Friday 18th October

For a start, in our maths lesson today, we were given a plastic wallet containing 466 in Base 10 (using a combination of units, tens and hundreds). Once we had our wallets, our next job was to find a partner to play ‘rock, paper, scissors’ against then the two of us had to agree on how much we were playing for, either a unit, a ten or a hundred. The winner would then be given the agreed amount by the loser and both of us would go and find someone new to play against.

When we got to the point that we had 10 of one particular piece of Base 10 (units, tens or hundreds) then we had to exchange these. For example, if I collected 10 hundreds I could then go to the front and swap my hundreds for a thousand cube.

The game ended when one of us lost all of our Base 10 and at this point we counted up to see who had the most and was therefore the winner.

Friday 11th October

On Thursday we concentrated on why the Vikings became explorers instead of just staying in Scandinavia where they were from. We focused on one of the reasons which is that the Vikings were big on trading precious items and, in order to do this, they had to travel all over Europe in order to find people to trade with. The grid below shows some of the items they used to trade.

silver	silk	spices
wine	jewellery	glass
pottery	honey	tin
wheat	wool	wood
iron	fur	leather
fish	walrus ivory	slaves

To help us experience what it was like to be a Viking trader, we pretended to be Vikings and played a trading game. Each Viking (one of us) had a sheet with the precious items above on it. Each Viking picked out 18 items from the bag. They ticked off the items they had managed to pick out and looked to see what they needed and what they could afford to trade. They travelled around the room looking for other Vikings who would trade with them what they needed. The first Viking to collect one of every item called out ‘bingo!’ and was the winner.

 

Friday 4th October

In the hall, we made two giant number lines to 1000 using bead strings and Base 10. Two children at a time came and stood by the end of a giant number line, I rolled three 9-sided dice to generate a 3-digit number and then the children had to race to see who could find the number on their giant number line first!

When we got back to class, we made a vertical number line to 10,000 using the thousand Base 10 cubes. We put a number line to 10,000 question on the board and used our vertical number line to help us answer it.