We are learning to solve mathematical problems

This week we were learning to solve problems in different ways. Were looking at solving these problems about buying food and drink for Max's birthday party.

Keegan solved the first problem like this:

• 4X6 = 24 and costs $20
• 25 drinks costs $20

The second one is the best choice. You get more drinks for the same price. 

Keegan solved the second problem like this:

He said that for every $2 he can get five apples. Four two dollars give you the $8 so 4 groups of 5 will give you 20 apples. 

Great thinking and explaining, Keegan!

We are learning to balance by playing games

We have the opportunity to work with Coach Manu this term. This week we were learning to balance on one leg. She taught us to "glue" our knees together, use aeroplane arms and to look straight ahead when we are trying to balance. We also tried to balance for as long as possible while keeping a bean bag on our head. Playing musical dots was another way we developed our balancing skills. We had so much fun!

 

Easter bunnies

We were learning about repeated patterns when we created these lovely Easter  bunnies. Look how cool they are. 

 

House Spirit Day- 31 March 2017

House Spirit Mufti

There is only a week to go before it is House Spirit Day!

We are ready!

Alien Invasion

Learning can also be a little silly...

After having a 'visit' from ZEEK the alien and writing many of the words used on his planet, we drew pictures of other aliens. Here are a few of them. 

By Sefton

By Lizzie

Exploring space online

We were finding information on Mercury and Earth going online. We used the website called NASASpacePlace. We had to read the information and then choose where we could add the information on our sheets. We were also learning how to write our information using bullet points. 

To complete the activities, we had to use the learner dispositions:

• reflective (thinking about the information so we could add it to the correct area on our sheets)

• resilient (toughing it out because it took a long time and some of the words tripped us up)

• reciprocal (we worked in groups) 

• resourceful (we had to make decisions about how we would go about finding the information, using the information and how to solve problems).