Classroom News –
Our classroom news will return next week, see below, some snaps from our first few days of 2019.

NUMERACY

Year 5/6 Students have been practising their large number reading skills. This also provides opportunities to brush up on place value skills. Naming place value in large numbers is an essential skill which will need to be applied in many areas of numeracy. We have also investigated number properties such as, prime and composite numbers, factors. Square and triangular numbers allowed students to investigate patterns by entering the data in a table and looking for a symbolic way to express the pattern.



Year 2/3/4
Students in year 2/3/4 have also been investigating reading large numbers and identifying the place value of digits within a number. We read a section from a book called “If” which scales down large data to something tangible so we are able to gain better understanding of how ‘big’ some things are. I asked the students to ask Mum or Dad to go out and find the Milky Way as the book scaled this down. One students replied ‘My mum or dad wouldn’t know anything about that”. Kids say the funniest things. We also investigated patterns by using our 100 charts and counters and counting on by 3’s, 4’s and 5’s. It’s wonderful to hear excited voices when they discover patterns.


Kindergarten and Year 1
As with any early years Mathematics classroom, time has been spent on counting, recognising and making numbers. We gave out the poly plugs to make dice patterns and one student told Miss Clancy “We played with the ear plugs and made 1 and 6”. Kindergarten students have been investigating numbers to 9 and using Make, Say, Write and Do with great success.

We have also looked at ordinal numbers. We watched a You Tube clip on ordinal numbers. Students were given an ordinal number card and were asked to get themselves in order. It was great to watch them helping others.

"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes."
~ Mickey Mouse