Half

We've been working on the concept of half, but I'm sorry to say dear readers, I couldn't think of a practical activity for outdoors.  Maybe some of you can?  If you do have ideas, feel free to post a comment.  If I was in a more woodsy outdoor area, I suppose we could have filled up some containers half full with acorns, pine cones etc.  What do you think?

Measuring

We've been measuring with non-standard units.  The children have collected leaves and ordered them according to size.  They drew lines with sidewalk chalk and then found objects longer and shorter.  We also used leaves to find things longer and shorter.  For problem solving, which we do at least once a week (often more) we worked out how to measure our outdoor area using our footsteps, we all looked at the concept of estimating too.

2D shape hunt

We've been learning about 2D shapes this week.  Shockingly, my class seemed to find this quite unfamiliar.  We did lots of activities with playdough, art straws, feely bags etc.  We also had a 2D shape hunt outdoors.  I hid the large wooden 2D shapes outside and they had to find the shapes first according to their names and then by property.

Skittles

We've been working really hard on our subtraction!  I took a group out and played skittles.  We knocked over some cups and then wrote the subtraction sentences. We are lucky to have a covered area outside our Year 1 classrooms, because it was raining!  Also, guess what I got with our Tesco Vouchers???  The outdoor shop that I posted about a while ago.  Now I have to rustle up some baskets and play food to kit it out.

Confession Time

I haven't been outdoors this week for lessons!  What I have been up to is updating the ipads with new apps. The children have been doing subtraction this week and we didn't really have anything for maths on the ipads yet.  So what did I put on there?  Little digits and rabbit take away!  We are all in love with little digits, it's amazing.  Hopefully next week we will get outdoors a bit more.  Maybe a game of take away skittles...

Money, money, money

We just finished a week on money.  Outside I hid coins in the sand tray and the children found them and sorted them and made coin rubbings.

Puzzles

Today we went outside to solve a puzzle.  I used a challenge from the Year 1 mathematical challenges book, but made it real.  We used our big outside wooden blocks in piles of 6 3 2 5 and had to make them the same height in only two moves.  I also gave jenga blocks for the ones indoors.  It was great to see the children trying different ideas and working together!