Managing our own learning

Faith had finished all the tasks on the Must Do List so she chose from the Can Do List. She chose to take photos of people showing PRIDE. She used her photography skills she learnt at the beginning of the year.

Here are Faith's snapshots of Room 8 managing their own learning.

Lego Structures

The Pentagon Maths Group are learning to make groups of 100 to make adding a lot of numbers easier.

The Pentagons made structures out of Lego. Each coloured block was worth a different amount. 

Here are some of the structures they made and what they are worth

Henrietta has $100 worth of blue bricks she is adding to her structure.

Adding in Tens

 We are learning to add money and count on in tens from any number. We had $2 to spend at the ice cream shop. We knew we could spend any amount under $2 but no more than $2. Different flavours cost different amounts.

Neesha's ice cream

Toby's ice cream

Here  are some of the ice creams we purchased. 

We were learning to count in tens over 100

eg. 95,105,115 and we changed that to 95c, $1.05, $1.15c

because 100c makes $1. 

Czar's ice cream

Faith's ice cream

Jacob's ice cream

Lawson's ice cream

Making connections

We are learning to make connections to the books we are reading. It helps us to relate what we are reading to our own experiences and therefore understand what we are reading at a deeper level.
Fantastic Foxes and The Pellies made connections to books they have been reading

Bella's connection

Emma's connection

George's connection

Lawson's connection

Ruby's connection

We made connections to the story and why it was different for us.

Our challenge is to make deeper connections and we are going to keep working on this.

Maths Bugs

We have been learning to add money. 

We know we can do this when

*We add the dollars first and then the cents

*We know 100 cents makes $1

*We count in tens to add up eg. 50+20=70

*We use the $ and c symbols to show dollars and cents.

Neesha's bug is worth $7.30c

We made maths bugs out of coins and then added up how much our bugs are worth.

Bella's chrysalis is worth $5.60c  and her butterfly is worth $12.50c 

Max's butterfly is worth $13.20c

Caitlyn's 'J' on the swan plant is worth $9.60c

Thomas' bug is worth $6.70c

Adding up coins is a bit tricky. We found it easier when we made piles of $1 and then added on the rest.

Use the coins at home to practice adding.  

Planting Kowhai Seeds

We are part of Kowhai Hub. The Kowhai is a native tree to New Zealand and is special because it grows yellow flowers that are food for our native birds. 

We are learning about what plants need to grow and how to look after them. 

We had pods of Kowhai seeds Mrs H found under a kowhai tree. We took the seeds out of the pods and then sanded each seed. Sanding the seed allows water to get through the hard outer shell of the seed.

We left the seeds in warm water over night and planted the next day. The seeds had doubled in size.

Toby and Isabella filling their container with seed raising mix.

Neesha making a hole in the soil for her seed (not too deep).

We filled in the hole and watered our seeds (not too much).

Kowhai seeds take a long time to grow. We have to look after our seeds very carefully. We need to take our seeds outside each day to give them sun light and air. We also need to water them each day.

I wonder when our seeds will pop up?

Ouch Stories

We thought about a time when we hurt ourselves and acted out our accident. 

We added detail to our writing to paint a picture in the readers head.

I was swinging bar to bar and my hand started to get sweaty. I started to go a bit faster when I fell onto my back.

“Arrrr! Mum. Dad. My arm hurts. It is bleeding and blood is gushing out of my arm!”

Mum picked me up. “What’s the matter?” she asked. She took one look at my arm…and called “Brendon, Brendon! Call the hospital. Bring them here.”

I slowly settled down. Dad wrapped a towel to stop it bleeding.

The ambulance arrived and put me on a stretcher. They gave me something to breathe easier. They were in a hurry to get to the hospital. I looked mysterious and white like a ghost hiding.

I finally arrived and I got put to sleep. When I woke up I had a purple cast on.

Written by Ruby H

Ouch! Down and down I went like a ball. My nose felt like it was gushing with blood but it wasn't. Once at school we got out of the school pool Mrs H said "Can I meet Room 8 down at the netball court." Room 8 said "Yes!" then somebody actually pushed me over. No one knows who did it. Do you? My eyes were light pink all around and my eyes were leaking with water down my cheeks.

Written by Emma

My leg was red and swollen. I ran into my bedroom crying and didn't come out until it was cupcake time. It all started when we were playing barefoot 2's and Lachlan had his rugby boots on and I came to tackle him. Suddenly he got angry. I knew that he was angry because he was frowning at me "Rrrrrrrr". He had his foot up and then he stood on the side of my left foot. Unfortunately my bruise is still there now.

Written by Logan

  I jumped over the wire safely into the bunny area. I got the shovel not that safely and started digging down... and down... and down because I was trying to make a secret hide out for the bunny. And...splat!!!!!!!!! "Wa wawwa waaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" I hopped in to the house a blood trail was behind me. "Mummy mummy I cut my foot open". "Whaaaaat?"  Vroom vroom! We sped to the doctors. "Hello" said the doctor. "Can you please glue my foot together?" "Ok." It was sparkly purple he did it by gluing it on the side and sliding it around the gap. I stopped crying. I said "Why are smudging the glue?"" Because it will be even". My scar is still on me and I am 7 now.

Written by Jerome

Shopping

We have had the New World Little Shops in our room and the children have been playing shops with them each morning. For maths we decided to create a shop to practice adding tens and ones. We had grocery hampers to buy.

We had blank money and could create any notes we chose.

We took turns at being the shop keeper and checking people were paying the right amount for their groceries.

Toby paid for his grocery hamper. Did he pay the right amount of money?

Neesha is double checking she has the right amount of money to pay for her groceries.