Thursday, June 23, 2016

Collaborative Problem Solving in Maths

Today's Problem:
Mrs Slaughter has to purchase glow sticks for the school disco.  Glow sticks come in packets of 6.
How many packets does she need to buy if she needs:

  1. 36 glow sticks?
  2. 114 glow sticks?
  3. 180 glow sticks?

Below are the strategies used by the students to solve the above problems ...

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Collaborative Problem Solving in Maths

Today's problem:

Cars and Tyres
In a Toyota car manufacturing plant [factory] five tyres are needed to make one car.
a) How many tyres are needed to make eight cars?
b) How many tyres are needed to make 26 cars?
c) How many tyres are needed to make 130 cars?

Below are the strategies used by the students to solve the above problems ...

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Reading - Group Sharing

We are learning to summarise what we read by identifying the main idea and important details.

The giraffes reading group shares their learning from today's lesson with the class.



Monday, June 6, 2016

Maths Sharing

At the end of our maths lessons we like to share what different groups have been learning.  Here is Daniel sharing his learning.


Character Descriptions

We are learning to write a character description that includes external (outside) and internal (inside) traits.

Hayley!

A smart, intelligent and beautiful girl named Hayley is sweet sugar, as responsible as a teacher and as positive as fox.

This lovely girl has blue eyes, as blue as the sky and soft, curly blonde hair as bright as the sun.  Hayley prefers to wear a black, leather skirt.  She is as skinny as a pencil and looks classy with those dark sneakers.  Hayley is adventurous and is active outdoors.  Hayley is trustworthy, independent and as brave as a lion.

By Seema

RO,MON
Ro,mon is half kangaroo and half panda. She has two sisters and a baby panda. She has good skin and long legs with short arms and a long tail. She is purple green and pink, she has blue eyes. She is funny , bubbly, happy and sometimes angry and sometimes she is sad. She has a warm and soft heart and sometimes she is as sad as a raincloud.

By Paige

Murk

 Murk is the craziest zombie ever to live in the swamp. He is Stupider than a log and he gets into random fights with hunters in The swamp. His knee always has a knife stuck in there because he’s Very unlucky. His favourite food is KFC, but he never gets the right thing because he can’t speak. He has never sobbed because he can’t feel pain. He is so green, you would think he was sick all day. The eyes are like the yellow of mouldy cheese. Their body is skinny so his teared clothes never fit. His feet are so wide and short. His hair is so bushy ,he can hide as a black shrub in the swamp. Murk’s nose is the most weird looking,purple nose ever, that you’d think that it got trampled by king kong. His ears and fingers are screwed up cause they’re broken.

By Andrew

Xtramath Mastery - Multiplication