Today we used polydron to carry out an investigation with 3D shapes. First we predicted which shapes we could make from the squares, rectangles and triangles we had. Then we had a go. It was very tricky!
This week in Maths we have been exploring shapes. We began by sorting and naming as many 2-D and 3-D shapes as we could. We then focused on learning and using some key vocabulary: quadrilateral and vertex/vertices. We explored the properties of all 2-D shapes and then focused on learniing about patterns.
Today we learnt about symmetry and which shapes and symmetrical and which are not. Next week we are focusing more on 3-D shapes.
On Tuesday 17th December Year 2 held a very successful Healthy Snack Café. We have been working towards it all term by learning about food groups and what is and isn’t healthy. We chose our own recipes (we researched for ourselves using swiggle) using healthy ingredients like wholemeal flour, fruit, vegetables and honey instead of sugar.
We worked in groups and each group was responsible for making a different healthy snack. We went to Tesco and shopped for our ingredients! It was very exciting to try and find everything on our shopping list. We had to use our Maths skills to make sure we had enough money!
Back in school, we followed the recipes carefully to make the food. We learnt how to cut things safely and how to measure ingredients accurately.
We then made signs and set up our tables. We practised how much things would cost and how to give change if customers needed it. We also practised our selling and customer service skills!
The afternoon was a great success. Parents were very supportive and many spent a small fortune! All the people who came to our café were very impressed with our confident selling skills.
The very good news is that even though the café was mainly a celebration of our learning we also made just over 30! Thank you so much to all the parents and visitors who spent their money buying our healthy snacks. We are going to have a hard think about what to spend it on and then have a vote. We will let you know what we choose. Well done Toucans!
This week in Maths we are learning about division. We have practiced sharing counters to divide and then moving to the pictorial version of this by drawing circles to share sticks into in our books.
We are now moving on to recognising the link between division and multiplication. We can’t wait to show our parents what we have learnt next week!
Today we continued learning about fractions in maths. We explored which shapes could be split accurately into quarters and which could not. We then moved onto splitting numbers into quarters. We are getting very good at fractions!
In Maths we are exploring multiplication. We practiced sharing twelve counters into equal groups and finding different calculations.
Today we continued learning about the place value of numbers. We started with a paired challenge. Miss Williams gave us the number 54 and we represented it in lots of different ways.
Today in Maths we began exploring place value. We represented our numbers using dienes and practiced writing them and drawing them.
Today in Maths we started learning about place value using counters. We practised making different three digit numbers using them. We even had a try with numbers containing a zero. We had a very good first try!
During this afternoon’s Computing lesson with Mr Baddhan, Year 2 Toucans used Purple Mash’s 2Go to create different shapes using directions.
They were challenged to create two shapes, square and a rectangle, using different line colours. They used many right-angles for the square and rectangles.
Toucans already know that a right angle is an angle of 90°, as in a corner of a square.
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