Showing posts with label number. Show all posts
Showing posts with label number. Show all posts

Friday, 14 September 2012

Outdoor learning

The weather has been great this week!  Lucky us.  At the moment we are working on basic number skills. One of my groups went outside in maths to find hidden number cards and then had to make human number lines.  Another found hidden compare bears and had to count how many they found.  We then take photos as evidence of their work.
But of course maths isn't the only thing we do outside.  We are learning about the senses and poetry.  So this week we have gone outside to find signs of Autumn and collected them in and displayed our finds on trays.  We made smell pots, which involves finding things that smell and picking them from around the school grounds.  We are lucky at my school as we have a sensory garden, veggie patch and fruit trees.  We also did a listening walk for sense of hearing in the outdoor meadow.  The children even heard some insects.  To explore the sense of touch we used this hand template (you can find it on my pinterest board)  and found the textures outdoors.  What have you been doing outside this week?

Saturday, 17 March 2012

Number Work

Hide & Find:   this game can be played in many different ways
  • hide large number cards around your outdoor area
  • ask the children to find 1 number card each and return, you can then ask them questions about their number or to tell you something about their number
  • ask the children to find a number that is less than or greater than
  • ask the children to find a number that has a specific number units/tens
  • peg up the cards onto a washing line in ascending/descending order
Hide & Find Dominoes:
  • hide dominoes (I use large foam ones)
  • on return ask children to stand up if they have more than 5 spots on their domino
  • balance on one leg if you have less than 4 spots

Hide & Find Treasure:
  • hide treasure of any sort 
  • when the children return ask them to count how many pieces they have found (extend by counting in 2's or 5's)
  • can they estimate how much treasure they have before counting
  • who has the most/least?
  • if you give one of your pieces away, how much will you have?
  • how can we sort our treasure (colour, size, shape)

Hundred Square

  • get the children to chalk out a hundred square
  • use your painted hundred square or a giant hundred square mat
  • ask the children to cover the even numbers with red bean bags
  • find all the multiples of 3, 5, 10 etc