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Tag: Maths Week (Page 1 of 2)
In Junior Infants for maths week, we had fun making 2d shape pictures. We used 2d shapes to make pumpkins. We made patterns using bears, lolly sticks, counters. We played maths puzzle games. We played counting games on Seesaw. We learned about capacity when making our witches potions and we sorted out the different Autumn objects in the sand area. Have a look below at some of our activities.
What a busy month October has been. We started the month celebrating First Holy Communion in St. Josephs church. Two children from the Ark made their Communion and we had a wonderful day. Congratulations to all the children from 3rd Class.
Communion Art
We celebrated First Holy Communion in class the following Monday with a pizza party. We also two birthdays this month and enjoyed lots of chocolate cake!
We needed to get up and active after all those treats so we set up some circuits for P.E and went for some lovely Autumn nature walks and lovely colorful Autumn leaves.
Coillte in partnership with the Tree Council of Ireland and Spar gifted a Wild White Cherry Tree sapling to the school in honor of National Tree Week. The children from the Ark planted it in courtyard 3 and will transfer it to the green area in the school when it is big enough. We will take great care of it.
We were also quite busy with our school work this month and enjoyed new reading activities, visits to the Library and Math’s Week! We got busy with interactive whiteboard math activities and enjoyed the Math’s Trail organised by Ms Kelly.
The best part of the month was preparing for Halloween! We made lots of beautiful decorations, Tea light candle holders, carved pumpkins, enjoyed Halloween sensory activities and dressed up! So many scary Ghosts and Zombies and Werewolves!
That’s it for this month, looking forward to seeing what November brings!
October was an exciting month in Junior Infants. We enjoyed learning the story “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”. We had great fun acting out the story in our Bear’s cave. We used our wellies to go through the grass, water, mud, forest and snow. We designed our own cave and then made it using Lego blocks.
For our Autumn theme, we went on an Autumn walk and collected leaves. We hid leaves, conkers, pine cones and apples in the sand tray and then sorted them into four groups. We made a leaf collage using tissue paper and hedgehogs using leaves.
We had maths week in October and we enjoyed getting into height order in the classroom. Melik is the tallest and Jovana is the shortest in our class.
For Halloween, we dressed up and went apple bobbing and catching apples on a string. We took the seeds out of pumpkins. We went for a Halloween dance in the hall with Senior Infants. We made spiders and pumpkins using paper plates. We made witches potions in the water area and sorted spiders, eye balls and snakes into groups. We talked about containers that were full, half full and empty. We had a great month in Junior Infants.
Once again, well done to all children who took part in solving the maths questions from yesterday. There were 9 triangles to be found in the junior problem, Sunday was the day Amy received her 11th marble on and altogether there was 6 handshakes. The following children earned themselves some stamps/dojo points for coming to room 4 with the correct answers:
Junior Problem:
1st Class: Mariam – 3 stamps
1st Class: Brooke – 2 stamps
Middle Problem:
3rd Class: Ashley – 3 dojo points
3rd Class: Mirolla – 2 dojo points
2nd Class: Stephen – 1 stamp
Senior Problem:
6th Class: Charlie – 3 dojo points
5th Class: Lakisha – 2 dojo points
5th Class: Oliwia – 1 dojo point
Maths Problem Number 4
Junior Problem
There are 2 witches in a classroom. 3 more witches walk in. How many witches are there in the classroom now?
Middle Problem
Freya’s spell needs 20 flowers. 9 flowers are blue, 5 are yellow and the rest are red. How many flowers are red?
Senior Problem
There are 38 people on a bus. At stop A, half of the people get off and 5 get on. At stop B, a third of the people get off and 3 get on. How many people are now on the bus?
Remember to bring your answers to room 4
Room 12 took on some interesting challenges using the Izak 9 Maths concept boxes.
Well done to everyone for attempting yesterday’s maths problems, a great effort was put in by all. Dojo points/stamps can be awarded to the following:
Middle Problem:
1st Class: Brooke – 3 stamps
3rd Class: Hannah – 2 stamps
Senior Problem:
5th Class – Oliwia – 3 dojo points
5th Class – Miya – 3 dojo points
4th Class – Daria – 3 dojo points
(all receiving 3 points due to effort & determination put in to complete the difficult honeycomb puzzle)
Solution to the honeycomb puzzle, supplied by Miya!
Maths Problem Number 3:
Junior Problem:
How many triangles can you find in this picture?
Middle Problem:
Amy was given a marble on Tuesday.
She was given two more marbles every day after that.
Name the day did she got her 11th marble on?
Senior Problem:
‘The Handshake Puzzle’
Amy, Liam, Ciara and Luke meet up. Each person shakes hands with every other person once. How many handshakes are there in total?
Remember to bring your answers to Room 4
Well done to all the boys and girls who attempted our first maths problem of Maths week. The following children earn themselves some stamps/dojo points for being the first, second and third children with the correct answer to each problem, from their level:
Junior Problem:
Senior Infants: Aidan & Gabriella – 3 stamps
Middle Problem:
4th Class: Igor – 3 dojo points
4th Class: Shannon – 2 dojo points
3rd Class: Hannah – 1 dojo point
Senior Problem:
5th Class: Patricia – 3 dojo points
5th Class: Yeamin – 2 dojo points
5th Class: Matthew – 1 dojo point
Question Number 2:
Junior Question:
Noah saw 12 legs walk by into the Ark. How many creatures could he have seen? How many different answers can you find?
Middle Question:
Try to complete the magic square below. Don’t use the same number twice in the square and the numbers in each row, column and diagonally must add up to 15.
Middle Problem – Magic Square
Senior Question:
Arrange the numbers 1-19 in the honeycomb grid below so that each row, and diagonal(both ways) adds to 38. You can only use each number once and every number must be used.
Senior Problem – Honeycomb Grid
Remember to bring your answers to Room 4
