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Maths Week 6

Hexagons

WALT: simplify fractions.
have a go at this packman style game to simplify fractions. Mathman.
Here is a really good video explaining how do to this (so you can teach Mum and Dad!).

Circles and Squares

We are looking at different ways to subtract when the number you are subtracting has larger digits in it. E.g. 23-17. Look at all of the ways the squares thought of to solve this problem.

Triangles

We are learning to subtract by splitting a number into parts and going to a tidy number.
E.g. 13-5 as 13-3=10, 10-2=8
To be good at this we need to be really good at our number bonds to ten and basic facts to 10.
Practise your basic subtraction with this range of games from multiplication.com

Weekly update Week 5

Philosophy

In philosophy today we talked about the difference between honesty and truth. Have a talk about this at home. What do you think?

Arataki trip

We went to Arataki trail. We got a little booklet. We had a cross word puzzle and artist pallet. We went on a humongous bush walk. When we went on the bush walk we got told about different trees and the stories behind them. We used the artist pallet to stick on different nature colours.   

THIS IS PETER'S LAST WEEK IN ROOM 34. GOOD BYE PETER! WE WILL MISS YOU.

Reading

In reading this week we have been doing summarising.

Maths

In maths this week the we the hexagons have been doing simplifying fractions. The circles, squares and the triangles have been learning subtracting.

Writing

In writing we have been learning to do persuasive writing.

By Greer, Emily and Nathan

The Amazing Math Race- Answers

Well done to all those keen mathematicians who travelled around the world this week on the Amazing Math Race.
Below are the answers to the problems.
Mrs Carryer will be checking homework books and giving out dojo points and prizes on Monday.

Monday

1.      A plane travels faster                                                 

2.      24 hours              

3.      7 days                  
4.      3 weeks            
5.      24 hours            
6.      1884                   

7.      7 metres            

8.      $9                      

9.      $1                       

10.    9 letters    

Tuesday

1.      5, 4, 3                 

2.      Octagon       

3.      Five                    

4.      None (no corners)    

5.      4                          

6.      204                     

7.      2 hours              

8.      4    

9.      50 people          

10.    5 tens       

Wednesday

1.      9000                            

2.      8                                   

3.      80 minutes                 

4.      Yes                              

5.      10,12,14,16,18           

6.      10 kicks                      

7.      22 kicks                      

8.      7,9,11,13,15                

9.      5 dumplings               

10.    12 dumplings            

Thursday

1.      6500                             

2.      6                                   

3.      120km                         

4.      6, 8                               

5.      8000 metres               

6.      25 metres                   

7.      136 kilograms            

8.      10 warts                      

9.      Warthog                      

10.    15km faster

 

Friday

1.      One third                    

2.      4 koalas                      

3.      Half                              

4.      6 hours                       

5.      12 hops                       

6.      4,000,000                    

7.      18 million more         

8.      1103                             

9.      11                                 

10.    1003

Maths Week 5

Hexagons

WALT: add and subtract decimals
See the games under the math link to practise this: Decimal Jeopardy and Decimal Detective.

Squares and Circles

WALT: solve addition and subtraction problems using place value

Triangles

WALT: use doubles to add near doubles.


Have a go at Dinosaur Dentist to practice this!




Here is a video to help you explain this strategy to your parents!

Reading Week 5: Summarising

We Are Learning To Summarise

 

What is summarising?

Summarising teaches students how to discern the most important ideas in a text, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas in a meaningful way. Teaching students to summarise improves their memory for what is read. From Reading Rockets

 

How do I summarise?

Ask yourself the following questions (Mum or Dad can ask you these when you are reading at home too!):

1. What are the main ideas?
2. What are the important details crucial to the text?
3. What information is irrelevant or unnecessary (not important)?

Then in very few words write down the main ideas and important details in a way that tells your reader briefly what the text was about.

 

Reading activity

1. For reading this week, choose an article from Kiwi Kids News or Dogo News (Kiwi Kids has shorter articles). Read the article carefully.
2. Write down the main ideas and important details in your reading book.
3. When you get off the computer, use that information to write a short summary of only one or two sentences.

Week 4 update

Wow!
What an amazing week, particularly today's assembly! Bethany got the citizenship cup and brightened assembly with her sunny smile. And all of our hard work on mathletics paid off when we won the mathletics trophy. Well done Room 34 for all your hard work, especially Alex who got over 10,000 points!

In Maths we have been talking about multiplying and dividing using our place value knowledge on large numbers.
In Reading we have been making connections, and in writing we have been learning how to write to persuade.

Don't forget that Monday is teacher only and on Thursday we have our trip to the bush.

Mrs C.

The Amazing race- Friday

Friday:            The Final Destination.

1.      Two thirds of Australia is desert land which Aussies the 'outback'. What fraction is not desert land?

 

2.      In six trees you count 24 koalas. How many koalas are in each tree if there is an equal amount in each tree?

 

3.      Half of the koalas are eating eucalyptus leaves. What fraction of koalas are not eating?

 

4.      On average a koala sleeps for 18 hours a day, how many hours is it awake?

 

 

5.      A kangaroo bounces past.  It hops once every 5 seconds.  How many hops would it make in one minute?

 

You find another clue hidden in a eucalyptus tree and you snatch it away before a koala can munch it to pieces. The clue reads…

Return to New Zealand!

 

New Zealand has a population of approximately 4 million. Australia has a population of approximately 22 million.

 

6.      Write four million in numbers. 

 

7.      How many more people live in Australia?

 

8.      You race to the Sky Tower in Auckland.  It is 328 metres tall!

          You walk up 1103 steps to the top.

          Which number is larger:

          1103 or 328?

 

9.      How many hundreds are in 1103?

 

10.    One hundred steps before you reach the top you need a rest. 

          How many steps have you climbed now?

         

You get to the top! Congratulations!

You have completed the Amazing Maths Race!

Grammar Videos

We made videos on what we have been learning in grammar. Let us know your thoughts!

The Amazing Maths Race- Thursday

Thursday:             Safari in Africa.

 

You fly from London to Africa where you travel up the Nile, the longest river in the world. It is 6670km long!

1.      Is 6670 closer to 6500 or 7000?

 

2.      How many thousands are in 6670?

 

3.      You travel 10km a day.

          How far would you have travelled after 12 days?

 

Next you go on an African safari and see a cheetah, pride of lions, a tower of giraffes, a bloat of hippopotamuses and a very smelly warthog.

 

4. You count the lions in the pride in twos, ‘2, 4, ?, ?, 10’. What are the missing numbers?

 

5. The roar of a lion can be heard 8km away!  How many metres are in 8 kilometres?

6.      The average giraffe is 5 metres tall, what would the height be if 5 giraffes were stacked on top of  each other? (That would   be silly, they would tip over!)

 

7.      A hippopotamus can eat up to 68 kilograms of food a day!

          How many kilograms of food would a hippopotamus eat after two days?

 

8.      If a warthog has 30 warts and 20 drop off, how  many warts does he           have left?

 

9.      The fastest speed a warthog can run is 56 kilometres per hour.

          A lion can run 81 kilometres per hour.

          A cheetah can run 96km per hour. Which animal is the slowest?

 

10.    How much faster than a lion is a cheetah?

 

Fly to Australia!

The Amazing Math race- Wednesday

Wednesday:          Asian Arithmetic.

You travel to The Great Wall of China in Beijing to find your next clue. The Great Wall is 8850km long!

 

1. Is 8850 closer to 8000 or 9000?

 

2. How many thousands are in 8000?

 

3. You walk along the wall for 35 minutes before having a rest.  Then continue on walking for another 45 minutes looking for your next clue.  How many minutes have you been walking for?

 

4. Have you been walking for more than one hour? 

You leave The Great Wall and travel to a local Chinese Village where you meet Foo the friendly Panda who is breaking two bricks at a time with his Kung Fu kicks.

 

5.      Foo counts the bricks in twos…2, 4, 6, 8…what are the next five numbers?

 

6.      How many kicks would it take Foo to break 20 bricks?

 

7.      How many kicks would it take Foo to break 44 bricks?      

         

8.      Foo smells a bowl of dumplings and loses count of his kicks so starts again from 1.

          1, 3, 5... what are the next five numbers?

 

 

You share the bowl of 10 dumplings (equally) with yourself and with Foo.

 

9.      How many dumplings do you each get?

 

10.    If you wanted 6 dumplings each, how many dumplings would you need?

Extension:

In 2013 the population of China was 1,364,660,000 people!  New Zealand has 4.4 million. How many zeros are in one billion. 

Amazing Race- Tuesday

Tuesday:         Europe Eureka!

You travel to the Black Forest in Germany (also known as the Forest of GeomeTREE pronounced Geeh! I’m a tree! ) and meet a magical elf who will only give you the next clue if you can solve his riddles.

He gives you ten seconds to guess…

 

1.      10, 9, 8, 7, 6...what are the next three numbers in order?

 

2.      What shape has eight sides?

 

3.      How many sides does a pentagon have?

 

4.      How many corners does a circle have?

 

The magical elf gives you your next clue, ‘Go to the second floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France’.

 

5.      The Eiffel Tower is painted every 7 years to protect it from rusting.

          How many times will it need to be painted in 28 years?

 

6.      There are 704 steps to the second floor of the Eiffel Tower.  You climb 500 steps before stopping for a break.

How many more steps do you   need to climb?

You get your next clue and travel to London, England and wait outside the Big Ben clock tower for the Queen.  

7.      You arrive at 9:00am, the Queen will not be arriving until 11:00am.  How many hours will you have to wait?

8.      While you wait you hear Big Ben’s quarter bells chime. They chime every fifteen minutes.  How many times would you hear them in one hour?

9.      At 11:21am the Queen arrives.

          She is with 25 guards and 25 servants. How many people arrive     with the Queen?

 

10.    How many tens are in fifty?