Using our maths during snack time

We have been using our maths skills to use a number of objects as currency to purchase our snacks.

Before we were able to buy what we wanted from our shop we went to the bank. Here we told the cashier what we had been learning and received special gems for our work. 

"My Daddy goes to work to get the pennies. Me and Mummy and (siblings) go to the shops to buy shoes"

After we have our gems we can go to the shop to choose what we want.

 We used one to one correspondence when counting how many gems we needed.
 Some of us counted gems for more than one item then counted how many the total came too.

Milk 5gems

Orange 3 gems

Banana 4 gems

Biscuit 2gems

Apples red or green 4gems 

Water 1gem

International Mud Day

WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL MUD DAY?

On June 29th Sparklers celebrated International Mud Day! A day where children, adults, and organizations across the globe get muddy to raise awareness about the importance of nature for children. From mud kitchens and digging pits to mud pies and mud art there is an array of activities that can ignite children’s imagination.

Our champion Dads

Our Dads are all champions.

Happy Father's Day 

This week the children have spent time together talking about their Dads and Grandads. We have looked at their similarities and differences in personality and looks.

"My Daddy"

"My Dad fixes things and has a big van when he goes to work"

"Daddy plays with me" 

"I help my Grandad doing his garden and Grandma gives me biscuits"

Happy Birthday to the Queen

Today we have been to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday with our friends and family at a village event at St John's Church.

"Do I look like the Queen?"

Despite the rain we ate our picnic indoors. We each chose something that we liked to take with us to share.

After lunch we watched the children from the two village schools perform songs, play instruments, dance and recite poetry. We joined in singing and flying our flags.

Thank you to Pilling Parish Council for inviting us to your celebration.

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Sparklers display at the Over Wyre Art Display

St John's Church are hosting a display of art from local artists and schools. Sparklers have been invited to have a display for the weekend.

We have used part of our community project to display what we see in Pilling.

The exhibition is held at

 

 St John's Church, School Lane, Pilling, PR3 6AR

 

Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th June 2016, 10am-4pm

"All Aboard"

 The children have built their own train and using their imagination have travelled to The Lake District, Thomas world, The Zoo, the beach and a party which meant we needed to wrap presents before going.

 

Even though going on a train journey was something not many of the children had done they soon shared ideas of what they needed and what would happen.

 

We needed a driver, a horn blower and the person to collect all the tickets ( the whole learning journey was extremely important, at one point no one could get through nursery door without a ticket!)

 

"I'm the driver and X blows the horn when we go in the tunnel"

 

"This is where you can go on the train"

 

Every journey meant a picnic of fruit, sandwiches and drinks.

 

Next half term we will be looking at holidays and the world. If you have any old holiday brochures please can you send them in for us to use. Thank you.

 

Shape, Space and measure

In maths we have been thinking about capacity, weight, length and height in shape, space and measure.


The younger children have been using tools to fill and empty containers using language such as 'full' 'empty' and 'more'. In looking at weight we looked at heavier and lighter user our large scales.

The older children have been estimating (guessing how many) and counting how many spoons, cups, jugs or handfuls it takes to fill different shaped containers. Some children recognised the different numbers on the scales and containers.



Sequencing how to plants seeds.

 

 

The skills learnt were used in planting our seeds and measuring their growth. The children estimated how much compost they would need for pots and tubes, with some saying they hadn't guessed enough so would need so many more.

 







As soon as our sweet peas started to grow through the compost we used the tape measure to measure how tall the plants were, recognising the number and remembering we need to start at 0. We are hoping that before the summer holidays they will be as tall as the big metre ruler with lots of lovely smelling flowers.