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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.