Money, Money, Money

It's maths week here at Charsfield and yesterday Jim, Joanne and Janet came along from Ipswich Building Society to help coordinate a money day.

Children from years 2, 3 and 4 were involved and learnt about the origins of money (it all started with a fisherman!), the different currencies around the world, how to save and the fact that money does not grow on trees! 

They played money bingo, money dominoes and made money boxes.  Class 2 teacher Miss Tuckwell said "It was a brilliant way for the children to gain a greater understanding and awareness of money, everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves."

 

Bowling was great fun

Class 1 went bowling this week and we had to do a lot of maths to work out the scores and add up how many pins we knocked over as we went along. What a surprise the bowling lanes were named after planets, we had Mercury and Venus.

Reception Children Working Hard

The Reception children work very hard to learn new skills. Here is a numeracy lesson where they were learning how to group items in order to count them accurately.

Maths week

We had a brilliant time last week with our 'Maths week'. So many activities were organised for us, from baking to seeing a performance from a visiting theatre group. Dennington joined us for a maths trail around the school and grounds and we went there for a 'Maths Olympics'! We had loads of fun designing and making our own maths games and we then invited the parents to come in, have a play and tell us what they thought. Have a look at the slide show below and I'm sure you'll see how much fun maths can really be!

Numeracy in Class One: 3D Shapes Lesson

Numeracy is always fun in Class One, but today we started learning about 3D shapes using some new equipment called 'Polydron' These are 2D magnetic shapes which link together to form 3D shapes. Can you name these shapes?