Incredible Maths

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning a new way to help us with our maths. We got into groups of four and we were given sixteen cards and we had to share out the cards evenly amongst ourselves. Before we got into groups we had to follow these rules. No talking, no hand signals and no taking anyone else’s cards. On the cards that we had were numbers, dots, tiles, words and shapes. What we were learning was to put them in to groups. For an example if you have a triangle, a piece of paper with three dots, the number three and a piece of paper with three tiles shaded in you will have a match and you are done. I really enjoyed doing this maths because it is a lot of fun but the thing I didn’t enjoy was that it was really hard because we couldn’t talk to each other or communicate. Have you learnt any new maths this term?

Mind blowing facts about swim safety

Yesterday we were very lucky to have Tracey from Swim Safe come and talk to us. She said that when you are on a boat you always put your safety first, check the weather, tell people where you are going and when you will be back, wear a life jacket and remember to put flares on the boat. Also when you are going for a swim you never swim alone and bring a adult that will watch you. Then she also taught us the key things about safety on how to use flares in an emergency situation, for example the parachute flare shoots up into the air and opens up into a parachute and then when it comes down it goes really slow and stays up in the air longer than a gun flare. I really enjoyed Swim Safe and I hope we get to see her next year. Have you had Swim Safe yet?

Newspaper Challenge

Hello Bloggers, welcome back to my blog I hope you had a good holiday and I hope you like all of my new blog posts. In Te Ngahere we have done a STEAM Challenge and we had to make a tower. We used 2 pieces of newspaper and 30 cm of tape and we had to made the biggest tower we could with what we had. I learnt that if the bottom of the tower is not too big or not too small just bigger than the long bit that sticks (kind of like a pole) off the bottom then it should stand up nice and straight. I think what we could have done better was the bottom have our tower could of had one more leg to keep it standing up, I also think that we did really well on our top of the tower. We also added a little string of newspaper that sticks out and keeps the legs together so that our tower could stand up. I really enjoyed doing this and I hope we get to do this again. Have you ever done something like this before?