More fractions

 We have been using the shape tools in Seesaw to make halves and quarters. 

It is quite tricky to divide the shapes evenly and make all the pieces fair!

Fractions, fractions, fractions

We have been learning about whole, half and quarter of shapes. 

We have noticed that our sandwiches are cut into these fractions too. 

Here are some of the pages from our maths books. We have been doing lots of practice.

Lego Challenge Day

 We are working together, sharing creative ideas and rising to the challenges to complete the lego tasks.

Lego, lego everywhere!

Task 1: create a mosaic (on own) or a sculpture (on own or with a buddy)

Task 2: work with a buddy to make a car and see how far it can travel off the ramp

Task 3: work with a different buddy to make a marble run

Task 4: choose one of the lego sets and get creative - work on own or in a team

What an awesome day, great teamwork, great creations and plenty of trial and error!

Beebot Challenge

We made a plan for our Beebot challenge and some of us built our design with the big blocks.  Can we programme our robot to get through the big block track?

We used forward and backward, left and right turn commands to get our robots to the end of the track.

We had to input the commands into the beebot and then test the programme to see if we had made the robot go far enough and turn the right way. Sometimes we had to makes some changes to complete the challenge.

Developmental

Team Waka get together to learn and play together during Developmental.  Have a look at us inside and outside of Room 14 this Friday afternoon.

Cars, trucks and roads

Sand Saucers

Week 1 Term 4

 A very exciting start to our last term. 

k week. We learned about the native New Zealand birds that start with the letter k.; kiwi, kea, kakapo and  karearea. We made bird kites and tested them to see how high they could fly.

On Wednesday we were lucky enough to have two cricket coaches come to teach us some catching, batting and fielding skills. It was a lot of fun.

Swimming

 

We have just completed 2 weeks of swimming. We went to the pool every day and made fantastic progress.

During our swimming programme, the children were participating in a levelled group lessons to develop further skills in the water. The aim is to become more relaxed and confident in and around the water.

 

The activities included
- Entering and exiting the pool safely
- Putting their head in and then under the water

- Blowing bubbles/beginning breathing skills 

- Floating on their backs and fronts with a board/noodle and then without a board/noodle
- Kicking on their fronts and backs with a board

- Learning arm strokes

Other skills the children are learning are
- Self-management skills such as looking after their belongings, undressing and dressing
- Walking safely in a group
- Following instructions given by a swimming teacher