KomodoJane

A really nice topical maths challenge for kids here! (And some fun ways to find out the circumference of a circle!)

Forgot to mention this competition for kids to win a chess set - we're hoping to start learning how to play it over summer to give us focusing and strategy superpowers 💪 *Includes some of our kids' crazy chess piece designs to spark ideas...

If you aren't a chess-playing family #WorldChessDay is a great excuse to get started. There are lots of good things about learning to play as a family, like modelling dealing with frustration, benefits of practice etc. Highly recommended!

To save you the dramatic read through, the answer is: not that much in the grand scheme of things. 😎 tes.com/news/heres-how-much-…

Here's hoping we can all have a chilled summer. Well done everyone. What a team effort it's taken to get us all to this stage 🙌👍

Starting today and running all week.

You’ll notice several different outfits in this guide to crafting a clock for learning to tell time - this is because many days were spent making different trial clocks until we finally nailed it. 👊💪

Love this - you can find maths for kids everywhere. Setting the table is a great example as it teaches the concept of one-to-one correspondence. Got some more ideas for starting very young kids here bit.ly/2VXSGIY and these can be adapted as they grow...🌱🌳

My two massively struggled with learning how to tell the time - maybe because we don’t really use analogue clocks/watches any more? Anyway, here’s a guide specially for parents to help you help your kids with this tricksy little topic.

Household harmony - something to aim for 👀

Experiments with water - designing a boat that floats and counting how many coins it holds before it sinks. (Ignore the distracting battle scene on the ‘boat plan‘ and the Lego which works its way in to everything...)

Love this- my two get really frustrated when they don’t get things ‘right’ immediately, but I try to tell them that they’re like explorers, or detectives, trying to find the answer and that everything they try is helping them get closer. (It even works sometimes... 🕵️‍♂️)

Always so interesting to hear @DrVicSimms talking about her research around young children and the influences on maths skills👌

Calendar reminder set for this⏰

We've got one coming 7 in a month or so - how lovely it would be to have something like this to look back on...

Tried and tested maths #zoomgames. We had a lot of fun trying these out. Great way to #stayconnected and learn.

My son went through a phase with his reading where his skills were developing rapidly but he hadn't the confidence to read "normal" storybooks. @ReadingChest was great to build his skills and confidence. #readingskills #primaryschool