I set the children an open-ended problem solving maths challenge…
When they entered the room they discovered a little teddy on his own on the flirt holding a tiny piece of paper with a message
Hello, my name is Little Borris, my home was destroyed by Goblins. Sunlight hurts my eyes. Please could you help me?
The children were intrigued and quickly thought of the idea that they could help him by making him a new home! We talked about our previous learning on 3D shape.
A big cardboard box was very helpful in helping the children to explore nets of 3D shapes – we took it outside and flattened it to work out what shapes and how many made it into a solid cuboid.
Lily took on the challenge of making a new home for little Borris, whilst I presented J with a pile of strop waffle biscuits… Could he design and make a present package for them!
Urrr… YES!!
Lily decided to make a cylinder and J a pentagonal prism. They applied problem solving skills to make it the right size, what their net would look like and how to contribute it into a 3D shape.
Both were successful on their mission!
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The children were learning how to use speech marks in their writing.
Together we watched a clip from The Secret Garden.
after looking at the rules of speech we then studied an extract of speech from the book where spiteful Mary meets the dreamy Dicken and highlighted where we found the rules of speech.
We made our own Speech marks out pipe cleaners to help us remember how to recognise and use them in our writing. To warm us up we played a game in the garden. A flock of sheep had escaped so the children had to herd them all back in. Some of the sheep were wolves in sheets clothing and must not be put in the sheep pen. The real sheep had to be kept in the pen made with speech marks.
The children were now confident with the rules of speech and had learnt a new skill to use in a speed writing exercise. A sticker was used to mark each time I saw the rules of speech being applied.
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