Angle Boards

This was interesting.We have been studying fractions and have touched on angles. In our last week of Term 3 we have decided to create Angle Boards. However, we did discuss fractions and how our design can be broken into quarters, sixths, eigths or tenths..

After sourcing out the wood, students painted their board and transferred their draft design onto their blackboard. Next step was to measure out 1 centimetre spaces on each line. Following this, they carefully nailed in nails on each centimetre, lots of challenges here! Lastly. they wrapped their coloured wool around the nails - creating an illusion!

Interesting challenge....and a number of children using a hammer for the first time - great effort from all...!!!!

Cross Country

A fantastic effort from everyone in room 9... after training for the last couple of weeks, we completed this event with no rain!!!

Well done to everyone.

         

     


    

    

  

 

What I learnt this week, By Maui Hodge

Things that I learnt this week:

Friction is…

Friction is something that slows an object down. EG: wood that tries to slide down a ramp with sandpaper on it. The sandpaper slows down the sliding motion. If the piece of wood had tinfoil on it, this would slide faster, because there is less friction between the tinfoil and the wooden ramp.

Maori:

Turuturu = Be quite!

I thought that turuturu means to listen!

By Maui Hodge

Maths - by Maui Hodge

In maths we are learning to add and subtract using different strategies, using the number line, algorithm or reversibility. For example:

376 - 199 = 177.

We round the 199 up by 1 to make it 200. We then say 376 - 200 = 176. We then add on the extra 1 to make it 177 because we rounded the 199 to a tidy number of 200.