This week in RDT we have explored time and the days of the week for our maths learning! We have been very busy doing lots of exciting activities to develop our understanding of this mathematical concept. Throughout the week, we shared some time-themed stories, which included Jasper’s Beanstalk, Five Minutes Peace and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
We also spent our week practising a song to help us remember the names of the days of the week and the order in which they come in. By the end of the week, the children were really confident in singing the entire song! If you would like to sing the song together at home this weekend, these are the lyrics:
Days of the week (clap, clap), days of the week (clap, clap), days of the week, days of the week, days of the week (clap, clap), There’s Monday and there’s Tuesday, there’s Wednesday and there’s Thursday, there’s Friday and there’s Saturday, and then there’s Sunday.
We worked as a team to create our own timetable of our week! We were really confident at recognising some of the key events and routines within each day. Many of us knew that we stay at home on Saturday and Sunday, and talked confidently about some of the things we do at the weekend.
Take a look at our week in RDT! You could ask your child if they can think of any other events that take place and when they happen. You could also make your own timetable of the week with the things you do as a family at home!
Some of us then created our own fantastic timetables whilst exploring in provision. We shared them with our friends and talked about the different events and when they take place.
When exploring in our outdoor provision, we set ourselves some exciting timed physical challenges! These included counting how long it took to cycle around the path on a bike and how many jumps we could do in 30 seconds. We experimented with different ways to record the timings on a whiteboard, using both numerals and marks to create a tally. This then inspired some of us to try again and attempt to get a better result!
This experience then inspired some of us to extend and develop our learning further, whilst incorporating our own interests. We worked together to use resources to create a ‘Deadly 60’ obstacle course, complete with dangerous animals underneath! We then took turns to travel across the course and counted together to time one another. We were really eager to become quicker and quicker!
For our storytelling experience this week, we used ‘Sam the Snake’ from our talk for writing story innovation as our main character. We worked together to share our own ideas and create a story squiggle entitled, ‘Sam’s Week’. We had some fantastic ideas for what Sam did on each day of the week and we applied what we had learned in maths this week to name the days of the week in the correct order! We laid down on our fronts and pretended to be Sam the snake writing his diary of the week as we created our own story squiggles, which is a fantastic way to develop both our gross-motor and fine-motor skills at the same time!
We have all really enjoyed exploring time this week for our maths learning! What will you do on Saturday and Sunday? We look forward to hearing all about it when we are back at school on Monday!