Today we had Mr V, a visiting maths specialist, in our classroom for Numeracy Block. He helped us investigate 'TIME'. There were also 8 other teachers in our room to watch Mr V teaching us.
For one of the activities, we were asked to draw a parent, a baby, a child in primary school, a grandparent and a teenager. We had to write what ages we thought they were and put them in order from youngest to oldest.
The movie below shows how Isaac, Patrick and Ben D responded to this task.
Mr V spent a whole hour in our room and we had lots of fun. We will have a Voicethread ready tomorrow to show all that we did and our thinking about 'TIME'.
(This activity gave an interesting insight into the children's perception of 'age'. There was a lively discussion during the 'sharing time' at the end of the lesson about how old a 'baby' is. The other stage that showed up some interesting ages was that of 'grandparents'.... I'm a bit worried about looking 80!
It was wonderful to have the opportunity to fully listen and observe the children at work and the Voicethread tomorrow will let you in on some of the rich conversation that took place.)
