This week we have focussed on writing our numerals round the right way.
Some of us write them back to front! If you have a spare moment it would be fantastic if you watch your child write the numbers and check the formation.
Here is a lovely You Tube clip to help the children with numeral writing. Just click on the link.
Maths is such fun when you have friends like Gus the Plus and Linus the Minus to help you. Gus and Linus help us with our addition and subtraction. Many thanks to Frugal in First for creating such fun characters to help us with our learning.
This term Mrs Nelson and Mrs K have worked together to prepare maths tasks that we rotate through each week. They are in line with the Australian National Curriculum. We have been put into four groups and each day we have a different task.
Here are the tasks we are doing this week.
It’s great fun! Everyone is kept busy and we are all engaged. You might notice that there are codes on some of our work. They are secret codes that Ann Baker has been helping us with. She is teaching us about Natural Maths. We use the codes to show our thinking.
Here is some of our work.
Sometimes we work with a partner and sometimes by ourselves.
At the end of the lesson we reflect on our work and share our learning.
We use AirServer which allows us to share our work from the i-Pads onto the whiteboard. A great App to do this is called ‘Explain Everything’. You take a photo on the i-Pad and you can then annotate with it and explain what you were thinking in your maths.
Do you enjoy Maths? What are you learning in Maths?
We have been practising how to write our numerals the right way round.For some of us that’s a bit tricky!
Here is a lovely youtube clip that we used to help us. Perhaps you could practise writing your numerals at home as well.
Can you write your numerals correctly? Are there any that you have to think about which way they face?
This is our first week back at school for term 4. In Maths we are learning to tell the time to the hour and half hour.
We found a great song on youtube that helps us with our o’clock times. You might like it too.
Do you know how to tell the time?
Can you tell the time on digital and analogue clock?
Today in Maths we continued to learn about Place Value. In Year One we have to recognise,model, read, write and order numbers to at least 100. We have to also understand the place value of numbers.
We have been working on this for a couple of weeks. Today we watched a fun Youtube video about Ones, Tens and Hundreds and we played the Bankers game (base 10 game). It was a fantastic way to reinforce the children’s learning.
Here is the video for you to look at:
http://youtu.be/vZLbnFE_Yf4
We found a partner and together we rolled a dice and added ones, tens and hundreds blocks. We had to know at all times how many blocks we had. Here are some photos of us working.
We are going to play this game again. It was a fun way to learn about Place Value!
Here is a Maths game for you to practise this week. It starts off easy and then gets harder.
Good luck!
Click on the screenshot and it will take you to the website.
We have been learning about time. We had to make our own clocks. Some of us had a little trouble getting our numbers into the right spot!
We have investigated o’clock and 1/2 past times as anologue and digital. We set little clocks to these times. Here we are showing the times we set on our clocks.
We sat with a partner and asked them to set their clocks to a specific time. We were able to help our friends if they needed it.
Mrs. Kolenberg found these fun songs on You Tube that helped us learn about time.
http://youtu.be/biann2PWqIA
http://youtu.be/343sVDC6-FE
This week our Maths focus has been on Ordinal numbers. The children have been divided into groups and each day they have rotated through a series of activities to consolidate their understandings. This has involved a series of tasks that required the children to display various skills.I have observed their progress in completing the tasks and recorded this through photographs that I could reflect on at a later date. I did this with a colleague and we have been able to collect data to demonstrate and assess the progress they have made.
Here are the tasks we set the children:
In the following slideshow you can see examples of the activities the children did each day.
