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We love stories in the Shooting Stars so we have introduced a story vote into our classroom. Each day when children come into nursery, they can vote for which story they would like me to read at home time by choosing a counter and placing it in the matching dish.
This promotes a love of reading and lots of talk about books. It also helps our Mathematical development as we have to work out which book has more and fewer votes so we can decide which story to read.
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In Maths, Reception have counted things that cannot be seen, discussed and practised strategies for counting larger sets – by moving objects and by moving images and we have made our own collections of 20 objects from objects in provision - super work Reception!
Our Year 1 children have learnt to explain that addends can be represented in any order and that this is called the commutative law, explained that the = sign can be used to show that the whole and the sum of the parts are equal and we have added parts to find the value of the whole and write the equation! In Mastering Number our Year 1 children have practised subtraction from the even numbers 6, 8 and 10. The children’s attention was drawn to the fact that when even numbers are partitioned into two parts, the parts are both even or both odd. This week we have been learning about direction in maths. We have been using the vocabulary; forwards, backwards, left and right. We began by turning our bodies to face a different direction, then we programmed the class robot "Beebot" to turn and move in different directions to reach a target on the map.
We were able to programme Beebot during our provision time and some of us also had a turn using a Beebot game on the Ipad. We used Beebot earlier in the year so were familiar with how it worked. This time we were able to say the direction it needed to move. Team CB's Maths has focussed on part whole models and bar model this week. They have explored closely the way in which addition and subtraction equations can be used to describe the additive relationship in 2 and 3 digit numbers. The children began by exploring how an equation can be placed into a bar model using knowledge of which numbers were the addends/sum and which were the minuend/subtrahend. They then used the bar model to generate 4 addition equations and 4 subtraction equations in each scenario. Next week, they will progress to identifying knowns and unknowns using the part whole models.
At group time today we read the story of "Ten Little Dinosaurs" to help with our Mathematical development. The children all held up ten fingers to represent the dinosaurs and then we learnt how to show this using counters on two 5 frames. We learnt to put one counter in each space and fill it up from left to right. We know that we don't need to count on a five frame as we can subitise how many (just say what we can see without any counting). We are practising this and getting really clever at it!
Then we read the book and we took one counter away each time until the five frames were empty. Each time we spoke about what the noticed and some children were able to say how many were left. I think we have some budding Mathematicians in our nursery! This week, our Year 3 mathematicians have been exploring the positions of the addends and the sum in column addition. After this, the children used column addition to solve problems involving two-digit numbers, aiming to correctly arrange the numbers using place value.
There are some great photos of today's learning on their blog page: https://www.wombwellparkstreet.co.uk/team-ch-blog-202425 This week Rainbows have been learning about odd and even numbers. We have used the Number Blocks to help us and watched the "even tops" episode. We know that even numbers have an even top where a ball rolls smoothly on it, and odd numbers do not and the ball rolls off.
We made our own number blocks and sorted them into two piles; odds and evens, after we had described them. https://www.wombwellparkstreet.co.uk/team-cw-blog-202425/previous/2 Rainbows had so much fun on Number Day! We listened to some Jack Hartmann songs and joined in with counting and actions. We also went on a number hunt! We had to find and write all the numbers that were hidden around the classroom and these included two digit and three digit numbers. We created some Number Blocks "stampoline" pictures to show numbers/amounts in different ways. We wrote our favourite numbers and drew some Number Blocks and played lots of number games. We played a memory game to match the numbers, a 10 green bottles game and a matching amounts and number game.
We’ve had an amazing time celebrating NSPCC Number Day! From fun counting challenges to interactive number games, the whole day has been filled with exciting activities. We've worked on everything from estimating, counting in different ways, to solving tricky number puzzles! It’s been a wonderful way to get creative with math while supporting an important cause. A big thank you to everyone who participated and made the day so special!
https://www.wombwellparkstreet.co.uk/team-ch-blog-202425 Team JD celebrated the 25th Anniversary of NSPCC number day 2025 in style.
They played lots of number related games and activities, such as Emoji adding, robot dice games, money monopoly and TTRS. They also, got to dress up in our favourite numbered outfits! Check out their blog page to see the photos: https://www.wombwellparkstreet.co.uk/team-jd-blog-202425 |
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