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Super Stars at Maths by Cooper and Riley S

We did some outstanding maths today. It was so fun and hard. We like tricky maths. Tricky maths is easy to do for us! Look at us doing our tricky maths. By Riley and Cooper Riley and Cooper's group did some tricky adding by tens today! I was very proud of them and love that they wanted to blog about it!

A Beautiful Comment

I really, really do have the most amazing class.

Today my heart melted when a delicious boy told me

"we are going to play Scientists at lunch time today because it is so much fun doing science"

I love that the children are so involved, enthusiastic and excited by the science we have been doing.

I am so proud of the children for having a go at home too.  There are some super clever kids in our class!

Cooper's Great Report and Grace's Great Description

Today Cooper read a book called My Pets.

He wrote a fantastic report about his pet cat called Rex.

I was very proud of the way Cooper was able to write such a great report and also that he read his book so well.

Keep up the great work Cooper.

Grace wrote a fantastic character description about Nelson the baby elephant.  She used some excellent language.  I was very pleased with her.

Maths Stars

Today Ashley, Emma, Cooper, Riley S and Bernie did some amazing maths.

They are learning to add one more to a number.  They were very fast at solving maths problems and they even worked out some REALLY big numbers!

Great work Tiaan and Cooper

Today the children wrote AMAZING reports about an animal of their choice.

I was so impressed with the WOW words they used and the great ideas they shared.  I especially liked the way they could use the report writing format we have been learning about in a very independent way.

After the children wrote their report they drew a diagram and labelled it.  We have been learning about diagrams at reading time.

I was very proud of the end result.  I will publish this writing over the Easter holiday.

Tiaan's report was so fantastic that he took it to Mrs Warren and got a special Principal's award.  It was very exciting for Tiaan.  I will add a photo tomorrow.

Cooper read like a Super Star today.  I was so excited when I was listening to him.  Cooper read like he was talking, it was fantastic!

He took his reading book to Mrs Warren and read it to her too.

Movie Making Progress

Today we did lots of work on our movies.

We got together with the other people in our groups and we began talking about things like voices, costumes, plot and character descriptions.  We made some pictures of what we imagine our characters will look like and identified some key characteristics.

Bryn was busy directing his group of actors- Israa, Briannah, Miles and Ava as they were having a rehearsal of their movie.

I loved the feedback that Bryn provided to his team.

Riley's group had a great idea.  Part of their movie is set in the Cashmere hills so Riley was keen to take his group to Victoria Park to film so of their movie.  When Riley suggested this we were all very excited but we also realised it posed some problems too.

Riley shared the problems with Mrs Simmons and with our class.

Then we did some problem solving together.

The children suggested lots of ideas

• Mrs Pelham could take the children in the car -  but what would happen to the rest of the class? - they could have a babysitter was one suggestion
• how would we get to Cashmere hills?  the children thought we could use google maps to find the way
• we could use green screen filming and add a background of the Cashmere Hills
• we could use English Park hills to look like the Cashmere Hills
• we could ask Riley's Mum or Dad to take us - but we would have to ask Mrs Warren first and the parents of the other children too

The children then went on an adventure to English Park.  The discovered the hills there were pretty good and they think they could probably use those hills to do the filming.

Our next step is to start writing scripts for the movies that are not yet written and then to work on our costumes.  We are feeling very excited!

I am particularly pleased with the way the children are embracing this inquiry learning.  They are driving the direction of this learning and it is so exciting!

Maths Stars

Have a look at Cooper, Riley and Bernie doing some amazing adding up today at maths time.

Maths in Action

Today Riley and Cooper did some great maths sequencing.

I tried to trick them but they could always put the numbers back in order!

Great Maths Cooper

Today Mrs Norton asked the children to do a survey about favourite sports.
Then they had to make a graph.

Cooper worked particularly hard on his graph and Mrs Norton was very proud of him....and so am I.

Home Learning

Today these children shared their butterfly life cycles with our class.

I was so impressed with the effort they made and that they could each explain the life cycle so well....and they each found a great way to present their information.

Kai Pai