Today we had Red Nose Day at our school to help raise money for the charity Cure Kids. We dressed in red to show our support!
Look how cute we are with our noses painted : )
Friday 24 August 2012
Monday 20 August 2012
Maths Thinking Groups
One day each week our students work in their 'thinking groups' which are made up of students with varying stages in Maths. Our question today was:
Miss Breen had to bake a lot of cupcakes for the SPCA's cupcake fundraiser. She made five batches of pink cupcakes, two batches of blue cupcakes and three batches of green cupcakes. there were 12 cupcakes in each batch. How many cupcakes did she bake?
To begin with Miss Breen had to explain what a batch was! It is very important for our tamariki to learn Maths related vocabulary and well as numbers and strategies!
Each group worked through the answer together then shared back to the rest of the class. We have shown you how each stage answers the same question. If your child is stage 4, 5 or 6 you can see the development of thinking and use of strategies.
Stage 5: We used our addition to work out the answer. We worked out how many batches there were altogether then added the number of cupcakes inn each batch. We could do this by adding in twelves or we could use our knowledge of Place Value and add in tens first then add the ones to get our total of 120.
Stage 6: We use our multiplication and addition facts to work out how many cupcakes! We must know our multiplication facts in order to use this strategy!
Miss Breen had to bake a lot of cupcakes for the SPCA's cupcake fundraiser. She made five batches of pink cupcakes, two batches of blue cupcakes and three batches of green cupcakes. there were 12 cupcakes in each batch. How many cupcakes did she bake?
To begin with Miss Breen had to explain what a batch was! It is very important for our tamariki to learn Maths related vocabulary and well as numbers and strategies!
Each group worked through the answer together then shared back to the rest of the class. We have shown you how each stage answers the same question. If your child is stage 4, 5 or 6 you can see the development of thinking and use of strategies.
Stage 4: We needed to draw the groups of twelve to help us work out how many we had altogether. When we got our answers, we added them together by counting on to give us our cupcake total!
Jump Rope for Heart Day - Friday 17th August
On Friday our class participated in Jump Rope for Heart to help raise some money for the Heart Foundation.
We had spent weeks practising how to skip properly and to learn the trickier moves such as side by side and face to face!
We had ten stations to visit during our morning and spent seven minutes at each station which had everything from single skipping, buddy skipping to Double Dutch and we even watched an awesome skipping championship video from YouTube.
We were tired by the end of it but it was great fun!!
See some of us in action below:
We had spent weeks practising how to skip properly and to learn the trickier moves such as side by side and face to face!
We had ten stations to visit during our morning and spent seven minutes at each station which had everything from single skipping, buddy skipping to Double Dutch and we even watched an awesome skipping championship video from YouTube.
We were tired by the end of it but it was great fun!!
See some of us in action below:
Monday 13 August 2012
Maths Week 2012
This week is Maths week and we have lots of exciting things happening at our school!!
Everyday we have Maths problems to solve, on Tuesday we have a Maths quiz, on Wednesday we are sharing a Maths game or activity with a buddy class and we also have a chance to guess how many jelly beans are in our estimation jar!
Below are the answers we came up with for two of the maths problems today!
We are getting really good at this Maths stuff!
Everyday we have Maths problems to solve, on Tuesday we have a Maths quiz, on Wednesday we are sharing a Maths game or activity with a buddy class and we also have a chance to guess how many jelly beans are in our estimation jar!
Below are the answers we came up with for two of the maths problems today!
We are getting really good at this Maths stuff!
The question was: There are 50 people on a bus. At the first stop 30 people got off. At the second stop ten people got off. How many people were left on the bus?
Our Estimation Jar
Welcome to Term 3
We have been busy as usual so finally we have time to post. Below are some pictures of our Topic and Visual Art work. We have been making wet weather activities for our class using craft and new or recycled materials. We are making everything from puzzles to card games to a dolls house. We will post the photos as soon as we are finished so keep checking back!
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