Improving our maths skills.
Great work today playing the caterpillar ordering game.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering
Improving our computing skills.
We have been using software on the computer to learn about algorithms. We created instructions to navigate the fish through the maze and chose the right commands to create different shapes. We used the iPad to try some challenges that would test how good we were at creating simple algorithms to…
Busy with bee bot.
We have been learning that computers and lots of other devices are controlled by algorithms. An algorithm is a set of very specific instructions that make things work in a particular way. We practised giving bee bot the right commands to get him to travel to different places on the map.
Amazing Mental Maths
This week we have been playing some maths games on the iPads to help us get really fast at knowing our number bonds. Rapid recall of basic number facts really helps the children to do well in all of their maths as they can use facts that they know to help solve other problems. Rapid recall of…
Practising our place value
We are getting really good at knowing how many tens and ones make up the teen numbers (14 is 1 ten and 4 ones). Today we played different games that let us practise our skills.
Fantastic firework printing.
The children were inspired by watching a video of the fireworks in London to make their own firework pictures. They explored using different tools to print with and created different patterns and textures with pom-poms, straws, pipe cleaners as well as forks and cotton buds!!! We also used the…
