

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
It is nearly Hallowe'en. We were talking about our favourite Hallowe'en things. We could choose pumpkins, bats, skeletons, ghosts or witches. We couldn't see what anyone else was choosing. We made a chart of our favourite things.
Witches and Bats were most popular, skeletons were least popular (I hope the skeleton hanging in our classroom doesn't get insulted!)

Data Chart

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Today we looked at the weather chart we recorded for September. We made a data chart of the weather record. We looked at the days that were sunny, cloudy, windy, wet, snowy and cold. We counted how many of each kind of day there was, and we compared the number of each kind of day. From this data we decided that September was a nice month - mostly cloudy or sunny days.