OH THE PLACES WE HAVE BEEN!

Oh the places we have been!

Today we did a Group Breakout and it was an exciting challenge! Today we solved the Dr.Seuss Breakout.

A Breakout involves a lockbox with 4 different kinds of padlocks attached to it. The challenge is to use clues around the room to solve the problems also around the room and then use the answers to work out the numbers or letters on the padlocks.

Each small group had to take turns and use a recording sheet to save their answers but not tell the other groups what they had found out!

Some of the clues were hidden in text from Dr. Seuss books and you know how topsy turvy those stories are! One text had directions in it and these when put into the correct order unlocked a Directionality Lock. A special torch that picked up invisible ink solved a puzzle but needed another clue to solve a 4 digit number.

Each group had 2 minutes to try their solution on a lock and then another group had a try.

A code also had to be found in another small lockbox but groups had to figure out the numbers hidden on 3 plane tickets first.

We had 40 minutes to see if we could complete the challenge but we did it in 50 minutes so next time now that we understand the process we will try to improve our time.

Congratulations Room 20 - Mrs Trembath is so impressed with the way everyone worked as a team and shared their thinking. We all had to think outside the box and try and try again!

Then we listened to the expert educators and talked about adaptation and habitat.

We're going to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo! First we went walkabout!

Kiwi Tennis starts coaching the Middle Syndicate today!

Gabriel from Kiwi Tennis arrived today and started teaching us tennis skills.

 He will coach us for the next 4 weeks so remember your PE uniform on Thursdays please!
Gabriel is one of the experienced coaches that also coach at Sunnyhills Tennis Club. Gabriel is all the way from Spain so we hope to teach him about our country too.

Potting on our Trees for Survival

Today Room 20 had an important job to do. It was our 7th Enviro Day for the year with Mrs Daniel & the seedlings the school has been growing for the Trees For Survival programme were ready to be transferred into bigger containers. Linda from Auckland City Council came to show us what to do.

Everyone took turns filling bags with potting mix, taking seedlings from the root trainers and tucking them in tight. We used our maths skills to work out  how many seedlings we had potted on; 133 after an hour and a half of hard work! Well done us!

In 6 months, with lots of care, our plants will be ready to be planted out into the  community. They'll be homes for birds and insects.

Olivia said, "We had to get our hands dirty and i had fun choosing my plant."

Dean wanted to plant all day. He said it was hard to work if it was a weed or not.

Sienna liked potting on because it was messy fun.

2016 Sports Day at Sunnyhills! The weather behaved and we all had a super day!

8 year olds lining up!

7 year olds lining up!

So glad you have remembered your hats!

Ready to jump, run and try our best!

Such energy girls!

At the end of the day there were finals for all of the sprint races and there were lots of Room 20 children in those races! Fantastic fitness and such a great mindset for competitive racing today!

Hoiho is Mrs Trembath's House and we all cheered our loudest! The Senior relays were so exciting to watch. I know there were nervous runners out there.

Hoiho Senior Girls came 1st and we were so proud!

The boys' relay was very competitive and Hoiho came 3rd - well done boys for stepping up to represent us, I know you practiced a lot during the days leading up to the Sports Day.

Room 20 really enjoyed their day - they were excited and energised. Congratulations to you all for being great sports people and encouraging each other at all times!

Zoo Maths - thanks to Mrs Madden!

Hippo Maths - October 2016

Photographer William Warby snapped these 2 kissing hippos at the Whipsnade Zoo in England. Actually, it's hard to tell whether they're playing, kissing, or just shoving each other out of the way. Hippo is short for "hippopotamus,' which means "river horse."

These round, grey lumps are the 3rd largest land mammal, after the elephant and the white rhinoceros. The funny thing is, their closest cousins are another set of chubby mammals: whales and dolphins! Well, hippos love water just like they do, and it looks like they love to play, too.

Questions:

1 : Hippos need to breathe every 3 minutes. If a hippo swims for 3 minutes, comes up for 1 minute, then goes under for 3, how many minutes does that take?  

Bonus: If it keeps up that pattern, is the hippo swimming or breathing at 10 minutes?

 

Extension : A hippo can live until 45 years. If a hippo's grandchildren are all ages that divide neatly into 45, with 1 hippo of each age, at least how many grandchildren must it have?

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