Wednesday 6th May - Maths

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 8:45am

Good Morning Reception!

First of all, I’d like to say a big WELL DONE to all of the children who participated in their maths learning earlier this week! Your teachers are so proud of you! J

Today let’s begin our maths learning with some familiar songs and some fluent-in-five questions! How quickly can you work them out? Can you get an adult to time you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc&t=17s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGetqbqDVaA

Today in our maths learning, we are going to belearning about CAPACITY. We have learnt a little bit about capacity before in reception, it sounds a little bit tricky, but it’s not! Capacity is the amount something can contain (a container, box, etc!)

Take a look at a funny capacity video/song below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4UC_StFhAk

In reception we have taught this before by looking at different measurements of water and rice in cups. We use the vocabulary of  ‘full’ ‘almost full’ ‘half full’ ‘empty’ ‘almost empty’ and ‘half empty.’

Below I have posted a list of activities linked to capacity that you can try at home:

Container activity: Provide children with different containers. Can they make their container full, nearly full, nearly empty and about half full. Can they find a container which holds more than their container? Can they find one which holds less?

Spoons activity: Provide your child with a bowl or cup and a selection of different sized spoons and ladles. Ask them to investigate how many small spoons it takes to fill their container. How many large spoons? How many ladles? Which sized spoon was the best? Why?

Outdoors activity: Provide a small box for children. Ask them to hunt for things to put inside. How many items can they fit inside? Can they find the prettiest leaf? A small pebble? What is the largest item you can fit inside your box?

Don’t forget to email in pictures of your maths learning! Enjoy! J