Mind bending maths!

We've been learning about area (measuring the inside of shapes) and perimetre (measuring the outside of shapes).

Then Mrs Ware gave us a tricky problem. How many ways can you make a rectangle with a perimetre of 1m.  First we figured out that 1m was the same as 100cm. Then we used some quad paper and tried lots of different rectangles. We added up the sides to check if we were right. These are all the ones we found.

Good bye Belle

Belle has moved house and is now going to Bayview school.

We will miss you Belle, keep in touch!

Buzz Groups

We love to share about what we did in the weekend. Here we are in buzz groups.

Can you see how well we are listening?
- sitting still
- looking at the person talking
- not talking

Area

We are learning about area in maths.

Mrs Ware asked us how many people did we think would be able to stand in 1 square metre. We took a guess and then she drew a square metre on the mat with the chalk and we saw how many would fit. 9 people easy, and 15 in a squeeze.

Then we had to try and figure out how many square metres we would need for the whole class.

This is how most of us figured it out

1 sq m              +           1 sq m              +              1 sq m                             3 sq m
9 people                       9 people                           9 people              =          27 people

Visiting Scientist

On Tuesday afternoon Dr Smith came to GMS to give a talk to room 12 and 13. He is Emily Carson's uncle and is visiting Napier from his home in the USA.

He studies space and physics as part of his job at Boston University. He told us lots of cool things we didn't know about Space and the Earth's atmosphere.

- Saturn has 60 moons!
- the Earth's atmosphere has waves in it
- the moon has a tail
- Red Giants are suns that are nearly out of gas to burn
- Venus has poisonous gasses and the camera that went there had an emerald lens so it did not melt

We had lots more questions for him, maybe we can try to find out the answers ourselves! It as so great to meet a real scientists and hear about how he beacme interested in space.

Dr Smith with a picture of the waves in the Earth's atmosphere.

Lots of questions about the moon's tail.

Awesome Authors

Last week we were working on 'Show not Tell' stories.

We had to write about how we were feeling, without saying the word! We had to infer (give clues) instead by describing parts of our body and what they were doing.

See what a great job these  people did!

I woke up after a nightmare. I went to the door but it was so dark I could not see and it was really the fan. I banged my head. My eyes watered but I didn't cry. My mouth swaung completely open. My legs started to shake and I backed towards my bed. Athough it took a while I saw a bit of light. My arms reached for the handle of the door. And finally, finally it was the door.
By Matthew

Crack! My brother bounced on my favourite brush. My head banged down while I started to cry. My hands started to shake. My mouth went down. My feet just wanted to stomp. I felt like I would never get another one.
By Keeley

My eyes fluttered open as I lay in my bed and remembered my nightmare. My heart beat faster. I squeezed my eyes shut and clenched my teeth, trying to forget the dream. I but my lip while my body curled into a ball. My shoulders hunched over and I started breathing really fast. My stomach tightened and then tied into a knot. My breathing was stopping and starting and I hid my face in the pillow.
By Katie

FIFA under 20 world cup

Last Tuesday Mrs Ware took a group of Year 3 and 4 kids on a trip to Park Island.

They went to see the Under 20's soccer world cup. They had an awesome time playing a soccer game on a bouncy pitch and Connor L did really well in a goal shoot out competition for a ball.

Here is a photo of Connor with the actual trophy!

The Under 20 soccer world cup will happen in NZ next year.