End of Week 1

We have now had a week of getting to know each other and the maths fun has begun. Geometry, position and orientation is our first strand topic. We have been exploring the language of direction and location. The experience of being blind folded and giving, receiving instructions made us all aware of the power of language. We have been exploring the workings of maps and are currently using a map of the school to hunt for certain locations. The Year 5/6's number focus has been on quick recall of basic facts. They have enjoyed playing a card game called "7ate9". I will let them bring it home one night so you can play it as a family. Card and dice games are a fun way to facilitate basic fact learning. The year 4's have been counting a set of objects between 20-50 and have been bundling groups of 10 to help keep track of the count. We are building on the big idea of place value - numbers have a place and a value. Below are some slide shows of our fun and learning.