Hockey Small Sticks Wednesday

Cam from Auckland Hockey has been teaching and coaching us through hockey this term and we love it! It's a great team sport for girls and boys to play. Cam has supplied all our specially sized hockey sticks and balls so we can learn at our own level. 

As you can see we are enjoying the game so much it's hard for Mrs Trembath to take a still photo!

Pac Man part 3

Wow an end result to 2 days of Maths thinking! If you would like to know what our challenges were take a look at our window and see if you can solve them too!

Now we are going to use our pictures to revise how to estimate, count using arrays, count in 2s, 5s, and measure perimeter and area. 

We are going to draw our own versions on grid paper and make our own mazes. Then we will write instructions using Rotation and Direction words. Watch this space!

Day 2 of Pac Man

This group are reading their challenge before deciding if they need to go out into the school to explore or ask another teacher for clues, or work out the problem themselves.

Measuring time, length, and using clocks and themselves!!

Ali wants to count how many stick it notes it has taken to make Pac Man! Will he count in arrays, groups of 2 or 5 or 1-1? 

Tim has a try too, he estimated first and them started to count. How would you count them up? 

Pac Man Challenge

Focus: to revise Maths Knowledge and Skills from during the year in the context of our School Conmunity! 

Room 20 invited R21 and R16 to participate in our challenge too - check out their windows this week as well!

Children were put into groups of 3 and given a bag of 10 challenges to complete in any order. 

Each challenge was awarded 2 stick it notes when Mrs Trembath had listened to  how the group had solved each challenge, before they were given the go ahead to choose another challenge from their bag.

Olympic Finale for the Middle Syndicate

Lining up in our countries dressed in the colours of their flag! Our teams were made up of children from across the Syndicate. We made new friends today! Mrs Trembath was so proud of everyone and how they participated upholding the Olympic Values of Friendship, Excellence and Respect. 

It was a beautiful day and we had lots of games and sports to try around the playground and in the hall. We used hurdles, balloons, potatoes, horses, rockets, balls, frisbees which just goes to show you can make a game out of just about anything! 

I challenge you to make up some games at home and have a Family Olympics!!

Science Club

Experimenting with Cornflour and Shaving foam! What kinds of changes do you notice happening?

How does it feel? What has the texture become like? Has the temperature changed? 

What do you see?

Instant snow! It feels like cold bread crumbs! 

How did we make it? 

Using 1/2 or 1/4 or 1/3 cups we measured 3/4 cornflour and 1 cup of shaving foam 

Then we mixed the ingredients together with our hands!!

Our own straw stadiums!!

Mr Armstrong Jessica's Dad was very helpful today and helped us with our own creative designs.

Lots of fine motor skills, cutting, sticking, estimating, changing ideas and adaptation - and great fun!

Tinker Time with the Osmos coding

Coding has now been added to our apps. Lots of discussion and forward thinking is needed to solve these problems. Lateral thinking and perseverance are really important in Room 20!

Look at Joshua and see his feeling of success! 

Using Lego to compare 1/2 fractions for Maths Week!!

What can you see on the Lego? 8 dots what will half of that be - 4/8. What will half of that be 2/8. What will half of that be 1/8. 

We repeated the thinking with 1/6 and 1/4. We are thinking and learning about the whole fraction and the denominator and the numerator. 

Drum Roll Please! Our Stadium is complete! Now to use it!

The secret material has been revealed - Bubble Wrap! To create the Water effect we saw in our study of the Water Cube and to let light into our space, bubble wrap seemed to be the best material - all 30 metres of it! So the maths, technology and group problem solving skills have now been extended this week and we have a new and interesting space to work in.

Thank you to our generous Room 20 whanau for the 44 cans going to the City Mission this week! Our School has donated over 1000 cans - thank you!

Black Out Day was not only to mark the New Zealand athletes competing in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games but it was also to raise awareness of those less fortunate than ourselves by taking part in our Two-can Day (toucans are birds native to Brazil). Winter can be cold and hard on some people in the wider Auckland Community and we need to learn to think of others besides ourselves.

Inspired by the Beijing Water Cube! Maths and Technology join forces in this Storm of Ideas!

One of the sports stadiums we looked at was the Water Cube in Beijing which was built for the Beijing Olympics Aquatics. We talked about why the Architect chose to design the building like this. What does it remind you of? Water, molecules, ice, bubbles, floating - use your imagination!


So we set about making our own mini stadium using paper, card, sellotape and a secret material to wrap it all up in!

The shape of our stadium was begun with a hexagonal base. Then we had to roll paper to make cylinders. Next we chose the triangular frame shape to hold our wall up as we noticed the beams in our classroom were triangles so we decided they must be the strongest shape.

So here is the frame work all sturdy and strong!

ASB Get Wise Programme Visits Room 20 today!

Serena from GetWise came to school to teach us about how to save our money and keep our money safe. Where does money sit? What is an eftpos card? Whose money is it? What is a credit card and where does the money come from? What is 'borrowing' ?
Each team earned $100 for doing jobs. They put the money in the Bank. Haden, Nathan and Ali went shopping with $100. How will they spend their money? How to look for a best price?

The Olympics starts in Room 20 with a popular Chinese sport - table tennis!

The Chinese team won all of the Gold Medals at the London 2012 Olympics. You can play this game too - there are tables to play on at school.