FAIR SHARE!

Macy and Julia were practising division on the whiteboards.

Some serious thinking is going on here!

We have some pretty flash kids in our room!  Here are a couple of photos of them hard at work. 

 Well done guys!

MAX WITH A MOUSTACHE!

Oh Max!  You silly sausage. 

Thanks for giving us all a laugh today!

FRACTIONS, FRACTIONS!

We are so busy at Maths time at the moment. We have been learning about Multiplication and we started Division today.  In our Knowledge Workshops, we have been learning about FRACTIONS!  Here are a few pictures of what we got up to today...

Here's Sam cutting a picture from a magazine in HALF!

Here's Alex writing the symbol (1/2) for HALF!

Here are some kids playing FRACTIONS BINGO!  They have to match the pizza piece to the fraction symbol. 

Here's Macy and Matty challenging each other to a game of FRACTION FLASH.  They are shown a fraction and they have to be the first person to call out the name of the fraction.  (Macy won today by the way).

CONSTABLE AJ COMES TO VISIT!

Today Constable AJ came to visit all the kids in Piako 2, to talk to us about keeping ourselves safe.

He told us all about the difference between secrets (things that make you feel yuk) and surprises (things that are good and make people feel happy).  He also talked about good touches (like hugs and kisses goodnight), bad touches (kicking and biting etc) and confusing touches (ones that make us feel confused or unsafe).

He told us what to do if we feel unsure or unsafe about a situation.  We did a few role plays so that we could practise what to do.  We talked a lot about who we could ask for help if we needed it.  Mrs Lunn and Constable AJ were very proud of us because we know what is right and what is wrong!

Constable AJ had us hanging on every word

Here we are practising saying "NO! Stop it I don't like it!"

Constable AJ told us to remember PANTS.  Here's what it means...

NOTE FROM MRS LUNN:

Dear Parents,
This was a very positive and empowering session for your children.  Constable AJ reassured the children that they might not ever need to use what they learnt today, but that it was good to know what to do just in case, they or a friend needed help.  You might like to talk with your child about what AJ talked to them about and reassure them that you as a family and the teachers at school will ALWAYS help them if and when they need us.

Thanks for your on-going support

Jo

MRS PECK'S PROBLEM!

Guess what!

Mrs Peck needs our help!

She wrote to us today asking us if we could help her by planting some flowers in a couple of planter pots that she found in the storage shed down by the pool.  She'd like us to plant them so the pots can be on display at the Science Expo next week! 

Of course we said we would help - we are the best helpers EVER!

Mrs Peck has set us some criteria that we have to follow:

• The flowers must be in bloom for the Expo
• The plants can be no taller than 30cm high
• The flowers must be bright and attractive

We decided, like with any problem we have to solve, we'd better use Te Ako Ritenga (our Inquiry Process).

So today we started with WONDER...

Here are a few photos of us working in our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) groups.

We were busy brainstorming all the things we would need to know and do to help Mrs Peck.

Tomorrow we think we need to go down to the pool to find the pots so we can see EXACTLY what we are dealing with!

We will keep you informed of our progress...

MATHS WORKSHOPS!

Over the last couple weeks, Mrs Lunn has been teaching us Multiplication.  We have been learning how to write multiplication equations but more importantly... what they actually mean!

Here are a few photos to show you what we have been up to in Maths:

Here's Cate, George and Isabel working out how may bears there are

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Bailey and Darian sharing their 'Array-nbows' worksheet

Cam, Max and Matty deep in thought using arrays to show multiplication

There are lots of ways to help us at home:

• We could practice skip counting in 2s (ie 2,4,6,8,10 etc) 
• Then we could try skip counting in 5s and 10s
• And if we get super clever, we can try skip counting in 3s, 4s (That's learning our times tables without even knowing it!)

You could always ask us questions while doing chores around the house like

• Counting the socks in their pairs to see how many there are all together
• Skip counting the number of forks and knives at the table etc

And when we get REALLY good, you could ask us some multiplication basic facts like 2x5 (the x means lots of/groups)
The faster we know these basic facts, the better mathematicians we will be for the rest of our lives! Yay!

GENIUS HOUR!

Oliva and Timothy the Bear drew a picture using pastels.  She drew a butterfly first and then she looked for a green pastel and added lots of extra details.

Today in Genius Hour we practised being CREATIVE!

We built amazing towers, jet skis and houses and race tracks.  We drew colourful pictures.  We made cool things with mobilo.

 When we were being Creative we had to think about what were going to do.  We had to ask ourselves how we were going to make it better - we had to REFLECT! 


When were talking to our friends about what they were doing we had to ask...

"Can you tell me about what you are making."

This is an open-ended question.  Asking open-ended questions gets us a lot more detail!

Before

After reflection and improvements

Aaliyah and Stevie made a bedroom for Dawson and he even gets a slide!

Jermaine made a ramp for a car all by himself

Naomi made a city complete with a cylinder on top of the tallest tower