Anansi

We're sharing Anansi stories at the moment. Anansi is a man, Anansi is a spider. He is lazy and greedy, and likes to play tricks on the other animals.

Here's one of the books we've enjoyed, animated:



And here's another few we've enjoyed:

Toulouse Metropole Recycling Centre

This week, the children enjoyed a visit from the Toulouse Metropole Recycling Centre. Two visitors came to K3L class on Monday and K3G class on Friday to discuss the importance of recycling at home. The children sorted rubbish into the appropriate bins and looked closely at which materials can and can't be recycled in Toulouse.

Sports Day

The wet weather didn't stop us enjoying ourselves!

All sorts of hexagons

Children often think of a hexagon as being this:

However, there are lots of other hexagons. They don't have to be regular, as long as they have six sides. We set out to find as many as we could using just two pattern blocks. Look at all the ones we found!

The children did really well:

Getting hands on and specific; trying things out, even when you've no idea to start with.

Working within a constraint towards a target.

Learning from others but also trying new things.

Finding systematic ways to explore a possibility space.
Disrupting successful ways, to see if there's another way.

Thinking about and discussing what counts as same (rotations, reflections, different ways of constructing).
Getting used to the idea of "finding all the ways".
Seeing how 2 sides join to sometimes make two sides, sometimes one.

We found 17 ways of making a hexagon with two shapes:

Race to 100

Games are often a really great way to gain understanding in maths. Today, we've been playing Race to 100. The children rolled two dice. If they rolled a 2 and a 3, they could either put 2 threes on the track or 3 twos. Really good for gaining physical experience of multiplication!

On the Ning Nang Nong

We're beginning to get to know this song:

Recycled instruments

Look at these instruments from recycled materials!

Poetry in K3

In literacy, the children  focused their inquiry around poetry.
We looked at various poems about ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’.
The children wrote a class poem followed by writing their own
‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ poem.

Hexagons and triangles

This week we've been thinking about shapes.

First, the question, 'What other ways can you make the small yellow hexagon? Can you find all the ways?'

We all found lots of ways, and quite a few of us found that there are nine different ways!

Next we had a look at this shape, and asked, "If the white triangle is 1, what other numbers can you see?"

We used the pattern blocks to help us work it all out: