Watsonia Campus Learning

An overview of what has been happening within Lower Primary over the past two weeks.

Showcase

The Showcase was fantastic and testament to the excellent work our students do across all areas of the curriculum.

Mathematics

In the area of Mathematics students have revisited and revised their knowledge and skills in the area of addition. It is not always about getting the “answer” but understanding that addition means pushing two groups together and that the group is then bigger. All activities have been supported by concrete materials that students can manipulate to develop their understanding of addition.

Each student is on an individual journey of developing addition skills and has been involved in activities that are targeted at their point of learning. These activities have included:

Using verbal action stories that involved joining for example, there were 3 ducks in the pond. 2 more ducks flew into the pond. How many ducks now? These stories were supported by concrete materials, pictures, drawings
Using concrete materials to physically combine two groups of objects and count all.
Add one more to a group and count the total
Verbalising the joining process using the language “and & altogether”
Using two different coloured counters on a tens frame to represent that a number is made up of parts.
Solve addition problems using count on from the largest number as a strategy for example 5 plus 4. Put the 5 in your head and count on- 6,7,8,9

Students have also investigated capacity by comparing the capacities of containers using informal units for example, a cup full, a jar full, a hand full. They have made comparisons to decide which container holds more. The language of capacity has included more or less, full, half full, empty.

Lower Primary

Watsonia Campus · 13 Nov 2017

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