Our minibeast hunt!

The children had great fun this afternoon with Mrs Field. They went on a minibeast hunt around the school and found out what minibeasts were lurking in different habitats. Using the magnifying glasses and hand held microscopes the children identified the minibeasts then using their maths skills they recorded what they found in a tally chart. Later in the week they will be using the 2Simple computer programs 2Count and 2Graph to put their results into a graph.

Place Value

This morning we were learning all about place value. We looked at single, 2-digit and 3-digit numbers before having a go at using the place value cards to make different numbers. Each card had a thumbprint on the bottom right corner so we knew where to place the cards. We found out that the highest hundreds place value card was 900, the highest tens place value card was 90 and the highest unit place value card was 9! We are becoming very good at spotting patterns in our number work!! If you would like a set of place value cards to have at home, there are templates that can be printed out from http://www.senteacher.org/worksheet/49/PlaceValueArrowCards.html and there are games using place value on http://www.topmarks.co.uk/place-value/place-value-charts 

Weekend homework

I hope that you have all received the homework which was to find out facts about their chosen animal. Read, understand and write facts in their own words.

Here are some links to help you:
http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/files/woodland_animal_facts.pdf
http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/
http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/woodland_manage/whatis2.htm
http://www.npt.gov.uk/PDF/Woodland_Lesson_2__Creatures_in_a_woodland_environment.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ne

wsround/animals

Laptops

Today we had our first go on the school laptops! We were all given our own password to log on then we were shown how to find the school blog from the school website. Using the computer program 2Simple, we then explored the variety of games. After we had became familiar with some of the games, we were then shown how to create a pictogram of favourite woodland creatures.