Hexagons and Squares Maths

WALT: add more than 3 numbers together by first making pairs to 10 Here are Luke and Thinuka demonstrating the strategy they have been learning in class this week. Can you practice this at home? Post a comment with a new equation that you practiced at home and expalain how you solved it... e.g. 16 + 14 + 2 = I took the 4 off the 14 and made 16 into 20. So now I have 20 + 10 + 2 = 12

20130529 115300 from Kristin Mason on Vimeo.

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Learning the Ukulele

Room 20 and 17 have begun learning the Ukulele this term. So far we have learnt 2 chords - C and C7. Here we are rocking out a number called Lime in da Coconut! Half of us are doing actions while the rest jam on the ukuleles. This is our first song and we are pretty stoked!

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Here are the boys...

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Writing

In Writing we are learning to RETELL. We have begun by reading familiar stories and retellng them. Here is Caitlyn's introduction to Maui and the Sun. What do you think she has done well?
MOV01833 from Kristin Mason on Vimeo.

Writing

In Writing we are learning to RETELL.  We have begun by reading familiar stories and retellng them.  Here is Bella's introduction to Maui and the Sun.  What do you think she has done well?

MOV01832 from Kristin Mason on Vimeo.

On Friday Caitlyn's Mum was our Mystery Reader. She bought in Caitlyn's favourite book 'Giraffes Can't Dance' by Giles Andrede and Guy Parker Rees. We loved listening to the story and the illustrations made us laugh! We loved the pictures so much we decided to paint our own. Chack out how amazing they look... Giraffes Can't Dance by Room 20 on PhotoPeach

Grandma McGarvey:

 

Grandma McGarvey is a funny old lady. She has tiny watchful eyes, hiding under her little round glasses. They are like speedy eagles watching over thier nest. Her nose is like a kiwi's beak poking around in the undergrowth, stuck on her face. She has a wobbly double chin it looks like that adds to her kind features. Her clothes are misplaced and wrong for a women of her old age! Her head is squashed on her body so it looks like she's got no neck! Her hair is wiry and messy from all the adventures she's been on. It looks like a bird's nest from one hundred years ago! Grandma McGarvey is a funny old lady.

 

By Zac.