We are exploring different ways to make the number 6. We are learning that it doesn’t matter how we arrange a group for 6 the total will always be 6!
We have been exploring the composition of five through the song 5 little speckled frogs. We know that we can make 5 in lots of different ways and use the sentence stem 5 is made of ...
The children made there own game of knocking down the tower. We counted how many bricks fell and if they knocked them all down they got a point. Which we recorded on the whiteboard. When then counted the totals to see who was the winner.
During our maths sessions we have been ordering, subitsing and exploring the composition of 5. We are noticing that the next number is one more.