Bubble Fun

Bubble Fun

WALT / Practising to Count On and Count Back

Today we had a visit from the Science in a Van Roadshow.  

We learnt about mixtures, separation and reactions.  We also had some bubble fun.

We decided to see how many bubbles we could blow in ONE breath and then add them together and take them away - this way we could practise our addition and subtraction and basic facts.

Some of us had to blow a few times to make sure we got enough bubbles to count!

"We blew 25 bubbles the first time and then we blew 16 bubbles the second time.  It was hard to count them all because there were so many and they floated so fast!  When we worked out 25 plus 16 we 20 + 10 + 5 + 6 = 41. When we worked out 25 + 16 + 23 we started with 41 - 1 = 40 +20 = 60 + 4 = 64."

Maths - WALT identify 2D and 3D shapes

WAL about Geometry.

We have learnt that "Geometry" means shapes.  

We already knew a lot about 2D shapes so spent most of our time learning about 3D shapes.  We went on a shape treasure hunt around the school and took photo's of lots of different 3D shapes.  Some were easy to find and others were hard but it was lots of fun!  We made shape monsters using some of the shapes we had learnt about.

Gordon's Reflection:

"I liked learning about 3D shapes.  It was easy for me.  I found it tricky to find a rhombus shape but we did in the end.  I know all the shape names."

WAL our Basic Facts

Playing Slide Maths with my friend

Gordon's Reflection:

"I like Maths.  I like working with the teacher on the mat.  We have been learning about adding in 10s.  I practised my basic fact homework I got 28 out of 30 but I ran out of time to finish to 50.  My teacher is proud of me."

We Are Learning To Read Graphs - Statistics Strand Term 1

Gordon's Reflection:

I am learning about graphs.

It is easy for me because the bar and pie graphs are easy to understand.

My friend can help me.

I am learning to find halves, quarters and other fractions of sets and shapes.

"I learnt about fractions. The pizza was easy to learn. It was hard to fold the paper perfect.  It was hard to do the big fractions like 7/10ths.  Mrs Wyatt helps me do the Maths."

I am learning to add and subtract groups of ten by using simple known addition facts.

"We added tens.  50+10 was easy.  I did not need the iceblock sticks."

Subtracting Tens

We have been learning to subtract groups of tens.

"It is tricky for me to subtract groups of ten without using the tens rods."

I am learning the attributes of numbers to 10

In Maths we have been looking for numbers in every day situations.  We have been making sets and coming up with different ways to write numbers.

"Here is the number 5.  I am in Room 5 and I am 5 years old."

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