Over the course of the next couple of weeks in school, I intend to begin my work with the children. I haven’t really finished my reading yet, but I have a solid foundation to begin from – also I have the time available to me in school over these two weeks and after that it […]
I tried this with my current Year 6 group of 24 children to disappointing results. The children break the stick of 18 Multilink cubes, describe what they have done and put something on the sheet of paper that will show what their actions to the rest of the group. They were sat in two circles […]
Yesterday, I detailed how I was planning to use Cuisenaire Rods with half of my Year 6s to investigate and consolidate their knowledge of fractions. What I love about the photo above is that despite the general age of the sets we had in school, the rods looked like new… also, the lovely glimpse of […]
Tomorrow I intend to work with half of my Year 6 group, 12 children, on the included Cuisenaire Rods task from the handbook (an example of the type question we will look at is below). Georges Cuisenaire was teaching at his school in Thuin in Belgium when he invented these now famous rods as a […]
Having just finished my work with a bunch of Year 3 – who are far fussier than I remember – I feel quite pleased. They were able to build and complete the secret construction quicker and more accurately than I first hoped, they used a good range of language – next to, on top of, […]
Tomorrow, I work with Year 3, completing some of the activities that were so successful with Year 6. I plan to introduce the session with a secret construction, along similar lines to the one made at the start of last Wednesday’s lesson with Year 6 – a simple house like structure using only a couple […]