Understanding fractions

Zara and Aysha looked at how to share 3 apple tarts with four people. They knew that each person would get a half and that was the same as 2 fourths [quarters] and the last tart each person would get one fourth. All together each person would get 3 fourths of a tart each. Well done girls with your explanation.

Fractions

 It's amazing how working with chocolates makes sense of fractions!!!
The problem today: "If I have 4 kit-kat fingers how will I share them equally with 6 people."

 Charlotte, Emily and Yvon broken the kit-kat into four fingers, they halved three fingers and divided the last finger into thirds and then sixths. Girls what will the answer to how much of the chocolate kit-kat did each person get?

These groups divided each finger into thirds and then shared them equally amongst 6 people. What proportion of the kit-kat did each person get? Is it the same answer as the first group? 

2015 Calendar art

Election Day

Stepping up to vote after the election speeches.

Elections 2014

 Nature's Way have worked hard to research information to support their policies. Great team effort. Xing the leader of the party is ready to deliver tomorrow!

The Bright Kiwi's have campaigned well with their advertising. Their policies are clearly outlined and they have been very supportive as a party.

 The media team have done an amazing job of interviewing the party leaders and the filming will be presented tomorrow Friday before the seniors get to cast their votes. They also kept their board up to date with the latest information for people to view and read.

Election Interview

The Media Team conducted interviews with all the leaders prior to the elections. Here we see Sam, a member of the media team,  interviewing Matt Ford the leader of the Bright Kiwi's.

Learning about weight

Exploring how 1kg of rice is made up of 1000gm. 

Finding 1kg of clay and then dividing the 1kg of clay into 2 x 500g blocks without weighing. After 3 attempts to find equal amounts explain what strategy was used.

The see-saw problem. Using a balancing scale created from a ruler and a block the children were required to use a bolt and balance the scales at the other end with a number of objects. Recording using diagrams and looking for a pattern the children wrote an explanation of what they noticed.

Spanish lessons

Room 8 are getting really confident in conversing in Spanish. Lucia and Juan teach us every Thursday morning and we are building up our vocabulary and small phrases. Today we played eye spy and used our colours. Then we learnt our numbers beyond ten. To finish today's session we played a number game with a partner. For this we had one hand behind our backs and on go, shot out 1 - 5 fingers. Then it was the first to add the numbers and say that number in spanish. Thanks Lucia and Juan for making our learning fun.

Lucia and Juan during our greeting session.

Rhythm Interactive

Yesterday we had John and Lucy visit our school to present an interactive music session. It was amazing! We were so energised and engaged throughout the hour performance. Using our voices combined with the beat of the drums, we created incredible music.

Here we are actively listening as the show had no verbal instructions!

Fun, laughter and enjoyment. Keeping in time and remembering the sequences was all part of creating the music.

John and Lucy were inspirational presenters. They worked hard to have all the senior students keep the rhythm.

  

Art Elective in Room 8

This year for learning painting skills we create a mural. With our theme for the year being 'structures' it was appropriate to choose a building that we are closely associated with, the 'University of Otago'. The 25 children in the elective were each given one small piece of the puzzle that they were responsible for painting. This required them to focus on proportioning their paper, aligning their work with people above, below and beside their puzzle piece so that they could make a connection. It wasn't until the final day that they worked out which building they had painted. Great effort team!

The day we finished our mural and discovered it was the University.

Just adding the final touches and making a few connections with colour and shape.

The wee highlander has graduated and our wonderful mural now adorns the hallway in the senior school.

Assembly music item

Thank you Jayden for being an excellent leader in teaching the class the ukuele. Thank you also to all of the children who supported the learning of others, as there were quite a few children who had not played a ukuele before. Awesome job Room 8.

Room 8 assembly welcome and farewell

Room 8 assembly

Room 8 presented in assembly today and what an awesome job they did. As their teacher I am really proud of what they accomplished in 2 weeks. Well done Room 8.  Obedience is our value of the term and we are all working on this. Here is Mr Values continued........

The Dunedin Art Gallery

Our trip to the Dunedin Art Gallery was fantastic. We were there looking at difference structures and in particular historic buildings in Dunedin. Using a technique of pen and wash we created pictures replicating the many buildings from around Dunedin. The day we visited was also the last day of the lego construction. Creating tall buildings and adding to existing buildings was such a lot of fun.

Structure and Relational Thinking in Maths

We begin our maths learning sessions making connections with numbers. Understanding how numbers are structured and how they relate to other numbers is the key solving problems. We then move on to solving a problem so that our learning about numbers can be transferred to a new situation. From what we know about numbers we are able to select a strategy that best solves the problem. Check out one page of our modelling book to see how we are going.