Week 4 and 5

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We have been very successful in Maths in the last few weeks learning about addition and patterns.

On the first day of patterning the children created pattern and discovered there was a difference between a pattern and a beautiful design.  A pattern has a part that repeats.  This is known as a repeating element.

Following this success they learnt that you can describe a pattern using the alphabet.  They then went on to make simple ABAB patterns and then more complex assortments - ABCABC, AABBCAABBC and so on.

We have had fun representing addition with a lot of concrete materials and can do turn arounds too!

 At the end of our learning the children demonstrated their learning by working together to make addition chains.

We have been practising counting.  So far we have

counted in 1s to 100

counted in 2s

counted in 5s

counted in 10s

counted backwards in 1s and 10s

There are loads of great You Tube songs that help us.  Some have advertisements that I skip so I cannot    

post those.  You can watch them at home with your children and skip the ads for them.  Our favourite is  

I Can Count to 100 by Harry's Kindergarten.