We all love a good sing song in our Crew but this week in maths we were singing some of our counting songs. 5 little speckled frogs was definitely our show stopping number.
I loved how the children showed such courage in performing our maths songs in front of their friends. What a great session.
Well done singing superstars!!
Mrs Wallace x
We had a great active maths session yesterday. We had to hunt around the classroom for pictures with different amounts of animals on them. We then had to find them on our hunt sheet and try and write the number all by ourselves.
We really enjoyed this and we worked so hard to find all of the numbers.
Well done everyone!
Mrs Wallace x
This week in counting collection we used our counting collection boxes all the way up to number 10. We worked collaboratively with our friends and we even began to mark make to represent our numbers.
Well done everyone, great teamwork!!
I can’t wait for our next session.
Mrs Wallace x
Class 4 had a fantastic time in their second Counting Collection session! Right from the start, the children impressed us by confidently recalling our class norms and the key steps needed to be successful.
It was a beautiful session full of curiosity and creativity. Each child explored their own counting collection box, carefully examining the items inside. They worked thoughtfully to represent the numbers in a variety of ways—showing not just their growing mathematical skills, but also their ability to think flexibly and explain their ideas.
We are so proud of the enthusiasm and focus Class 4 brought to this activity. Their excitement for learning truly shone through, and we can’t wait to see how their counting skills continue to grow in future sessions!
This week in Reception, we’ve been busy being brilliant mathematicians, exploring the exciting world of positional language. The children worked incredibly hard to demonstrate their understanding using the outdoor equipment, confidently using words like under, on top, in between, and inside to describe where objects and people were placed. They then put their learning into action by giving clear instructions to their friends, helping them move and position themselves using this new vocabulary. We finished the day with a fun and energetic game of Simon Says, which was a fantastic way to consolidate all the great learning from the week. Well done, Reception!
We have been talking about positional language this week. Teddy the frog came to help us and was sitting in some very unusual places. We had our own little people from our small world area and we had to listen to the instructions and follow them. Our favourite one was putting our little person “on top of our head”
Maybe you could have a go at home with some teddies of your own.
Mrs Wallace x
Today we had our first Counting Collection session. We counted out the boxes to 5 and made sure we had the right amount. The children were very interested…….I think there will be lots more exploration to come.
Well done everyone
Mrs Wallace x
The children are loving their new White Rose Maths work books and have done brilliantly in our first sessions. For the first term we work in small adult led groups to complete the workbooks and the other children complete lab activities independently that are linked to the lesson objective. One of our outcomes last week was ‘Count objects from a larger amount’ and the children completed this super-cute activity.
Well done my maths wizards!
This week has been all about getting ourselves hooked into the learning that we are about to embark on throughout Autumn term … in particular, our exciting new expedition all about the Romans – Coming to Doncaster; Why Then, Why Now?
Children have enjoyed getting to grips with geography to find out where Rome is in the world and they have got stuck in to all of our new expedition books! In reading, we have explored the historical story book, Vlad and the Roman Triumph and we have been learning all about the Roman armies and their armour. We made our own helmets and designed our own shields, as well as making dolly peg soldiers. In maths, we learned about timelines and calendars, and we even found out about Roman numerals before linking these to the clock and having a go at making our own! We were amazed by the history of the Roman colosseum and had a go at sketching this as carefully as possible. Then, we wrapped up all our learning with an amazing dress-up and workshop day where we were able to impress our expert visitors with the knowledge we already had about the Romans and their invasions.
At home, why not ask us about the different designs on a Roman shield and what they represent? And, why was red the colour of their military?
This afternoon, Year 3 enjoyed their first Friday orienteering session and (luckily for us!) the sun had come out just in time. Children used maps of the school grounds to locate the different markers and then, from these markers, they recorded different 3digit numbers that they will need to sort in ascending order next week when we finish the hunt!
