Blog Author: Mrs Cross

We made plasticine reliefs of our faces in art this week.  Do you think they look like us?

We also practised our throwing and catching skills whilst counting in 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 3’s.

We used pine cones to practise our adding and subtracting today.

Today we used the Base 10 to investigate partitioning numbers in different ways.

Today a special visitor came to see us.  It was Harold, our favourite giraffe.  He helped us to learn all about making friends and keeping them.

Great team work!!!  Grouping objects to make counting easier.

More fabulous team work - grouping objects to make counting quicker.

Here we are grouping objects into sets to make counting them easier.  We grouped them into 2’s, 5’s, 10’s and some of us even tried 3’s.

Today we learnt it’s much quicker to count larger sets of objects in groups rather than one at a time.

Do you know what number this is?

In class we have talked a lot this week about why we come to school.  We agreed on three main reasons.  These are to have fun, to learn and to make friends.  Here we are combining all three, coaching our friends to get the beanbag into a hoop behind us without looking.  Some of us gave brilliant…

In PE we will be learning lots of playground games from the past.  Here we are playing ‘stuck in the mud’.  We ran and dodged so quickly, Mrs Cross struggled to get a good picture of us!!  She’ll keep trying so watch this space for better shots in the coming…