Tea party

Today we were so excited to see that Alice had come into school and left us some yummy cakes to halve. The children decided that it would be a great idea to eat them but when we shared them out the children realised that there wasn't enough. This prompted a discussion of how it wasn't fair and promoted the language such as 'half them' and 'share equally'. One child explained to the class that we need to make sure that each piece needs to be the same size. The children with the cakes came to the front of the class to halve them and then gave them to a friend that didn't have one. One child in the class cannot have cake, so we spoke about how we can halve other things such as sweets. As we tried to halve a Flump marshmallow the children knew that the knife wasn't working and suggested that pulling it would work instead.



After the lesson, the children continued to develop their skills with halving by using the playdoh. Some children came outside to make a tea party in the house. The children shared their ideas and collected the resources they needed to make a sign, cakes and pin the tail on the donkey!