Shackadell class have loved maths week! We started the week in our whole school assembly thinking about all of the different ways that we use maths every day. We started our week reading ‘Abigail’ by Catherine Rayner. It is all about a giraffe who loves to count with her friends. At the end of the book they attempt to count all of the stars in the sky – an impossible job! We spent some time focussing on star constellations and counting how many stars make up these constellations.
In our maths lessons this week we have continued to look at the parts and whole of objects and numbers, especially focussing on the composition of the numbers 3, 4 and 5. We had a group of 4 children and sorted them in different ways looking at how 4 can be made up of 2 and 2 as well as 3 and 1. We also played some fun maths games and printed different compositions of 4.
During ‘Adventure time’ we really enjoy using different shapes to make things. I think some of us will be future engineers as we are really good at planning our structures and creating amazing buildings!
In ‘Drawing club’ this week we have been reading The Gingerbread Man. We used lots of maths skills when following a recipe to make our own gingerbread. We had to carefully measure our ingredients. When we decorated our gingerbread men, we thought about how many of each body part they have and that they make up a whole man!
This week we really enjoyed the book ‘How many legs’ by Kes Gray and Jim Field. The story talks about lots of different animals that go to a party and keeps track of how many legs they have altogether! We used our own small world resources and counted how many legs we had altogether on our page.
