Our learning intention in Maths this week was to practise our ‘one to one counting’, ensuring we count accurately and to count by 10s to 100 and beyond.
Everyone was very excited to be using ‘magic beans’ for counting. As a whole grade, we firstly filled the outline of the giant’s hand with magic beans. Then the children made a prediction, or a ‘clever guess’, of how many magic beans were in the giant’s hand. After that the children proceeded to count all the beans, grouping them into 10s. We did lots of counting by 1s, 10s and even 100s to reach the total amount of 407 magic beans.
The children then individually had a go at filling their own outline of their hand with magic beans, ensuring they made a prediction first before counting accurately.
During ‘Share Time’, the mathematical language used and the discoveries made by the children were truly impressive. Well done Preps!
‘Our hands are exactly the same size because we have the same amount of magic beans.’
‘You have the lowest number because you have the smallest hand.’
‘My hand is bigger than yours by 10 magic beans.’
Everyone was very excited to be using ‘magic beans’ for counting. As a whole grade, we firstly filled the outline of the giant’s hand with magic beans. Then the children made a prediction, or a ‘clever guess’, of how many magic beans were in the giant’s hand. After that the children proceeded to count all the beans, grouping them into 10s. We did lots of counting by 1s, 10s and even 100s to reach the total amount of 407 magic beans.
The children then individually had a go at filling their own outline of their hand with magic beans, ensuring they made a prediction first before counting accurately.
During ‘Share Time’, the mathematical language used and the discoveries made by the children were truly impressive. Well done Preps!
‘Our hands are exactly the same size because we have the same amount of magic beans.’
‘You have the lowest number because you have the smallest hand.’
‘My hand is bigger than yours by 10 magic beans.’