More Leaves on our Vocabulary Tree

Great to see more people being determined and building their knowledge about the forest.

John Paul - fauna

Jack M - flora

Molly - pohutukawa

Ciara - understory

Ashaani - oak tree

Lucy - pollination

Benjamin - canopy

Finn - dark and birch tree

Yunni - floor

Building Forests with Multiplication Arrays

We have been learning a new strategy in our numeracy learning where we can draw or group an array to show a multiplication fact (4 x 3) and show how it is different to another one (3 x 4) but is the same value.

Here is a video to help explain what an array is:

We chose to make a connection with our learning about the forest and use the duplication function in Explain Everything to make some forests showing our knowledge of arrays.  Here are some examples of our learning:

Numeracy Art - Combining Measurement, Geometry and Area

We are creating some art that Mr Lewzey showed us today - we are looking at using our knowledge of geometry (squares), measurement (using centimeters) and area (working out which of our squares are bigger or smaller).

Here are the instructions that we used to create our art pieces:

Here are some photos of our learning.

Pokemon and Place Value - Addition Agents and Subtraction Squad

We thought Mr Lewzey was a bit crazy when he said that we were going to use Pokemon to help us with our place value strategies.

We were able to create our own Pokemon and then use these numbers to practice both our place value addition and subtraction skills.

Here are our creatures:

The Way Back Home

WALHT write imaginative solutions for problems in a story.

We watched an animated video that was inspired by Oliver Jeffer's picture book called The Way Back Home. The video was paused after we were introduced to the problem of the story - the boy and the alien were both stuck on the moon because both the rocket and the spaceship were broken, oh no! Please read of our creative solutions to solve the very troubling problem. Enjoy!