This week some of our maths groups were looking at subtraction. There's never just one way to solve a problem, so it's super important to share our maths thinking and compare the strategies we've used. We can learn quite a bit off each other this way! We also like to show our workings, because sometimes if don't quite reach the right answer, we can go back and check. Sometimes when we're explaining to a buddy or our group what we've done, we notice a little error. Sometimes we're not on the right track at all! We don't mind that though, because we know we learn from mistakes! Nico, Noah, Kees, and Ben buddied up to share how they solved a subtraction number sentence.
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We know it's important to hook our readers when writing, but it's also important to keep them hooked and reel them in to the very end. We're learning about 'Show not Tell' this week. This writing technique is all about using our senses to describe something, rather than just telling what it is. Mrs T acted out some feelings, and we had to guess what feeling she was showing us. Then we talked about all the things we could see - for example, Mrs T didn't tell us she was angry, instead she showed us by stomping around with her hands clenched into fists. Next we buddied up and had a first go at writing our own little Show not Tell sentences. Ask us to "tell" you all about it! We LOVE maths in Room 12 - and so does Mrs T's dog, Frank! Frank enjoys watching us working on using our place value knowledge to add two numbers together. We used maths equipment (Base 10 blocks) to help us build our understanding, and then talked with a buddy to compare our workings and share our maths thinking. Sometimes when we get different answers we need to work together to figure out how we can solve the problem. We know we need to justify our decisions and that it's ok to change our minds and change our answers. The most important part is the maths journey we go on!
This week is Bullying-Free NZ Week 2018, and on Friday we'll show our support by wearing pink clothes to school for Pink Shirt Day. In class we've talked all about what bullying is, who can be involved, and who can help. We talked about how we can prevent bullying from happening in the first place, and decided that being proud of who we are is a pretty good place to start. We think that if people are proud and happy to be themselves, then they won't have a reason to bully other people. We wrote about what we love about ourselves, what we think we're good at, and what makes us proud of who we are. (Just quietly, it was also a good opportunity to practise using similes!) What do you love about yourself? How do you make yourself proud to be you? Tell us in the comments. You also might like to have a look at our ranch slider window to see all our "Proud to be Me" poems. |
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