Learning to be a good loser!

Take 25 hoops and a bunch of children. Put the hoops on the ground in a long squiggly line with half of the children at each end. 

After 'Ready, set, go,' the leader of each line starts jumping through the hoops to get to the other end. .

When the two jumpers meet, they do 'rock, paper, scissors'  to see who continues and who returns to the back of their teams line. As soon as the loser returns to the back of their line, the next jumper sets off to meet the opposition. 

The first one to get to the end of the line wins for their team!

This fast moving game allowed everyone to repeatedly experience winning and losing, and to learn to deal with changes of fortune, without getting upset!!  It also got the heart rate up and encouraged the children to cheer on their teams members. Bring on more sunny days!

Let me count the ways!

This week we have been working on maths problems that have more than one answer and sharing with others how we got our answer. We have also been writing equations to express  our mathematical ideas.

Today our problem was: 
There are two caves. There are 10 bears. How many bears might be in each cave if the bears all seek shelter in one or other of the caves?

Our caves were yoghurt pots and our bears plastic but we had lots of fun working out all the possible combinations of the bears in the caves. How many can you think of??