Maths Superstars!

Over the last week we have been busy learning about multiplication and division with Mrs Lunn and Fractions with Miss Crowther. We are thrilled to announce that Kalas has moved up a Strategy Stage in Mult/Div! Macy was awarded a certificate for always challenging herself and never just taking the easy option. Great job guys! We are super proud of you both :-)

                                 

ANIMAL PARTY!

On Monday we received a very special invitation. Pounamu Atawhai have invited us to attend their Animal Party from 10-11am on Friday September 11th in the school hall. They are collecting for the SPCA as part of their Inquiry this term. 

All we need to do to get a ticket to the party is bring one of the following to the School office foyer any morning this week:

• Pet Food
• Old Blankets
• Animal Toys
• Cleaning Products

Please help us to support this worthy cause! We need a ticket to go to the party and hear it is going to be lots of fun! 

Isabel's Horseshoes

Today Isabel brought in some horseshoes to show the class and taught us about how they work. We were surprised to learn that horseshoes get nailed onto the feet of horses! We were very relieved when we found out this doesn't hurt them like it would us. Isabel even let us all touch the horseshoes which we thought was pretty cool!

Thanks for sharing and teaching us about horses Isabel, you really are an expert when it comes to horses :-)

We love Maths!

Over the next few weeks Miss Crowther is taking knowledge workshops. This week we are learning about fractions!

You can help us at home by getting us to cut out (or draw) pictures or shapes and asking us to cut them in half. You could give us a group of something (like grapes) and ask us to split the group in half (so we each get equal halves). You could ask if we'd like our sandwiches cut in halves or quarters, and how many pieces we will have if we cut it. 

Mrs Lunn is taking our Strategy workshops and over the next few weeks we are focusing on multiplication. You can help us at home by getting us to skip count in 2s, 5s and 10s. We should know our doubles as 5+5 and we should know that that's the same as 2 x 5. If we've mastered that, we could even try skip counting in 3s and 4s! 

Thanks for helping us! We love Maths :)

                     

Economic Roles

Today in preparation for our market day we explored some economic roles. We learned that:

PRODUCERS make products

RETAILERS sell products and 

CONSUMERS (or customers) buy products

We did an activity where we had to sort pictures into each heading. Here are some photos of us hard at work!

MASS PRODUCTION!

We were super busy on Friday mass producing some of our Market Day products.  We had a production line going for producing the Pet Clouds.  Sephia unrolled the cotton wool, Isabel shaped the cotton wool into cloud shapes, Mrs Lunn glued the eyes on, Jayden put the cloud into a little bag, Ella put in the label and sealed the bag shut and Stevie and Jack counted how many we had made.  We each had our own special job to do and became very good at it.  Together we produced 32 Pet Clouds in less than one hour.  We were a well-oiled production machine!

Thanks for taking the photos Lucas

Go Noodle!!

Today we created a GoNoodle and made our own class pet. We were super excited! Our pet will grow with every video we watch. Unfortunately Miss Crowther has just discovered that we can't access the class goNoodle from home, but if you would like to make your own one for home we would love to hear about your new 'pet' and the games you played tomorrow!
The instructions for the free sign up are here:
 https://s3.amazonaws.com/nash-production-assets/parent_invite_pdfs/gonoodle_parent_invite_en.pdf :-)