Blog by Tag: maths | Carleton Green Community Primary School

1 minute pattern challenge

Last week we were exploring just how long a minute is and what we can do in 1 minute. Some children completed the 1 minute pattern challenge, to see if they could make a repeating pattern in just 1 minute! They used the 1 minute sand timers to help them.

Category: Ducklings

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*Doves' Class Measuring Lengths During Maths

This week in Maths, the children have been measuring objects in and around school. Once they accurately measured the objects, they then converted their measurements from metres to centimetres and from centimetres to metres. Check to see if your child can remember the calculation they need to do to…

Category: Doves

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Creating a repeating pattern on the computer

The children chose their own colours and shapes to create their own repeating patterns.

Category: Ducklings

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Making Easter Egg Patterns

We have had fun using objects from the Physical Shed to create our own Easter Egg repeating patterns. We worked together with our friends, talking about what resources we would use and how we would create our patterns.

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Capacity

In maths today we learnt about capacity and how many cups it would take to fill different containers. We also ordered different containers in order of their capacity. We enjoyed doing this lesson outside as it was a lovely afternoon.

Category: Robins

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Owls Big Bird Watch

This week in Owls we have had a fun week of learning based on bird watching.

We have researched and found out about many different types of birds and went out to spot as many as we could. We then wrote about what we saw. In Maths we created a tally of how many birds we saw in a period of time…

Category: Owls

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Owls Problem Solving

On Friday 17th January, Owls had a very active problem solving day. We worked in our teams to complete a jump challenge. In our teams we all had to jump, measure and record. We then had to solve problems using the data we collected. This involved converting cm…

Category: Owls

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Telling the time.

Herons are learning to tell the time. Today we learned and practised what each hand is for and where it goes to tell the time for; o'clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past.

We played a game of; "What's the Time Mr. Wolf?" with a difference. Each time had a different kind of movement;…

Category: Herons

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