Tom and William Talk About Capacity

We are always trying new things in Team 8. Today our task was to talk about our learning. 

A special thanks to Lachie who was filming for the first time too. I think they all did a pretty stellar job, don't you?

Volume and Capacity in the Sandpit

Last Friday Team 8 went out to estimate, experiment and measure lots of different containers in the sandpit.

We used lots of different maths words like: more than, less than, full, half full, empty, nearly full, nearly empty.

Mrs Grant set us a challenge to try and estimate how many tablespoons different containers might hold. Team 8 had to work as teams to estimate and measure.

We are clever Mathematicians!

Next week we are going to make some Muffins!

Mathematics - Half of a Number

In Team 8 we have been talking about halves. We look at half of a shape first and that was easy peasy! Half is just cutting it in two equal pieces Mrs Grant.

So Mrs Grant decided to challenge us.

We looked at what half of a number is.
Here is Cairo trying to figure out what half of 7 is.  Mrs Grant thought she had tricked the class, but Cairo figured out that you just had to cut one of the shapes in half...clever!














We used pizza pictures with pizza toppings.  We had to put half of the toppings on each side of the pizza, making sure that it was even on either side.
We found out that half or 8 was 4.  Also half of 6 is 3.






Now here was a real challenge.  We then starting talking about a quarter of a number.
Mrs Grant gave a number problem.
"If there were 12 balls and 4 children how many balls would each group get"
So...what is 1/4 of 12.
This is what Mason came up with...

Great problem solving Mason!

How Tall are We?

Continuing our learning around measurement and length, today we measured our classmates with a piece of string. It was quite a learning experience for some of us, figuring out where to start measuring from and making sure we cut the string in the correct place. Mrs Turner didn't get too many photos as she was trying to be here, there and everywhere!

Afterwards we lined all our pieces of string up on the board. Some of us are taller than others and some of us are shorter. I wonder if you can see who the Tallest is?

In the afternoon, we attached the string to a cut-out of our face. Mrs Turner has hung them up for you to have a look at on Monday. Next week, we will be taking them down and doing some more measuring with them. I wonder how many pens tall we are? or how many hands? or maybe we could try 'how many drink bottles'?!

Watch this space!

Measurment

In Maths we have just started learning about length. 

Today, we compared the size of our 'worms'. We learned lots of new 'measurement language'. 

We even wrote some sentences about our 'worms'.

"Ryan's worm is shorter than Jarretts."

"Tom's is longer than Lachies."

"My worm is littler than Sayuni's. My worm is longer than Mason's."

Team 8 are becoming such super Mathematicians. Keep up the hard work guys! x

100 Days Party!

Team 8 started counting to 100 from the first day of school.  We counted all the school days that we have been at school.  It has been so much fun to learn how to count in 10's and 1's.
We had a great day on Wednesday dressing up, wearing cool 100 glasses and crowns and participating in lots of activities based around the number 100.
Some of the activities that we participated in were:

• Making a structure with 100 blocks
• Making a structure that held 2 books with 100 plastic cups
• 100 and 1000 fairy bread
• Making fruit and veges shaped into 100
• Paper chains
• Counting shapes and pictures with 100 different objects in them
• Bingo dots to 100
• Seeing how many press ups, sit ups, and star jumps we could do in 100 seconds (this was hard!)

Here are the pictures to show you all the fun we had.

It was an amazing day!

Thank you you to all the parents that put their efforts into helping your child make their costumes!

Mrs Grant