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Numeracy

⏰ Revising Time- O Clock and Half Past ⏰

We have been working on revising our knowledge of time this week. We played games together on the board, we had to match the correct time to the corresponding clock face.  

πŸ’» Coding- Scratch πŸ’»

We have been working on our coding skills this week. We used scratch to make our characters move, speak and interact with another character. It was so much fun! We are going to keep developing our skills until we can create a game! 
 

Check out our videos below to see what we created! πŸ˜ƒ

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⏰ Time ⏰ 

We have been revising time this week with Miss Morrisey.
We used Playdough, bingo games, small clocks and paper to make o’clock times.

🌟 Numbers within 1000 🌟

We have been working on recognising numbers within 1000 this week.
🌟We played a game on the iPad called Place Value Basketball.
We had to match the correct ball to the hundreds, tens and units to score points. 

🌟 We played big number bingo with numbers to 1000

🌟 We matched number cards with numbers to 1000

🌟 100 Days of School 🌟

We celebrated 100 days of school this week! 100 fantastic days in Primary 3!
Mrs Cassidy is very proud of how well we have worked for the last 100 days! 
To celebrate 100 days we did a variety of games in PE based around the number 100. We made the number with our bodies, we ran in races to 100 and tried to score 100 points in our superhero game. 
We also painted a gumball machine with 100 gumballs inside it!

🌟 Skip Counting 🌟

We have been practising our skip counting using practical materials!

We have been working on counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s. 

βš–οΈ Topic- Balancing weights βš–οΈ

We worked in groups to find out how many cubes were the same weight as different classroom objects. We knew when the scaled balanced we had found the answer. 

🌟 Problem Solving- Estimation 🌟

We have been working on our estimation skills this week in our problem solving. 
We completed different activities: 

🌟We estimated how many finger prints would fill our snowman’s body and then filled him in with paint to find the answer. 
🌟 We estimated how many cubes high different objects in our classroom and tested to find the answer.

🌟 We estimated how many items were in different jars and baskets and then counted the objects to find the answer. 
 

πŸ“ Measuring in metres πŸ“

We measured different objects around our school to see how long or tall they were in metres! 
We worked in groups and recorded our data on our worksheets. 

🌟 Place Value 🌟

We have been working on place value this week in our number activities.

We played place value themed bingo, board games and interactive games on the iPads and laptops. 
 

🌟 The number before and after 🌟

We have been working on identifying the number before and after a given number within 100. We had to lucky dip a number using magnetic numbers and then write the number before and after on our whiteboards.

🚘 Cars in the Church Car Park 🚘

We counted the cars in the Church car park and made a tally chart in class to show the number of cars of each colour that we found. 

⭐️ Practical Subtraction 

We have been focusing on subtraction in our numeracy lessons. This week we have been using number frames, peg boards and Lego to help us answer subtraction questions.

πŸ“Š Playground Bar Chart πŸ“Š

We made a human bar chart in the playground! We first made a chart to show the eye colours of the pupils in our class and then created one to show our favourite colours. Mrs Cassidy asked us questions based on our place in the bar chart and what each line represented. 

πŸ”₯ Mental Maths Challenge πŸ”₯

We had a mental maths challenge this week as part of our work for Maths Week Ireland. We completed against each other to answer addition calculations as fast as possible. Seth came out on top as our mental maths champion after a fantastic display of speedy calculations in his head. Well done Seth!

✨ Ordinal Number ✨

This week in our problem solving lessons we have been working on ordinal numbers.
⚑️We ran races during PE and labelled ourselves from 1st to 20th.

⚑️We ordered toys from 1st to 10th 

⚑️ We played a game outside where we ran about and then had to line up in order of the card we had.

Ordinal Number Game

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😎 Addition Number Sentences 😎

We have been working on number bonds and addition this week in our mental maths and number work.
We made number sentences using magnetic letters!

πŸ‘» Spooky Symmetry πŸŽƒ

We had a go this week at creating symmetrical pictures using paint, some of us chose spooky characters like ghosts and pumpkins to get into the Halloween spirit. We also had some beautiful butterfly pictures!
We are continuing to work on symmetry in the next few weeks in our numeracy topic lessons!

🟣 πŸŸͺ 2d Shapes πŸŸͺ 🟣

We have been working on recognising 2d shapes in our numeracy topic lessons. Using pipe cleaners we constructed various 2d shapes and matched them to our shapes in the classroom. We also added post its with the names of the shapes and wrote the number of sides each shape had. After we used our LCD Sketchpads to draw each shape and label it with the correct name and number of sides.

πŸ’» Fruit Spat πŸ’»

We have been developing our ICT skills this week by playing an addition game on the laptops. We had to splat the correct fruit that had the answer to our sum.

🟑🟣🟑 Problem Solving: Patterns 🟑🟣🟑

 

We worked on completing patterns this week for our problem solving lessons.
🟑We completed colour and shape patterns in chalk in the playground.

🟣We completed patterns with blocks and materials in the garden play area. 
🟑We completed patterns with Lego.

 

πŸ’™ We are revising our numeracy skills πŸ’™

This week we worked on the numeracy skills we learned in P2. We are going to be focusing on number recognition, addition, subtraction and 2d shapes in the coming weeks so Mrs Cassidy gave us a taste of all the fun activities we will be doing in September!

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