We started off looking at how division was the opposite of multiplication. We did this by revising what Multiplication and Division Family of Facts looks like.
Then we checked everyone could do short division. Can you do short division?
After breaking it down and practising asking how many times the divisor goes into the dividend we tried harder problems that took us to the long form or long division.
What way do you use to solve harder division problems?
Kia Ora
This week we have been comparing and contrasting information about plants and what they need. Depending on where they live their needs change. Plants that live in the cold are smaller and require less water, they also sleep through the coldest parts of winter. Plants that live in the desert, store water for the dry season. All plants need water and nutrients from the soil. It depends on how much water and nutrients they can get from where they live.
Here is an example of what we had to do…(this is the master)
Kia Ora
We were broken into groups to discuss a few images about water and the effects of too much or not enough.
Check out what we did.
Each set of slides had an Auckland, New Zealand, Pasifika, and World Water Event. Students only had to discuss one or two.
We are writing reports. So we needed to remember how to write one. We even broke down the description for the purpose of two different reports.
On Wednesday our teacher told us about the school we are joining to do Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu – it is where you write comments on other student blogs from schools around the motu. So were checked out where and who the schools are we are blog commenting with.
The schools are Paroa in Greymouth, first, we thought they were in Whakatane then found them in Hokitika, on the West Coast of Te Waipounamu. Glen Innes is our other buddy school, they were easier to find and are in Auckland at first we thought they were a long way from our school (as they were the first school we looked for, after locating our school on the map) until we searched for Paora School. Edmund Hillary School (our school) is the red marker.
Kia Ora Koutou
Did you know April was Poetry Month?
We have been learning how to do a range of poems. My favorite type of poem is the diamante. But so far we haven’t made one of those. I have always enjoyed reading shape poems and struggle to make my own shape poems as great as others. But I have now found a site that helps to create shape poems. You type in the words and then you can draw the shape try it out here.
Our teacher shared with us through Hapara Workspace a poem kit. Thank you to those who created it it was a lot of fun to try something different.
Today our Maths investigation was around triangles. Using the dot we had to make right-angle triangles. First, we had to make sure we all knew what that meant. Did you know a square and rectangle have 4 right angle corners? – That means the corners are 90°.
I will tell you how many we found after you tell me how many you find. Remember you can’t count a triangle of the size and shape twice. So be careful how you lay out your triangles, you can use this link to help you with your answer. Good Luck
We have an opportunity at the local high school to work with Year 9 and 10 students to complete a range of STEAM projects with a focus on Engineering.
As a class, we checked out Careers NZ with a focus on Engineering we then picked 5 career options and had to investigate them further. My questions were:
What does an engineer do?
How much did they make?
What do I need to know? or do to be an engineer?
Where can I study to be an engineer?
This is the beginning of my project.
What would you like to know about engineering?
Kia Ora
we have been checking out a range of ways to present information. I love word clouds and was curious to find one where students could add ideas in real-time and the cloud is being made. Our focus was sharing what we thought the school values meant to us. I then took a screenshot of each one and here they are.
Then we applied this information and made a mosaic here is an example created by Samsalvation:
KiaOra,
Today we tried to find how many different ways to put 16 stones into 4 different piles that are not the same.
You can see when we shared as a class there are least 10 ways, we found together.
It was tricky to see the different ways as we used a system and then thought we were done.
Can you find any other ways this could be solved?