PIAKO TAHI CAME TO VISIT TODAY!

Our Piako Tahi buddies came to visit at Te Puawai time,  We practised saying Homai te... and then saying a food name.  Here are a few photos of us in action...

HIGH POWERED MATHS!

There was some pretty fancy Maths taking place in the Jungle today!

Mrs Lunn was helping the children learning about Place Value.

Here is a photo of  Keira explaining how she worked out an answer...

This is Devon practising working out how many dots he has using place value...

And here is Devon explaining the 'rule' he worked out for how he knows about how many groups of ten are in a 2-digit number...

Ethan was doing a bit of teaching today too.  

Here he is explaining to the children how he worked out what half of six is...

DINOSAURS!!!

We had an absolute blast this afternoon!

Our Inquiry topic for this week is DINOSAURS with a strong focus on Measurement.  

Mia and Charlotte-Rose were busy writing down some dinosaur facts

The girls were busy learning to use rulers to measure the heights of the dinosaurs

Outside some of the boys were busy measuring out how long the dinosaurs were.

They were HUGE!

These kids are classifying dinosaurs

Some of us got CREATIVE and made dinosaur hats

Joshua and Anushka drew a dinosaur and then measure how high they were using non-standard measurements

Kyle made a spiky dinosaur tail

Look out!  It's Tyrannosaurus Ben!

Here is Soyfa with her dinosaur hat

 Mrs Lunn cut out a footprint the same size as a dinoaur's foot.  

Did you know it is the same size as Mika?

Then we had to fill up the dinosaurs footprint with objects - it too 13 looking word cards to equal 1 footprint!

Here's Anushka's dinosaur.  It is 8 blocks high.

We can't wait until tomorrow for more Dinosaur Maths!

THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES...

Today we continued EXPLORING into how to build our ramps.  We looked at the different surfaces we could put on our ramp to make the cars go faster.  There was some very clever thinking happening today.


Caitlin, Darcy, Karys and Ava-Rose came up with a great way to test the different fabrics.  They lay the fabrics over there legs to simulate a ramp and let the car go down.  They could tell by how fast the car traveled down, as to which material they could use on their ramp for Lightning.

Kyle did some great work today too.  He found out that two metre rulers would be 2 metres.  That's the distance that Lightning needs to go.  So he used two rulers to measure the distance and then he started building his ramp.   When the teachers reminded him of the success criteria, that the car needs to go 2 metres from the END of the ramp, Kyle needed to do a re-think.  He decided to move his ramp and rulers down to the floor where he would have more room.  He moved the rulers to the end of his ramp.  Great thinking Kyle!

Now here's some clever thinking...

Benji, Regan and Nathan decided to use the sandpaper to sand down their piece of wood to make it really smooth.  Then they even thought to wipe the dust off with a cloth.   The smooth surface will decrease the amount of friction and allow the car accelerate faster.  How's that for flash thinking!

Devon and Kiara were busy making their ramp today too.  They decided to make it like a bridge.  They noticed that when the car went down the wood, it didn't go down very fast.  The wood was too bumpy and caused the car to slow down and even fall off the edge of the ramp!  So after a quick think, the kids grabbed a piece of cardboard that was nice and smooth to add onto their ramp.

Great problem-solving guys!

During this EXPLORE phase of our investigation, the children were encouraged to keep notes on what they found out.  Here are Ashton and Connor explaining what they have learnt so far...

Maarire and Petra work so well together.  You'll see in this video that although they don't say much there is a lot of thinking and problem-solving going on!

Ben found out about friction today - here is a video of him explaining what he found out.  

(excuse the background noise - it was pack up time!)