Cuisenaire Rods get their first outing

Today F was simply refusing to round 5's upward / or was he struggling with the concept of it? hard to tell.
We got out the Cuisenaire rods!
He had to play with them first, which was a little frustrating for me as we only had 3 questions left in today's maths unit.
But this is the joy of being at home - as well as doing all his maths in an australian accent, we just CAN take five minutes to play "minecraft" with the cuisenaire rods before using them as a concrete illustration for rounding upward!
Oh Joy!

p.s. little does he realise - he thinks he is making a colourful pattern - but he is actually finding number bonds to ten as i type!

that's something i had noted down to practice. He is doing it himself, yay!