September Reading Certificates

Wow lots of Reading Certificates for the month of September.  The first 3 certificates (in green) are 120 nights reading.  This is outstanding.  Well done everyone!  Keep up the fantastic reading.  

Place Value Maths

Recently we have been learning face value, place value and total value and using place value equipment to help us with maths problems.  Below is a picture of us working in pairs to add place value equipment together.

Here are some pictures of what we needed to be able to understand before we could to this activity above.  

"We have enjoyed using the place value equipment as we can see what the numbers look like".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adding 2 digit numbers using place value

In class this week we have moved on from hungry nines and super hungry 8's to revisiting place value.  We are now learning to use this to  add problems with larger numbers.  Below are some rewindable learning moments we wanted to share so we could all look back at them and remember how to solve these sorts of problems, and also how to talk about solving these sorts of problems.

Not only is this a great way to remember for ourselves, It will also help us develop the ability to explain this to others for our student led workshops that we run on Fridays.  

How to Make a Paper Plane

For the last week we have been learning about air pressure. Veon wanted to make a paper plane to see what would happen to it with the pressure from different air forces. On Monday we learnt how to make a paper plane. We looked at YouTube tutorials to show us how people present instructions. Olivia, Ella, Shiah, and Kaira have put together a video explaining how to make a basic paper plane. The Hovercrafts (reading group) wrote up the steps for us on Pic Collage. Tomorrow we will try to follow these instructions to make planes to test with different air pressures, like a fan, hair dryer, or air released from a balloon. Cheyne wants to try and make different designs to see which paper plane will fly the longest distance.

Check out our video to see if you can make a paper plane. Please let us know how it goes!

Playing around with Thinglink

Today we had were lucky to have Mr Bell come into our classroom to help us learn about the iMac.  Jake and Ella were learning how to transfer images and videos from the iPad onto the iMac.  Well done you two, and thankyou Mr Bell.

Along side this we also had a group of children learning how to use a tool called Thinglink.  This can be use both on Computer as well as on iPad.  We were using iPads today.  Here are some links to ones children created today.  Please bear in mind that this was a first attempt.

Piata's Thinglink


Tristan's Thinglink

Buster's Thinglink