Sunday, 21 September 2014

Measuring Madness

Today we did some experimenting with the measuring equipment. We rotated around a range of activities and did some hands on measuring.

Monday, 1 September 2014

Monday, 25 August 2014

Elections!

Today we began reading the policies of some of the parties involved in the coming election.
We looked the Education, Law and Order, and Animal Welfare policies.
This has prompted some great discussion!
We would love to know your thought!

Adding and Subtracting Integers!

A big thanks to Miss Hooper for showing Miss Garland a new way to work with integers.
Very clever!

Thursday, 24 July 2014

Week 1!

Room 17 have had a great start to the term! We are all back into our learning and enjoying the new topics.
We have started talking about areas that we are passionate about...


Wednesday, 9 July 2014

Holiday Homework!

Remember that this is optional!
Be as creative as you like!
I made this using Mural.ly. It is a Chrome app that I have added to your accounts.

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Amazing Minecraft

In their final session, the Minecraft club were working extremely well. Have a look at the fantastic modes of transport that they created. Great teamwork and planning!

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Digestive System

Today we have begun writing about the digestive system. To help us find information we listened to podcasts and watched some great videos. Here is a particularly helpful video...

Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Freaky Fractions!

Yesterday we began to learn about Fractions. We started our learning with a great Kahoot. The Kahoot had a range of questions that required us to use our Fraction knowledge. Today we began working in groups to fix any gaps that we had and answer any questions from yesterday. We specifically worked with equivalent fractions. Here is a You Tube video which might be helpful if you are struggling.
 This image shows clearly, how the fractions remain the same.

Wednesday, 28 May 2014

TK Tech Challenge

Room 17 were given a challenge, along with the rest of Te Kanawa. Each group needed to make the tallest tower possible, to hold their egg.

 Luckily the eggs were hard boiled!

Monday, 26 May 2014

Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Prime Numbers

Now that we know about Factors, we need to think about Prime numbers. Prime numbers are numbers that only have 1 and the number itself as factors.

Finding Factors

Finding factors of a number: Finding Factors of a Number
This video is very long but if you watch the start, you will see how you can find out factors of a number.