Measurement

In P1/2 last week we were continuing our measurement activities. The class were to create a body garden using measurements from their body to create the different parts of the picture. The idea came from the NZ Maths Website.

Some of the students really impressed me during this activity and worked hard to measure different parts of their bodies to create flowers and insects in the garden. There were a few pupils who chose to miss out the step of measuring anything and were just sticking any old pieces of wool on their page. Although we discussed the fact that everything had to be measured but these students needed a reminder through the activity.

The students managed to make a lot of mess in the classroom and there was wool everywhere but we managed to clear it up well before Mrs Press came back to class!

We are continuing to make good progress on our height chart in the class. Mrs Whittet has been working hard with the pupils during her time with us.

Active Maths

In P1/2 we have been doing measurement. We're covering the Es&Os MNU 0-11a and 1-11a at the moment.



We are taking an active approach to this class and so far have covered a range of different activities.

In our first week we went outside and used our resources in the playground. The students found an object somewhere in the playground and then in groups ordered them from biggest to smallest.

Then the students worked with a buddy to compare the weight of their two objects. Our final outside activity was lining the children up from tallest to shortest, and we added a little bit of competition with girls against boys.

The students really enjoyed getting outside and I find that this encourages more engagement from the students and a lot more freedom for the pupils that they  might miss out on in the class.

Then we created our own block cities. This was an activity I saw on pinterest. The students were to use blocks and coloured paper to create 4 buildings on their page. They then had to re-measure using the blocks to fill in the information page that was stuck to the top of the page.

The ability of the students in this activity really surprised me and the students all showed a strong understanding of measure using non-standard units and created some fantastic pieces of work. They were all able to talk to me about which building was the tallest and which building was the smallest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have also been creating a class height chart. This was another activity from pinterest. Using our SLA time in class we are adding each student to the height chart. This is a great quick visual way for the students to be able to compare themselves with their classmates. We have already had some discussions about the information we can gather from the students who are up so far.

Our final activity so far has been measuring things around the class. The students really enjoyed this activity but their favourite by far was measuring each other. We had pupils lying all over the floor with their friends creating cube towers next to them so they could count how long they were.

We will need to move on to other measurement types soon and will continue to integrate active lessons for both volume and weight.