MATHS: SCALE

Ben had the best time in Maths today, using a scale ruler and making all the furniture out of colour relevent pieces of card to go on the scale drawing of our classroom.  He thought this was a fantastic task to undertake :)  He really enjoyed seeing everything fit perfectly into the class and has a really good understanding now of why scale is relevent.  This maths task couldn't have been possible without the help of Steve (thank you honey) who provided a fantastic scale drawing of the class at 1:50 and then provided the appropriate scale ruler for me to translate to Ben!

Pollyanna was doing her maths work at the same time of course but she was less than impressed with her tasks given the fun Ben was having with his ... sorry Pollyanna but sometimes Maths just isn't cracked up to be much fun, especially when you are learning to order numbers from 1 to 100 and the same examples keep popping up.

For some reason at the moment I can't attach photos to my post ... honey I may need your help!

MATHS: SHAPE DESCRIPTIONS LEARNING GAME

Freshly laminated cards ready to be cut out!

Cut out and ready to be sorted!

Today I downloaded a brillant game to help with kids learning to describe shapes according to their unique features (faces, edges, corners or vertices). My five year old, Pollyanna, has learnt the shapes and now it is time for her to describe a shape in terms of its qualities and this game is a perfect starter to learning the describing terminology.  I found it at this brilliant UK Primary Resources website that has fantastic worksheets aswell.  The thing I find very easy about the site is that it caters for all primary age groups and the site is really well set up for easily navigating your way round, definately one for the favourites folder!

MATHS: WHICH NUMBER IS LARGER?

I am using this worksheet with Pollyanna at the moment so she understands the relationship between numbers 0-30.  Its a really good exercise that provides meaning to a number and how big it is. I have left the top of the worksheets blank so that you can use them to find either the smallest number or the largest number for each series provided.  When they are first beginning to understand numbers and their order, number lines become really handy.  This website here has some great ones that you can just download instantly Sparkle

Until I discover how to attach files to my posts you will just have to email me for each worksheet and I can email it back to you :) Sorry about not having them available to just download instantly yet. HATE THAT as I am an instant gratification kind of girl!!

Anyway todays worksheet is Which Number is Bigger 0-30.  Email me if you would like a free file of this worksheet Kirsty