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Showing posts with label PTC 8:Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PTC 8:Learning. Show all posts
Friday, 1 December 2017
Is Technology Good or Bad?
Today I asked Team 8 to reflect on what they have learned about technology. I asked them if they thought technology was good or bad. Here is a short video I took of some of the children sharing their thoughts...
Thursday, 16 November 2017
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!
Sunday, 5 November 2017
Monday, 23 October 2017
Little Gardens
Did you hear?
The wonderful Arya's Mummy scored us a whole bunch of the New World Little Garden seedlings! Woo hoo!
Last week, we shared them out between the Junior School classes and still managed to have a whole heap left for us to plant so, on Friday, we invited our buddy class, Room 14 to help us.
The teachers didn't help us, we had to read the instructions with our buddies. We hope that they grow!
We still have some more that we will plant next week. Keep your eyes peeled if any of them have germinated when you get to school Tuesday.
Here are some pictures of us working with our buddies...
The wonderful Arya's Mummy scored us a whole bunch of the New World Little Garden seedlings! Woo hoo!
Last week, we shared them out between the Junior School classes and still managed to have a whole heap left for us to plant so, on Friday, we invited our buddy class, Room 14 to help us.
The teachers didn't help us, we had to read the instructions with our buddies. We hope that they grow!
We still have some more that we will plant next week. Keep your eyes peeled if any of them have germinated when you get to school Tuesday.
Here are some pictures of us working with our buddies...
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
The Dinosaur Tooth
We are so lucky to have Mrs Clyde in our class. She often brings in exciting objects for us to look at.
Last week she brought in a Dinosaur tooth...interesting!!!!
We had a chat about what sort of dinosaur the tooth might of belonged to. Where might it have lived, what might it have eaten?
Here we have two fabulous writers sharing their stories.
Great descriptions Tom and Ashton.
Last week she brought in a Dinosaur tooth...interesting!!!!
We had a chat about what sort of dinosaur the tooth might of belonged to. Where might it have lived, what might it have eaten?
Here we have two fabulous writers sharing their stories.
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!
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...
Friday, 8 September 2017
Stu Duval Cartoon Drawing
On Tuesday during Literacy week Stu Duval came back to teach all the Juniors to be Cartoon illustrators.
Team 8 loved being part of this exciting interactive performance.
Thursday, 7 September 2017
Being Authors
Today, as part of literacy week, Team 8 pretended they were Lynley Dodd, author of Hairy Maclary. We split into 4 teams and worked collaboratively to make up a BRAND NEW, NEVER BEEN HEARD BEFORE story, about the adventures of Hairy Maclary.
It was awesome to watch how the teams worked so well together. Each and every person had a say about what they wanted to happen the story.
Word spread very quickly about how awesome we were....so along came.... Hairy Maclary! (Just joking - It was actually the wonderful Mrs Steel!) She was so impressed with our imaginations (not to mention our sounding of tricky words, using full stops and tidy writing) that she gave all of our stories the 'special seal of approval' with her DEPUTY PRINCIPAL sticker.
Not everyone is lucky enough to get one of those bad boys... but WE did!
If you're lucky enough to know someone in Team 8, you might get a chance to read the finished story in person, sometime soon. If not, here are pictures of the originals.
Well done Team 8!
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