Our Maths Learning

        

   As part of our own professional learning we have what we call Triples, where we conduct lessons in front of our triples buddies.  We then reflect on the lessons and get feedback from our buddies.  This helps to inform our practise and our Teaching as Inquiry.  It's also always helpful to see a range of lessons going on throughout the school and get feedback from extra eyes.  This group of kids is working on building their number sense through something called subitising which is being able to instantly recognise sets of numbers without having to count them.  Playing games with dice and tens frames helps with this. 

 

This group has also been exploring number stories to match Pete the Cat and his 4 groovy buttons story.  They listened to the story and as Pete loses his buttons they popped the buttons off his shirt.  Then they made up their own number stories starting with 10 and showing how many buttons he lost and how many were left over.  They did this using a tens frame--another way to create visual representations and to help them keep these numbers in their heads. 

These guys have been working on building buildings for Maths Street.  We were making teen towers.  We made a tower of ten and some more.  Then we wrote the number sentences. 

We are going to continue to build our Maths City.  Look out for bigger numbers!



In Maths we have also started working on repeating patterns.  Have a look at our patterns!

Character Writing 

This week we have been using our imaginations to create a character. Each writing group has a different character and we are visualising (which means making a picture in our heads) to describe what they look like. 

The butterfly group working with Kath had to visualise an alien. After we each drew our own we shared our ideas and put them together to create one SUPER alien, who we called the Jitollar ( made from taking the first letter of each of our names). After that we helped each other to write a description of what he looks like on the outside.

Sorry that you have to read it sideways!

It says: The Jitollar. He has a slimy green body. He has 4 scaly arms. There are sharp claws on the Jitollar. He has 3 long stripy necks and 3 round heads. He has 10 legs that are orange and scaly. 

What do you think? Can you picture him? Please add a comment below. On Thursday we will post a picture of him to see if you visualised him like we did.