Blog by Tag: Maths

This week we have been looking for patterns around us including patterns in stories and songs. The children used chalks to create different patterns including spots, swirls, lines and zigzags. We then created patterns using peg boards and numicon. Together we also used lummi sticks to repeat…

Today we have consolidated our understanding of mixed numbers and improper fractions.

The children worked in pairs to match the correct representations together.

Practising our subitising skills in class this week. We are rolling a dice, recognising the number then circling the corresponding dots on a piece of paper.  The children are loving this already.  

Our nursery is full of invitations to play, learn, investigate and explore but first thing in the morning we vary what we have out on our carpet area. Recently, the children have loved mark making and exploring shape on large sheets of paper.

Today we have been investigating square numbers.

We used arrays and multi link cubes to show a range of square numbers.

The children in our nurseries have been playing in our woodland area this morning.  They have produced a woodland shop with sticks, branches and leaves, they have worked cooperatively to manoeuvre on the adventure trail and they have played a guessing game using pebbles.  The game was a focused…

Today we have looked at 2D shapes.  The children identified the shapes and then went into provision to find them.  We discussed not being able to pick up a 2D shape and that we would need to draw round these for them to be a true circle or triangle. 

Year 1- Maths fact families 

We have been learning about fact families in maths this morning. We have used double sided counters and tens frames to help us work out our addition facts. In pairs we have recorded our answer on a whiteboard. 

We saw fantastic creativity and imagination in our sensory play this week.  Children were focused and engaged well with the experiences provided.  Cognitively, sensory play stimulates neural pathways in the brain through exploring different textures, materials and smells.  

Maths happens everywhere in Reception. Here we are exploring quantities and making number blocks using multilink in the garden. 

Over the past few weeks the children have been really interested in pumpkins.  They have brought pumpkins in to use in our learning, and told us about visits to pumpkin patches.  We have used pumpkins in our maths counting and comparing activities, created and investigated pumpkin potions, shared…

We loved Rockstar day in Nursery A today which included our first Social Signature Assembly.  We had lots of fun whilst raising money for our school.