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!

Huff N Puffathon

Last Friday Team 8 had a blast running around the PTA set up track to raise money for Sunnyhills School.

Lots of us ran more than 10 laps. Go Team 8.

Mrs Grant even did a cartwheel on the track..Hehe!

Super Similes

Last week some of Team 8 were learning to describe things using Smilies. - A simile is a figure of speech that compares one thing with another thing of a different kind. 

SOME of us were working with with the teacher, and SOME of us had their listening (eavesdropping) ears switched on, and decided to create smilies all on their own without any of my help!!!

I was super impressed with these writers and I promised them fame right here on the blog. 

Please help them to understand the value of their writing and leave them a comment telling them what a great job they have done.

Crazy for KidsCan

We were pretty wacky to start with anyway - but here we are dressed to impress!

Thanks for your support xo

Sri Lanka

On Thursday Sayuni's Daddy came in for a visit. 

He showed us a powerpoint and answered all our questions about Sri Lanka. 

We are very lucky to have two people in our class who come from Sri Lanka; Sayuni and Anoji.

This is them in their traditional dress

Did you know that there are 3 different languages in Sri Lanka (Sinhala, Tamil and English)? Sayuni and her family speak Sinhala and Anoji and his family speak Tamil.

Here is Sayuni's Dad holding the Sinhala alphabet

He told us, that to greet other people in Sinhala, we need place our hands together, bow and say "Ayubowan"

Sayuni's mummy came for a visit too, she made us kokis to try. She had made them in the shape of Sri Lanka. They were sweet and crunchy.

Anoji's mummy also joined the party and brought us some Kesari to taste. It was yellow and was also nice and sweet. 

Here we are eating all our traditional Sri Lankan sweets (lot's of us went back for seconds ;-)

Thank you so much mummy's they would have taken AGES to cook and they were soooo delicious!

To finish it all, On Friday we talked about all the things we had learned. Here is our wall display that we made together. Can you remember what the Sri Lankan native bird in the picture is called?

Thank you so much to Sayuni and Anoji's families for coming in and sharing your culture with us. I say it all the time, but Team 8 is so very lucky to have such a supportive whanau like you.

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