Tangrams

Mrs Ware had a fun maths activity for us today.

They are puzzles called Tangrams. The rule is you have to use ALL 7 pieces and you are not alloud to overlap the pieces.

We tried to make the puzzles Mrs Ware on a piece of paper, and some of us made up our own.

Try them at home - goggle Tangram images to see what you can find.

Shapes

This week we started learning about shapes.

Mrs Ware gave us a whole lot of shapes and asked us to put them into groups. It was really interesting because everyone had different ideas. Mrs Ware asked us to explain why we put the shapes together in those groups.

Here are some of our ideas.

Science experiments

Some of our class have bringing in some AMAZING science new recently. Thanks so much to the parents for supporting the kids learning.

Today we had an Ostrich feather, a coconut and a cool experiment.

Here is Grace's milk and soap experiment. Mrs Ware talked about how in an experiment you should only change one thing. Can you try it at home? What one thing would you change?

Here is Mathew's chalk experiment. He thought that the chalk would disolve but it didn't. The chalk in the lemon juice sucked some of the juice up and is now growing funny mould. Maybe that will be our science news next week!

We had a think about all the things that were the same in Mathew's experiment, and what was different. This is what we came up with. 

Algebra

As part of learning about patterns we made our own 'growing' patterns.

Personification

This week in writing we are learning about personification.

This is where a thing, or idea is talked about as if it was a person, and as if it can do things that it can't REALLY do.

Time crawled.
The wind whispered.
The sun beat down.

One reading group even found an example in our story yesterday
'At night, she lay in bed, and listenened to the sea breathing in and out under her door'

Yesterday we practised with a buddy on white boards.

We had to have ...
a noun (the thing)
something it was going that really only people could do
adjectives (describing words)
a conjunction (joining word like - while, but, although)

Here are some awesome examples that the class have written in their books today

The raging fire danced around the brown, dusty wood. - by Sara
The bright fire angrily danced as it whistled its favourite tune. - by Millie
The furious fire rampaged through the town like the incredible hulk. - by Brad
The vicious fire devoured the house as it danced along.  - by Grace H