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Blossoms had a fantastic time celebrating World Maths Day. We linked Maths with English by solving Maths puzzles involving Roald Dahl characters and then we created some of our own. In Maths, we budgeted the price of different items by working out which chores we’d need to do for a specific cost to be able to buy the items. This is an excellent real life skill. Finally, we completed some Art through Maths by using our measuring skills to create Celtic knots and Curves of Pursuit. Excellent enthusiasm and resilience from all of Blossoms. Well done!
On Thursday, Chestnuts celebrated World Maths Day.
In English, we solved measurement questions about George’s Marvellous Medicine related to our work on Roald Dahl.
In maths, we improved our money skills by solving riddles. This helped us to find totals and give change.
During art, we created curves of pursuit patterns.
Some of our excellent work is shown below.
Today we did lots of activities for World Maths Day. In English we looked at some counting and number stories, then made our own number books.
In Maths, we explored money and set up a class shop, writing our own price tags and then buying things with real money.
In Art we found out about the artist Paul Klee, who created abstract art using colour and shape. We then made our own ‘Castle and Sun’ art work.
We also played the game ‘Toyshop Money’ on TopMarks Maths on the iPads. We had a great day and really enjoyed linking maths to all areas of the curriculum.
Counting Books
Paul Klee ‘Castle and Sun’ art
Writing price tags for our class shop
On Thursday 23rd March, Willows celebrated World Maths Day… even the date read the same backwards as it did forwards (23.03.23)!
In English we used one of Roald Dahl’s famous stories, Esio Trot, to base our tasks upon. The children worked hard to estimate the amount of tortoises Mr. Hoppy had and then used that number in many different ways. For example, they had to represent the number pictorially, partition it and then write a maths problem using it.
In maths, they brushed up on their money skills using ‘Topmarks toy shop game’ and then went on to calculate people’s orders at The Beach Cafe.
To explore maths in art, the children created some wonderful symmetrical insect drawings.
For World Maths Day Cherries looked at symmetry and linked this within an art lesson to create symmetrical ammonites.
The focus for the Maths lesson was on money to show how Maths can be used in the real world. The children had to count the amount of 1p coins needed to buy toys. The children also had to sort money into two groups. For Maths in Art we created art in the style of Paul Klee. The children selected 2d shapes to create a city skyline.
In DT Cherries have been constructing volcano models and this week we invited parents and carers into class to paint the volcanoes with their children. The children thought carefully about their designs and applied their extensive knowledge of volcanoes, such as saying their volcano is extinct, so painting no lava onto it. They then drew or painted designs onto rocks and showed their families some of our great resources in Cherries class. A fantastic afternoon and a huge thank you to all parents and carers for your time to come and partake in these activities with us.
Willows celebrated British Science Week with lots of fun activities and experiments.
The theme this year was ‘Connections’.
For their first activity the children explored their fingerprints; using magnifying glasses to determine the pattern of their prints. Are they whorl, arch or loop?
Then the children used pencils and sticky tape to produce prints of their fingers. They were able to see the pattern of each print in much more detail.
Afterwards, the children experimented with peppery water and hand soap. This experiment showed the children the importance of handwashing to prevent germs. When they touched the water with soap on their finger, the pepper (germs) moved away from it!
