Maths Monkey had a question for us, ‘Can we count things that we can’t see or touch?’ We demonstrated to Maths Monkey that this is possible. We counted the beats of a drum, the stomping of feet and the clapping of hands (up to 5). Then, we explored how we can accurately count things that are really big and can’t be moved, for example the doors, windows and sheds within our classroom area. Maths Monkey made some mistakes though and we had to remind him of the ingredients for accurate counting. These included seeing that the last number in the count tells us how many and that we must only count each object, action or sound once and once only.
We made Kindness Crowns linking to both our phonics work (k today and c yesterday) and the theme of raising money to help others. We talked about how we can show kindness and decorated our crowns, making sure that we did not have more than 5 of each image by applying our skills of accurate counting. We played dice games- rolling the dice and adding the corresponding number of beads to our string.
We ended our day with a superheroes theme in PE. We practised working collaboratively and listening carefully to instructions while playing parachute games together.