Number and quantity counting
Today Nursery went for a trip to the seaside! At the seaside we wanted some ice cream so needed to count the scoops. We did an amazing job of matching number to quantity from 1-10, and then drew various ice cream amounts on the whiteboard. Well done Nursery!
Maths AL - 3D Shapes
The children have recapped their learning of 2D shape names and their properties. This week we have been focusing on 3D shape names and recognising them in the environment. We have looked at images, we have been on shape hunts and coloured lots of different shapes, we then counted how many shapes…
Percentages in Year 5
In Narwhals we have worked very hard on our percentage work, today saw us using our prior knowledge of equivalent fractions in order to convert between fractions and percentages
Role Playing - How much do I need?
This week in maths we have been identifying coins up to £2. The children then independently went in the role play area to buy different objects, they took it in turns to work on the till and chose what they would like to buy. They had to find the correct coins and take it to the till keeper to…
Looking at common denominators to subtract fractions
As part of our work on fractions we looked at a misconception we had around subtracting fractions, some of us needed to continue working on finding equivalent fractions to subtract but others needed to expand their learning by looking at how to find the common denominator for fractions that…
Baking Gingerbread Men
We had previously gone on a trip to Lidl to buy our ingredients to make a Gingerbread man, as a group we then worked together to measure and mix the ingredients. It was important we used the scales and added the correct amount of ingredients to ensure the correct ratios. We read and followed the…
Tricky Time
In Maths this week, we have started our new topic on time. Year 4 have found time rather tricky but have shown fantastic resilience in their maths lessons. At the beginning of the week, we focussed upon telling the time to the hour and to 5 minutes, this has now become a strength in year 4. Keep…
Marvellous maths
This week in Maths we have finished off our learning all about translating and describing coordinates on a grid. Year 4 found this difficult at first as this required a lot of focus to count each square. But then towards the end of the week year 4 have shown incredible resilience and have produced…
Year 5 Narwhals Improper Fractions
Today the children in Year 5 have work very hard to convert Improper Fractions into Mixed Numbers, we linked this to our prior learning non equivalent fractions and used this skill to answer a variety of problem solving and reasoning questions.
We’re going on a shape hunt!
Today we have enjoyed going on a shape hunt! Firstly, we named all of the shapes that we know using our flash cards. We then identified these shapes in our environment, discovering that they were the shape of lots of our everyday items! We also talked about how many sides each of our shapes…
Seeing double!
We’ve been looking at lines of symmetry in maths and applying this knowledge to 2D shapes.