Sharing games with room 7

Co operative fun
Thank you room 7 for inviting us to play games with you today

Zumba with Sarah

Thank you Sarah for teaching us zumba

Thank you Rotary Club Cromwell

Rm 2 year 4's work with Rm 1 year 4's to organise a card to send their thanks to The Rotary Club Cromwell for gifting them with dictionaries.

More worms leave to find a new home

Jack gets some help finding worms for his own worm farm

Problem of the week

Holes in the roof

Lisa has just moved into a new house. The first night it rained she discovered 16 holes in the roof.

Buckets cost $1.50 each

1. How much will it cost Lisa to buy buckets to place under each hole?

2. How much water did Lisa collect altogether if each bucket collected half a litre of water?

Problem Solving Rubric

We created this rubric so we can mark our own problem solving

Ti Rakau

We are all waiting patiently for Jack to lead us

An excerpt from a story inspired by THE CITY HOTEL GOLD RUSH PANELS by Russell Clark

Bill and Johnny were in the town when they heard the news that a rumour was around. They saw a man with shiny bags of gold. Everyone scrambled away to find shovels from anywhere they could.

All the men scrambled to find gold, while the ladies supported them with food for their journey. On their journey they had to cross fresh, cold rivers. When they got there they dug day and night, winter, summer and autumn. By that time they had run out of food.

Bill and Johnny, they were full of courage and bravery, so they followed the angel that came. They followed him to the end of the rainbow where there was a pot of shimmering gold, “eureka” they yelled, they felt great and happy.

When they got home they were as warm as the sun. Everyone crowded them like when someone wins a race. They were as happy as they could be, and there were heaps of juicy bones for Bill the dog, “woof woof” he went.

Jessica(year 4)learning goals - (grouping ideas into paragraphs, using adjectives, and using similes to make writing more interesting)

Problem Solving

Who Plays What problem no 1

Jason, Emma and Rangi are talking about their favourite sports that are soccer, swimming and hockey. Jason says, "It’s impossible for me to ever be off-side."
Emma says, "It’s certain that I will use a stick to hit the
ball." Rangi says, "It’s possible that I might become an All White
What sports do each of them play?






PROBLEM FOR EXPERTS
Counting Cubes Problem no 2
Kelsey loves to count. One day Ms Martin put a pile of
cubes on Kelsey’s desk. Kelsey began to count the cubes.
She told Ms Martin the following facts about the cubes:
When I count the cubes by two I have one left over.
When I count the cubes by three I have one left over.
When I count the cubes by five I have none left over.

From this information can Ms Martin work out how many cubes Kelsey has.

Trip to Central Stories museum

Yesterday room 1 and room 9 went on a school trip to the Central Stories museum, we completed a treasure hunt, there were some challenging questions, thank goodness we were in small groups and some wonderful parent helpers came to support us.

We learnt many new tricky and interesting facts about gold. We saw models of the paddle dredges and learnt how they worked, we saw real samples of gold, and we saw a display representing the amount of gold that was dredged from the Clutha river, between Alexandra and Clyde from 1895-1923. Today it would be worth $324,000,000.

We realised that it was a hard life for the goldminers. We recommend that if you haven't been, that you go down and check it out for yourself.






These gold ingots represent the 6.5 tonnes of gold taken from the Clutha river by dredging companies between Alexandra and Clyde during 1895-1923. These guys are calculating the current value of the gold. Each bar would be worth about $900,000. In total this amount of gold would be worth $324,000,000





Gillian Grant reads her poem inspired by the exhibitions of a 28-panel mural, painted in 1962 by Russell Clark

Our worm juice is for sale $1

Our worm farm is now producing worm juice. Use it to water your plants and put all those nutrients back into your herbs and vegetables. For sale from our class only $1

Maths problem of the week no 1

Well done to the children who solved last weeks problem. We do enjoy solving them together on Fridays. Welcome room 2 who are also going to try to solve our problems. As requested, this week we have two problems. You can choose to solve either one or both. We will share our ideas and strategies on Friday. I would be thinking about drawing a picture and making an organized list. Good luck problem solvers!


Well, Well!

Freddo has had a nice swim in the bottom of the well and decides that now is the time to get out. Freddo climbs 3m
up the wall of the well and then rests. But the wall is slippery and he then slips down 1m. He is so tired he goes to sleep for the rest of the day. The next day he does the same thing. Climbs up 3m, slips back 1m, and goes to sleep. In fact he does this every day until he gets out of the well. Now the well is 13m deep. How long does it take Freddo to climb out of the well?

Good problem solving Baillie and Hannah

Maths problem of the week number 2

RABBITS (problem for experts)

Rabbits

Mr Greenwill looked out on his Otago farm and saw rabbits every where. "Why", he said, "I reckon there are about 1280 rabbits in that paddock. They’ve been doubling in number for the last seven years. How many rabbits were in the paddock seven years ago?


Nice Hannah, well done

Thinking of you Lachlann in Vietnam

Thanks for the photos Lachlann. It looks like you are having a great time. We are looking forward to seeing you next week