Maths Problem- Takeaways

Our WALT for this week is to solve word problems in different ways.

Here we started counting back from the biggest number to solve our problem. 

To solve this problem, we came up with 3 different strategies:

Counting back from the largest number

or

Taking away the tens then adding back the ones

or

Counting back in tens.

Whanau Came to See Us Swimming

The swimming lessons have now finished and to show how much we have improved, we invited our whanau to come and watch us swimming.

Our class was lucky to have some families watching them.

Thank you to everyone who came to support us!!

The Pest Research Continues

This term we have been focusing on our topic about the pests in our community.  We are looking at what these pests are, their habitats, their diets, how to prevent them from coming into our houses and how to get rid of them.

This has required us to do a lot of research!  We have been using web sites, books, asking our families, making observations and collecting all these information to write reports.  We have been working in groups and we all have to do our part.

It is a great topic and we are enjoying learning about these pests even though there are some pests we don't like at all!!!

The Completed Fly Swat Art

It was fun making fly swat art and to make it more interesting, we used black ink and our fingers to print some squashed flies.  

How many flies can you see?

Pests Have Invaded Our Classroom

Rats, mice, cockroaches, flies, mosquitoes, spiders, flea and wasps have taken over our classroom.  To protect ourselves, we have put up mosquito nets, rolled up newspapers and have a jandal handy to get rid of those pesky pests.

We wonder what pest will come to annoy us next!!!

The wasp nest, spider crawling down, wanted posters for flea, rats, mice, and ant information

Flies, mosquito net, looking at mosquito larva, the mice that Mr Sok brought to school

Pest Art

Fly Swat Art

As part of our inquiry learning, we have been learning about pests in our environment. Flies are pesky pests and we can use fly swats to get rid of them so we decided to use the fly swat and paint to create our artwork. It was fun 'smacking' the paint and watch it splatter across the paper.