O is for One Hundred

Today we had a big catch up on our 100 days at school.  We have been counting each day we have been coming to school since the beginning of the school year.  When we get to 100 days we will celebrate!  We have been so busy lately that we have lost track of the day.

Miss Gargan told the children that we have been coming to school for

"one day less than 1/2 of 100" 

and we had to work it out.

We used the abacus to work out what 1/2 of 100 is.  Charlotte showed us 1/2 of 100 and it looked like this ...

We counted in 5's...5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50.

We also could show 1/2 of 100 like this ...

We counted this in 10's...10, 20, 30, 40, 50

1 less than 50 looks like this ...

So we are up to day 49!

We updated our display to show 49 in lots of different ways - 

Then we got a challenge -

The children worked in small groups to solve this problem - well done Room 6!

M is for Morning Question!

We had a great morning question today!  It was related to the book Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.  It is a beautiful book and fits very nicely with our topic of change.

Our morning question has such great learning - we had some good discussions around the question, we do statistical learning as well as number knowledge.

I think the parents were a bit surprised by what the children considered most fun!!!

Based on this data we came up with the following statements - 

Miss Gargan asked a new questions - the answers are very interesting!!

After these discussions we did some number knowledge work with this data.

There was lots of good maths going on.  

*The children were able to count all the names and get an answer of 13.

*Using our knowledge of adding 1 we knew that 9+1 makes 10.  We used our fingers to double check this.

*Next we worked on the problem 10+3 - we used the counting on stragety and put the biggest number 10 in our heads, and counted on 3 - 10....11, 12, 13.

*One clever child made the observation that there are 14 children in our class but only 13 had answered the questions.  More maths!!  Subtraction this time - 14-13=1.

Did you know we did all that with our morning question???

R is for Reading Eggs

The last couple of weeks have just flown by!  What a treat to have 5 days off for the Easter break before the end of term.

Our collaborative teaching in Rooms 6 and 7 has been working very well.  Both teachers feel that the students are getting the best learning with this approach.

Over the past couple of weeks we have spent time introducing the children to the Reading Eggs programme.  Deb our teacher aide has been supporting them during reading rotation times.  The kids are doing great and we encourage you to use this programme at home to support their learning.  

The biggest challenge we face in class is having the students sign on and off the ipads using their personal logins.  If you can encourage them at home to do this independently it will help us during class time.