It’s Maths Week this week at Inskip and we’re planning to celebrate, develop and enjoy our maths skills through lots of different activities.

In Lower School this morning we launched our week by thinking about Growth Mindset and how having a ‘can do’ attitude to all our learning makes us happy, confident and successful learners. The picture book ‘The Dot’ by Peter Reynolds is a brilliant story about a little girl called Vashni who believes she can’t draw. Through clever encouragement from her teacher she finds confidence and then helps encourage others. 
 

Today I set the children a challenge to make a paper chain and join it with dot stickers giving them a piece of coloured paper, scissors, dots but no instructions. They did a great job. Then we compared the results of the children’s efforts and talked about why they were different lengths. Next I challenged the children to make a second chain which had to be longer than the first. We discussed how they could achieve this. They all smashed it!

Afterwards they joined their two chains, compared lengths and estimated how many times the chain (once all their chains are joined as one) will stretch across our classroom. We will hang it from the ceiling over the next few days and discover the result!

Amazing learners today Lower School, well done!

The Dot LS