Maths: Blog items
Date: 5th Jan 2023 @ 3:45pm
Before we started our new topic on the Stone age man, we discussed BC and AD for the timelines in history. We established that the Stone age was the only thing in our timeline that was BC and the rest of the pictures were all in the last 600 years. We put ourselves in the timeline too!
We went on the look at picture sources to answer the question "Was Stone Age Man just a simple Hunter Gatherer?"
Year 4 Emile Timestable World Cup Update!
Date: 5th Jan 2023 @ 11:37am
We are so proud to share that 10 Boundary children came in the top 100 out of over 250,000 children from across the country who took part in the Emile Timestable World Cup with one child coming in the TOP 50!
Year 4 have been working hard on their times tables, improving their knowledge, recall and application skills and their hard work is really beginning to show in the classroom and in competitions like this! Well done Year 4!
Date: 16th Dec 2022 @ 9:55am
Amazing news!! Congratulations to all the children in Year 4 for coming 7th place in the Times Table World Cup competition! We are so proud of you!
Date: 8th Dec 2022 @ 6:34pm
Today we worked collaboratively to build and assemble a range of 3D shapes. We firstly looked for examples of 3D shapes within the classroom and identified the number of faces, edges and vertices of each shape. We then used this knowledge to create a range of 3D shapes out of different materials.
‘A cube has 6 faces’ ‘It has 12 edges and 8 vertices’
‘A cuboid has 6 faces – four rectangles and 2 squares’ ‘It has 8 vertices and 12 edges’
‘A pyramid has 5 faces – 4 triangles and 1 square’ ‘It has 5 vertices and 8 edges’
Date: 8th Dec 2022 @ 2:35pm
Today, in Maths, we practiced making 2D shapes using paper art straws for their sides and playdough for the shapes vertices. Whilst making each shape we had to think about the correct number of sides and vertices each shape had and correctly label them once we had made them. Tomorrow we will use our knowledge to draw them using geoboards.
Date: 8th Dec 2022 @ 11:17am
This year for our enterprise task we have been making and preparing 'Reindeer Food' for Christmas Eve and Sweet Bags for the Christmas festivities. We spoke about what enterprise means and understood that we were making things to be sold. The 'Reindeer Food' and Sweet Bags will be sold at the school Christmas Fair next Wednesday!
Date: 5th Dec 2022 @ 3:37pm
Amazing news coming out of Year 4 - we have won our Fylde Coast and Lancashire League for the mile Timestable World Cup and we are now through to the National finals!
The Nationals will commence over the coming days, so please support your Year 4 child in practising as much as they can to get Boundary to the top once again!
Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 11:00am
We have been reading the story "Whatever Next!" By Jill Murphy. In the story a little bear makes a rocket out of a cardboard box and flies to the moon! We have had some super spaced themed activities including making space ships out of shapes and throwing the right number of space rocks in to a box. A favourite was making a giant planet by splatttering paint - great for working those big muscles. The chiildren also did some great mark making describing their trip to the moon.
Nursery - Aliens Love Dinopants!
Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 11:28am
It's been pants crazy in nursery this week! We have been reading the story "Aliens Love Dinopants" all about aliens and dinosaurs who share a love of underpants! The children have been busy designing their own underpants and creating their own aliens. They really enjoyed blowing paint with a straw and adding eyes to make an alien! They have been counitng aliens, matching pants with the same pattern and feeding aliens at the funky fingers table! One day we even discovered some alien eggs. We waited patiently until they were ready and then we help the baby aliens hatch from the eggs!
Year 2 Using Concrete Resources
Date: 18th Nov 2022 @ 4:28pm
This week in Year Two, we have furthered our addition knowledge by learning to add two, two-digit numbers building on our knowledge of adding a one-digit number to a two-digit number. To help us, we have used concrete resources to exchange ten ones for one ten to make it easier to count and add our tens and ones. The concrete resources have really helped us learn the skill before applying it to pictoral and abstract questions. Next week, we will build on our subtraction knowledge to subtract two, two-digit numbers.
Date: 16th Nov 2022 @ 10:49am
Nursery have been exloring Autumn this week. We have talked about all the signs that it is Autumn including colourful leaves, conkers and acorns on the ground and the weather getting a bit cooler. The children have loved looking at Autumn objects with a maginifying glass and talking about what they could see. We also made some great leaf people - everyone looked different! To help us develop our subitising skills, we picked a card with 1,2, or 3 dots on and then had to add the same number of leaves to a tree and for our fine motor muscles the chilren put loom bands on pinecones and used tweezers to move conkers in to a bowl.
Year 5 - Finding factors and making multiples
Date: 9th Nov 2022 @ 8:19pm
In maths we have been using our knowledge of multiplication facts to find multiples and factors of numbers. In this lesson, we played a 2-player game, where pupils took turns choosing numbers that must be either a multiple of, or factor of the previous number. The player who is unable to find a correct number loses! This helped the children to understand what multiples and factors are, as well as show their knowledge and develop tactics to win.
Year 2 Addition and Subtraction
Date: 6th Nov 2022 @ 11:02am
This week, we have began exploring addition and subtraction when you have to cross into another ten. To master the skill, we used concrete resources- Base 10- to practise exchanging ten ones for one ten when adding and exchanging one ten for ten ones when subtracting. To help us to grasp the concept of exchanging through our role play of shop keepers and ensuring you exchange for the same amount. These practical activities really helped us apply our knowledge to more abstract questions.
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 7:36pm
This week we began to explore the term part and whole. We worked practically to investigate how to identify a whole number and split it into different parts. We realised that we could split the whole number into two (or more) different parts and that these can be shown either way around, e.g. 3 and 4 make the same whole as 4 and 3. We have also continued to complete place value and number activities in our provision to support our knowledge of numbers!
Date: 2nd Nov 2022 @ 11:37am
Enter Nursery if you dare this week! There have been some very spooky goings on as we celebrated Halloween. We read the story "What's in the Witch's Kitchen" and turned our homecorner in to a witches kitchen - eye ball soup anyone? The children developed their fine motor skills by hammering witches fingers in the a pumpkin and practised counting by sticking legs on to a spider. It's been a very creepy week!
Date: 31st Oct 2022 @ 10:09pm
Today the children have enjoyed taking part in lots of halloween activities. They enjoyed counting out spooky objects and ordering numbers, making repeated patterns with scary objects, creating their own potions, carving pumpkins, collaging bats and pumpkins, role playing in the witches kitchen and even using our phonics to sound out spooky words. We have been talking about different family traditions and discussed how different families celebrate in a range of ways. The children have had a fantastic time. Have a look at our wonderful learning.
Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 7:55am
In DT, we made prototypes. Some of us used cotton but some used felt! We discovered that it was much easier to use fabric pens on cotton and therefore we think this would be a better material for the final design. When we evaluated the prototypes, we decided that the colouring needed to be much needed and that small areas of colour would be easier. We tried different sizes and decided that 20cm x 20cm was a good size. Next time, we would use more resources such as felt, buttons and sequins to make the designs more interesting.
Year 6 Calculating with Spreadsheets
Date: 16th Oct 2022 @ 8:08pm
This week we continued with our spreadsheet unit in Computing. We learned how to use formulae to calculate totals and averages before going on to order the data and find a percentage.
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 12:04pm
This week the children have been reading the story 'Owl Babies'. They have been enjoying lots of different owl based activities including painting owls, counting owl feathesr and matching them to the correct quantity, drawing the characters and labeling with the sounds with the correct sounds and retelling the story using the props at the story telling table. What a busy week we have had!
Nursery find a Dragon in their Book!
Date: 10th Oct 2022 @ 10:33pm
Nursery enjoyed a super book by Tom Fletcher called "There's a Dragon in your Book". This is super interactive story where the children try to help a baby dragon put out the fire in the book. From the story the chidlren have interacted with a dragon small world and made up stories, developed their maths skills by feeding dragons the correct number of gems and developed their finger muscles by trying to balance dragon eggs on golf tees!
Year 5 Roman Numerals Jigsaw challenge
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 11:41am
We have applied our knowledge of Roman Numerals to work out and create different jigsaws by matching the numbers with the Roman numerals. The challenge was tricky because some of the numbers didn't match because they formed the outside edge.
Reception Investigating Number Four
Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 10:11am
This week Reception have been busy investigating the number 4. The children have been practicing subtising number 4 by spotting patterns in the arrangments of the objects.
"It looks like a square. A square has 4 sides" Alfie
"3 on that side and 1 there" Ishaanvir
"2 and 2 is 4" Olivia
We used the multilink and building blocks outside to make number four. The children explored the composition of the number 4 by arranging the blocks, gems in different ways. Have a look at our learning!
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 10:05pm
Nursery have enjoyed reading "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell. The story is all about three baby owls who worry that their mummy won't come back when she flies off to hunt for some food. Of course everything is ok and their Mummy comes back! The children have been doing lots of owl based activites in continuous provision including making playdough owl babies, making owls at the craft table, building nests for the owls, using tweezers to pull worms out of the mud and retelling the story using our beautiful Owl Babies tuff tray. As well as all of this, we have also been practicing counting to 3 by putting 3 owls on a branch.
Date: 27th Sep 2022 @ 6:45pm
Today we worked practically to count forwards within 10 from any given number. We found given numbers on our number lines and learnt how to use them to find the number after, stating the oral sentence, ‘the number after __ is __.’ We looked at different representations, including number lines and tens frames, to find missing numbers and explain the mistakes.
Date: 22nd Sep 2022 @ 7:41pm
In our Mastery In Number sessions this week, Year 1 have been exploring ways to make 5. We have spent time learning how to use our Rekenrek correctly and investigated number bonds to 5 with this resource. Later in the week, we also used cubes to show how to work systematically. With a partner, we used STEM sentences to verbalise our findings, e.g. I have 2, you have 3, together we have 5!
