Reindeer Cookies

Over the last few weeks we have been working hard to understand fractions.

I promised the children that if they could show me they had a great knowledge of fractions we would put them to use in a 'real' way.

.... I have been so impressed with how well the children have been able to read and order fractions that today was the day!

We made our own 'chocolate gingerbread reindeer' by baking our own cookies.  The trick was we were only allowed to use the following cup measures
1/4
1/3
1/2

Our recipe need full cups, and 3/4 cup measurements so we had to think hard about how we could make these measurements work ... or our cookies might have tasted a bit odd!

After we worked as a team and made a delicious dough we had a turn at using a rolling pin and gingerbread man cutter.

At lunch time Finn and Nicky baked our cookies in the Room 2 oven.
Our classroom smelt delicious when we came back after lunch.  We left our cookies to cool while we went to the library.

When we came back to our classroom we had fun turning our gingerbread men into reindeer by turning the man on his head!

Have a look at our cool creations

Riley's Great Invention

Wow, I was so excited to hear Riley tell me about his amazing Lightening Attracting Machine.

I was even more excited to get these photos .... what an amazing invention Riley, I can't wait to find out if it worked!

Israa's Amazing Machine

Today Israa drew this amazing machine that uses fantastic forces.

I love your thinking Israa

Number 59

we have been coundint the number of days we have been at school.  When we get to 100 we are having a 100 days of school party!

Today is day 59.

We shared what we know about number 59 with Room 15.

It is almost the middle number between 10-100 v- Tiaan

 There are only 41 more days until we reach 100 - Cillian

 
Charlotte's mail box number is 59 - Charlotte

It is a big number - Lucy


It is closer to 100 than to 1 - Ashley

it is a two digit number - Nethasa

it's a very cool number - Hunter

it's a very big  number and it is an odd number - Sven

     it is on the middle row of our hundreds chart - Frankie

it's more than half way to 100 - Johani

the number after 59 is 60 - Elenoa

the number before 59 is 58 - Ashley

 it sounds a bit like number 15 like room 15- Isabella

when we got up to 50 the half we coloured in and didn't colour in is the same amount - Briannah