GREATER THAN AND LESS THAN!

Today in Maths we learnt about greater than and less than.  We made a greedy crocodile mouth.  The mouth ALWAYS opens to the biggest number.  

Next we made two sets of different sizes.  We put the crocodile mouth facing the biggest set.  Then we read the mathematical sentence.

For example:  2 is less than 5 

5 is greater than 1

You could get us to practice this at home.

WHAT'S MISSING?

Today in Maths we made patterns.  Then our friend 'stole' one of our objects when we weren't looking.  We had to guess what was missing.

Here are some of the ways we figured it out:

• "I read the pattern to figure out what was missing" - Max U
• "Sephia read the pattern to see what was missing" - Leah
• "Molly thought, which one is missing?" - Stevie
• "I just looked at the pattern and then I figured it out" - Kalas
• "I repeated my pattern" - Nate
• "I memorised my pattern and so I could tell which one was missing" - Noah

You might like to play this cool game with us at home!

PATTERN AND ALGEBRA!

Over the next two weeks we will be learning about Pattern and Algebra.  We have started with Pattern. 

Today we played Musical Patterns.  We had to make a pattern and then when the music stopped, we moved to a friend's pattern and continued that pattern.

We have been talking about the rule for our patterns.  For example if the pattern was:  Red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue,  the rule would be ABB.

To help at home you could get us to make patterns with beads, coloured socks, forks and spoons, our toys, and get us to tell you the pattern's rule.

TERM THREE!

Welcome back to Term Three!

We have come back to school super eager to get straight back into our learning.  This term we will have Athletics.  Starting next week we will have Athletics practice every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  Athletics day is on the 25th of November so we have a lot to do to be ready to compete out at Massey!

This term our Inquiry is Creative Play!  Our teachers will give us cool challenges to complete.  We'll post photos of our activities throughout the term to keep you up to date.

HUMAN CLOCKS!

Today in Maths, we were learning about time.  We learnt that the long hand is the minute hand and it takes one hour to go around the clock.  The short hand is called the hour hand.  It takes one hour to go from one number the next.

We made ourselves into a human clock.  We used kids as the numbers and kids as the hands.  Can you see what time it is?

You can help us at home, by getting us to read the time off the TV or the microwave.  We would like to learn both digital and analogue time.

ADVERTISING!

Miss Crowther taught Piako 2 all about Social Responsibility today.  That's when individual people of business do something good to help others.  It got us WONDERING ... what could we do to help others.  We came up with a few suggestions but we decided we would go home and have a think and a talk with our families about we should do with the Market Day profit. 

Please can you help us at home try and decide what good cause we could help.

Making an advertising poster

TIME AND TEMPERATURE!

Over the next two weeks half of our Maths Sessions will focus on the Measurement Stand of the Maths Curriculum.  We will be looking at Time and Temperature.  We will be learning the days of the week, months of the year, and seasons.  We will learn how to tell the time using analogue clocks initially and depending on how flash we are, we might even learn to tell digital time.

You can help us at home by making us aware of what time it is, what time we need to leave to come to school, when is tea time etc.  You might like to tell us how long we have to get ready, or eat our tea.  Putting the timer on the microwave to countdown while we do something helps us realise how long ten minutes is for example.

In the other half of our lessons, we will continue to do our Strategy and Knowledge workshops with the teachers.  In Strategy we are still focusing on Multiplication and Division and for Knowledge this week we are looking at Grouping and Place Value (ie How many tens are there in 30)

Thanks for helping us in our learning journey - our teachers really appreciated it!

WE LOVE MATHS!

Over the next couple of weeks we are focusing on Multiplication and we are loving it!  Mrs Lunn is taking us for workshops focusing on skip counting to solve multiplication problems and we are learning to use arrays too. 

You can help us at home by getting us to skip count in 2s, 5s and 10s.  We should know our doubles as 4+4 and we should know that that's the same as 2×4.  Once we are flash at that,  we could try skip counting in 3s and 4s!

Miss Crowther is taking the knowledge workshops at the moment.   We are learning about Fractions!  We need to recognize the symbol for half and quarter and be able to tell you what half of a shape looks like.

At home,  you could get us to cut out pictures or shapes and get us to cut them in half.   You could give us a group of something (maybe crackers) and ask us the split the group in half (so we have half each).  You could ask us if we'd like our apple cut in quarters or halves.

Thanks for helping us!

SUBTRACTION!

Over the next few weeks, we will be learning all about Subtraction.  If you would like to help at home, please give us a number and ask us to count backwards from that number.

We are also learning to count backwards in 10s and 5s from 100, and in 2s from 20 (then bigger numbers).  

Please listen carefully to us when we count backwards in 10s as a lot of us say...

"... 40. 30, 12, 11, 10..."

Please get us to make sure we say thirTY and hopefully we will remember to say 20 and 10 after that;-)

FORWARD SEQUENCES WORKSHOPS!

In Maths for the next two weeks we are focusing on Forward Sequences.  Please help us at home by giving us a number and asking us what number comes next.  We are pretty flash so give us hard ones!