We have been using Cuisenaire rods this week. Inky sent the class a letter asking the children to make different carriages for a train using the different colours. We compared the lengths and talked about what we were doing. We then moved on to finding equivalent amounts and today we wrote the sum for the same lengths.
E.g. 1 F (Flame) = 1 T (Tan) +1 W (White).
We are working more on this next week.
The children have been busy in their continuous provision. The boys set up the dolls’ house and put the fireman in their beds. They role played an ‘ice storm’ and made sure that after the firefighters had been to work that they slept in the beds. The children have also been making watches with the recycled materials. One child started making one on Wednesday and then all the children wanted to do it! I have seen numbers, pictures being attached, buttons drawn on and careful measuring to ensure the watches looked perfect!