Here we go for 2016 . . .

Talofa lava, Kia orana, Malo e lelei, Namaste, Sa wat dee kah (Thai), Kia ora, Cham reap sour (Cambodian), Bula, and Hello

Welcome to Room 16's Blog for 2016!!!

We are a Year 3 & 4 class, with 29 hardworking and friendly students.  We are all looking forward to the amazing learning and experiences ahead.

Our topics for this year are;
Term 1 - Explorers, Term 2 - Disasters, Term 3 - Best of the Best (Olympics) and Term 4 - Discover.

We encourage you all to read our blog and give us feedback on our learning and work.


From Room 16 and Ms Clark

Different ways of figuring out . . . how many dots there are.

Today Ms Clark showed us an image which was an array of dots.

We looked at it and figured out different ways of working out how many dots there are instead of just counting in ones.

Here are ALL of the ways we came up with;

1)    6, 12, 18 - skip counting in 6s

2)     6 + 6 + 6  = 18 (repeated addition)

3)     3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 18 (repeated addition)

4)     5 + 5 + 5 + 3 = 18

5)     3 + 3        3 + 3        3 + 3 
           6      +      6      +      6      = 18

6)      6     x     3 = 18
          (6 groups of 3)

7)     3 x 3 = 9    and    3 x 3 = 9     so 2 x 9 = 18 (or 9 + 9 = 18)

MATHEMATICS

2 times tables

In class we've also been learning about the 2 times tables and gaining a better understanding through using materials.  Sometimes when we hear the words "times tables" we think it's hard but we have been learning other words which makes it easier, like "lots of" and "groups of".  Also we found out that if we know our doubles (for example: 4 + 4) then we actually know our 2 times tables (for example: 4 + 4 = 8, so 2 lots of 4 equals 8 too). 

showing 2 x 12 = 24 (2 groups of 12 is 24)

showing 2 x 5 = 10 (2 lots of 5 is 10)

showing 2 x 1 = 2 (2 groups of 1 is 2)

MATHEMATICS

Firstly I'd like to apologise for the delay in having any recent posts, was having technical difficulties.

Statistics

The beginning of this term we were learning about graphs and finding out information from questions we posed.  One week our question was "What colour vehicle passes our school the most".  We made our predictions which was grey/silver cars would be the most common colour and the least common being green, white, yellow and purple.

We then went outside our gate to view the cars going past.  We each had a partner and a colour car that we were looking for.  We took it in turns to record the number of cars using tally marks and looking for the colour cars we were given.

And here we are with our partners recording.

WELCOME BACK!

Hello to all parents/caregivers and families,

I hope you all had a lovely, restful Christmas and summer break with your child/children, family and friends.

Now we're back into school for the year, starting off well for Term 1.

I wish you all the best for a great year and look forward to meeting you if I have not already as well as teaching your child and giving them the best possible education I can.

Regards, Ms Clark

Maths - Graphs

On Friday 7th March, we did Statistics with our question being "What is Room 16's favourite fruit".  Each child drew a picture of their favourite fruit and then we came together and shared what our favourite fruit is.  Then we stood and made a "human graph" to show our results.  
Watermelon had the most children say that it was their favourite fruit and the least favourite fruit were plum, pear, orange, mango, grape and passionfruit as only one child liked each one.
We've also been looking at words used in statistics, for example; most, least, tally marks, data, graphs, pie graphs, bar graphs, y axis and x axis.  

Below is a picture of our "human graph".

Water Safety (Topic & Health & P.E.)

Room 16 was lucky enough to have the use of life-jackets for a couple of weeks and we learnt about making sure we had a life-jacket that fitted correctly, feeling comfortable wearing it (through floating) and how we can survive if we were to fall out of a boat.