What a Wonderful Year!

We ended the year with a whole lot of wonderful activities. We visited the zoo, made beautiful birds, we had an amazing open night when our parents came to look at our hard work, we played "which beak is best"  and we made our own beak books. We wrote heart-breakingly beautiful poppy poems for Remembrance day. We had a visit from a dog and a visit from a little bird called a 'greenfinch. We learnt about snow in summer, planted sunflowers AND a magic crystal garden. With Moya we made crocodiles and marvellous mosiacs. We watched an Italian puppet play and we presented posters on our favourite birds. We collected data on Beatles songs, we ate (breakfast cereal) crocodiles and we cooked roast potato chips and garden salad for our class party to celebrate the end of a fabulous year!

 

Sad to say, this is also the end of the blog for the moment. As everyone in this internet savvy day and age is aware, there's no point writing a blog if you can't keep it up regularly and unfortunately technological issues and personal demands mean that the blog won't be continuing next year. It's been lovely and who knows, maybe we'll be back someday...

Before we go, here are a whole lot of photos of our end of year fun. Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

Ciao Bella!

Even Group's Extreme Multiplication

In term four, the even group completed a marvellous unit on multiplication. We've worked very hard and learnt alot about what multiplication means and how it works. We did lots of fun, hands on activities and we learnt that multiplications can mean times, repeated addition and of course "groups of". We discovered that we already knew lots about multiplication - doubles, sharing evenly and skip counting are actually also multiplying!

We began by talking about arrays... this are when a number is laid out in equal columns and rows, it's a good way to see how many "groups of" you have. We looked at different ways of making groups of for the same number and how to write number sentences using the x symbol. We did number investigations, learnt about square numbers and drew factor trees for different numbers. Finally, we made our own times tables charts for our portfolios and times tables cover up to play at home. It was a wonderful, multiplicative, learning adventure!

Clarrie – I learnt that maths is sometimes fun.

Mariana – I discovered that 6 times 3 equals 18 and 3 times 6 is 18 as well.

Riley – I learnt that 4 +4+4+4+4+4 = 24 is also 6 times 4

Sean – 6 multiplied by 4 equals 24

Max - I had fun!

Audrey – I learnt all about 24. I found out that 24 is a cool number because it has lots of different ways of making itself.

Aimee – I learnt that four rows and 6 columns are 24.        

Sophia - I was looking at 18. I discovered that I knew more about it than I thought I did.

Lewis - One row of twenty four equals 24.  

Sarah - We weren't just learning about Multiplication. Multiplication is repeated addition. 

Dan P - I looked at 24. I found out that two rows of 12 equals 24.