Maths on the beach.

We spent a wonderful morning on the beach, even though it was very hot! The purpose of the outing was to introduce multiplication. We began by grouping the children themselves. They were then paired off and had to make groups on the sand. We introduced the multiplication sign and got each child to work out sums of their own. We were pleased at how well they grasped the new concept.

We then had a capacity rely. Each group had to firstly fill a 100ml yogurt container, they used this to fill a 500ml water bottle. Then they used the water bottle to fill a 2l milk bottle. Finally they had to fill a 5l container using the 2l water bottle. They had so much fun that they wanted to do it all over again.

By the time we left the beach we were so hot so we all had a quick dip in the school

, pool to cool off.