Enviro with Mrs Daniel

Team 15 at Enviro

Get N.Z. Writing 2

Team 15 have opened the special tin that will help us create inspirational word poems!

Here is Step one of the process.

Keep watching our blog to see the amazing poems being crafted and recrafted.

Get N.Z. Writing

Get New Zealand Writing.

Team 15 are part of the Get N.Z writing project. 

We got a special delivery with lots of goodies that are going to help us write an amazing poem

One of the special goodies was a little tin fill with some exciting treasures that are going to inspire our poem writing.

At this stage we don't know what is in there.

We shook it and made a list in our writing books on what we think might be in there. 

Some of the suggestions were;

money

mini statues 

mini instructions

hamburgers

paper clips

nails

gems

Keep looking at our blog to see how we are going with our poem.. and to see what is in the box.

This is the special treasure box

Te Reo on Ratū with Mrs Harding

Let's Talk Math Strategy

In Team 15 we are learning about the importance of explaining our mathematical thinking. Yesterday we were given a word problem to solve. Mrs Turner didn't even care if we got the answer wrong as long as we could explain how we worked it out. 

First we learned how to breakdown a question (Look for the key words and numbers and figure out what it is asking us to do).  We identified that the key word was 'ate'. This meant it was a Subtraction problem. 

Did you know LOT'S of other words mean the same as subtract? - takeaway, minus, loose, lost, ate, gave away! (if you can think of more, post one in the comments section)

For some of us, the problem was REALLY easy. For some of us, it was REALLY hard. Even our best mathematicians though, were in the learning pit for a while trying to think of the best way to explain their thinking.

To solve the problem, some of us drew pictures of cupcakes and crossed them out as we counted. A couple of us spotted a 'magic 10', but most of us just counted backwards from the biggest number. All of these are perfect strategies to use. We are very proud!

These 3 brave, amazing people volunteered to share their strategy on camera. Can you give us some feedback in the comments? We think Chloe did particularly well with her explaining how/why she used the numbers. What do you think?

Tu Meke! 

Ice Breaking

Happy first week Team 15!

Mrs Grant and Mrs Turner are so excited to have you all in our class. We are super proud of your good manners and the way you have showed a growth mindset this week.

Here are some pictures of us getting to know each other. This occasion called for us to step out of our comfort zone and 'interview' other people in the class. We had to find out things that we didn't know about each other. Did you know that no-one in Team 15 likes the colour pink, lots of people have pets, and quite a few of us have travelled on an aeroplane?

We are looking forward to lots more collaborative activities like this one.