LOOK! Silver, Gold and Platinum certificates! Brilliant!
Man-Made or Natural?
We had a think about the different features of all the places we’ve visited this term…St. Marychurch, Babbacombe, Dartmoor, Watcombe beach and the woods. We thought about whether the features were man-made or natural and whether the man-made features improved the place. Some of the features we thought of were a bit of a puzzle. For example…are the downs at Babbacombe natural or man-made? Let me know what you think and why.
Gigantic Maths!
Today in numeracy we had to imagine that there were other worlds out there, worlds of ogres and giants! We had to use our new skill of multiplying by 10 and 100 to help. We even had a go at multiplying by 1000! An ogre is 10 times the size of a human. A child giant is 100 times the size of a human and an adult giant is 1000 the size of a human. We had to work out how big things would be in their worlds. For example a human shoe is 12 cubes long, if it belonged to an ogre it would be…hmmm can you work it out?
As Good as Gold
Well done to these lovely children who recieved their Golden Book certificates today. No warnings for half a term! Fantastic!
As tricky as ….
Today in Literacy we had a look at similes. Can you explain to someone at home what a simile is? To get our brain around what they are and to think about some commonly used ones we played a ‘simile bingo’ game. It was fun!
On Target!
Well done Rhys and Dylan! The first people to achive their first numeracy target.
In G2 our numeracy targets are focused on our timestables. We can already confidently count to solve a multiplication problem but we now are trying to make sure we have instant recall. This is really tricky! Our targets are…
- To instantly recall 2s, 5s, and 10s
- To instantly recall 3s, 4s, and 6s
- To instantly recall 7s, 8s, and 9s
To achieve a target we are tested on our tables by the class. We have to get 5 instantly right. We are pretty tough about the ‘instant’ bit! If we get a table right we can put a star on the chart.
Don’t forget to pop your name in the star pot if you want to be tested! Get someone at home to help you practice…remember all the places and times we thought of that we could practice!
Good luck! Hopefully we’ll have more photos of people who’ve achieved targets soon…Dylan has nearly achieved his 2nd one already!
1st Target Achieved!
Putting Maths into Action!
Today for our Maths lesson we didn’t stay in the classroom for long! We have been learning how to calculate the area of a shape so decided to put this into practice around school. We used trundle wheels to measure the length and width of different areas in school and then multiplied these two numbers together to find the area. We decided to round the measurements to the nearest metre as using the trundle wheel in corners of rooms proved to be rather tricky! We found the area of the dinner hall, the hall, the little playground, our classroom and G1.
Have a look at our photos of us in action.
