Last week we were celebrating maths week, along with the rest of the school.
We have been enjoying different number rhymes each day and practising representing quantities using our fingers. We looked at the wonderful book Anno's Counting Book and asked the questions "What do you see?" and "How do you see it?" to encourage our noticing skills, leading on to subitising (recognising a quantity without needing to count it - the foundation of number sense). Some of our children used 5s frames to explore the composition of numbers to 5. It was very exciting to be told "There's nothing, that's zero", "There's a 2 and there's a 2, so that is 4!" and "I have 2, so I need 3 more to make 5" (while using the 5s frame). Equally important, it was brilliant to hear "I can see a bridge!"
What brilliant noticing mathematicians!
We have also has a wonderful time exploring the ice outside and experimenting with making it melt back into water.
We have been developing fine motor skills, tearing and gluing to add texture to our big heart and developing gross motor skills, with yoga and lots of outdoor learning too, building and balancing.
