Ms.Brunner

It was lovely to see so many families seeing our CPA approach at parent consultation and in action in the classrooms at ‘Sharing our learning’:

Welcome back to our Mental agility program and our new focus on violet and

MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION, FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, PERCENTAGES, PROPORTION and RATIO:

Please find attached activities we focus on in school.

Please can you support your child’s learning and practise these at home too:

Second Level 7 Violet Multiplication and Division; Fractions Decimals and Percentages Download

Practising the connection between multiplication and division:

We are working hard on applying our learning by using word problems including multiplications and division:

Lots of practise to understand the link between fractions, decimals and percentages:

Many opportunities to use concrete resources when focusing on ratio and proportion:

Please also look out for games and home work tasks set on

A brilliant website, explaining many concepts we focus an in school and fantastic opportunities to consolidate learning!

https://go.educationcity.com/

We look forward to sharing some strategies and photos with you from school soon!

We will be working on lots of equal groups and equal shares until the holidays!

If you have any questions please come and see Ms.Brunner anytime.

Always happy to help! 🙂

Primary 1/ 2 Blog, Primary 3 Blog, Primary 4 Blog

first level MENTAL AGILITY and multiplication and division

11/14/202311/14/2023 Ms.Brunner

It was lovely to see so many families seeing our CPA approach at parent consultation and in action in the classrooms at ‘Sharing our learning’:

Welcome back to our Mental agility program and our new focus on violet and

MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION, FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, PERCENTAGES, PROPORTION and RATIO:

Please find attached activities we focus on in school.

Please can you support your child’s learning and practise these at home too:

First Level 7 Violet Multipliaction and Division Download

Here are some ideas of how to practise at home:

Making EQUAL GROUPS:

Examples of EQUAL SHARES:

Please also look out for games and home work tasks set on

A brilliant website, explaining many concepts we focus an in school and fantastic opportunities to consolidate learning!

https://go.educationcity.com/

We look forward to sharing some strategies and photos with you from school soon!

We will be working on lots of equal groups and equal shares until the holidays!

If you have any questions please come and see Ms.Brunner anytime.

Always happy to help! 🙂

Primary 1 Blog, Uncategorized

early Mental Agility – multiplication and division

11/14/202311/14/2023 Ms.Brunner

It was lovely to see so many families seeing our CPA approach at parent consultation and in action in the classrooms at ‘Sharing our learning’:

Welcome back to our Mental agility program and our new focus on violet and

MULTIPLICATION and DIVISION!

Please find attached activities we focus on in school.

Please can you support your child’s learning and practise these at home too:

Early Level 7 Violet Multipliaction and Division Download

Here are some ideas of how to practise at home:

Making patterns:

Find some items such as stationary, pasta shapes or toys and make EQUAL GROUPS:

SHARING EQUALLY:

Please also look out for games and home work tasks set on

A brilliant website, explaining many concepts we focus an in school and fantastic opportunities to consolidate learning!

https://go.educationcity.com/

We look forward to sharing some strategies and photos with you from school soon!

We will be working on lots of equal groups and equal shares until the holidays!

If you have any questions please come and see Ms.Brunner anytime.

Always happy to help! 🙂

Language Class, Primary 1 Blog, Primary 1/ 2 Blog, Primary 3 Blog, Primary 4 Blog, Primary 5 Blog, Primary 6 Blog, Primary 7 Blog

maths week 2023

10/10/202310/08/2023 Ms.Brunner

What an exciting maths and numeracy week we had! 🙂

Look for yourself:

Launching maths week with a whole school assembly and an Ipad challenge all about PLACE VALUE

Royal Mile learners buddying up and completing a playground challenge all about

TELLING THE TIME:

Maths walks and more outdoor learning:

Outing to the MONEY MUSEUM:

and lots of positive feedback about activities pupils enjoyed…

such as QR code online games and singing number songs in different languages 🙂

And now to the big reveal of the PLACE VALUE RIDDLE:

and the answer is…

Already looking forward to

next year – 2024! 🙂

Primary 5 Blog, Primary 6 Blog, Primary 7 Blog

Mental Agility Second level

10/02/202309/29/2023 Ms.Brunner

Hi and welcome to the second section of our MENTAL AGILITY rainbow this term!

Until Christmas our school will focus on ADDITION and SUBTRACTION!

Please find attached activities children work on in class.

We would really appreciate your support in practising them at home too!

Second Level 6 Indigo Addition and Subtraction Download

One of our main aims is for children to be competent with numbers.

Pupils are introduced to a new mathematical concept through the use of concrete resources (e.g. fruit, Dienes blocks etc). When they are comfortable solving problems with physical aids, they are given problems with pictures – usually pictorial representations of the concrete objects they were using.

Then they are asked to solve problems where they only have the abstract i.e. numbers or other symbols. Building these steps across a lesson can help pupils better understand the relationship between numbers and the real world, and therefore helps secure their understanding of the mathematical concept they are learning.

Most Second level learners are ready to move on from concrete materials and focus on pictorial and abstract methods. An increasing understanding of number allows transitioning through the approaches.

It is vital to have a variety of strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Here are some examples: