Hip Hip Arrays!

We are celebrating arrays all around us.

Arrays are ordered patterns of objects in rows and each row has the same number of objects. Arrays are awesome for multiplication. Here is an array that I found ... it looks delicious!  It is showing 4 rows of 4 or  4 x 4.

How many chocolates are there?

Post a comment with the answer and take photos of real life arrays you can find.

 

How to Make a Happy Class

Room 14 are busy working on our recipes for a happy class.

What do you think makes a happy class? What are the ingredients?

Keep watching ... we'll be sharing some great recipes.

Captain Shmook and His Chook

                                  We were gobsmacking!

Last week we were part of an amazing production called Captain Shmook and His Chook. We were wonderful dancing, singing and rapping animals.
Post a comment on the blog to reflect on what the experience was like for you.

                                                            What did you love? 

                                                        What wasn't so good? 

                                                   What were your challenges? 

                                                  What are you most proud of?

                                    What does it mean for you, for next time?

Mad about Hats!

Room 6 are reading Alice in Wonderland and we are mad about hats.
We are also learning to use the Thinking Hats to develop our thinking. The green thinking hat relates to new ideas. Post a comment on the blog about your dream hat.
What would it look like? What are it's special features? Describe your dream hat.

Lots and Lots of Letters!

This week we are inspired by Alice in Wonderland to write letters ... lots and lots of letters.
Here is the the Fish-Footman delivering a great letter from the Queen of Hearts to the Duchess. 

Our challenge this week is to write a letter and post it to someone. Once you have written your letter and sent it off in the mail, post a  comment about it on the blog. I could say I'm Mrs. Palfrey and I wrote to Isla and Ava to say I am looking forward to seeing them at the weekend.
Who will you write to? I'll give you a hint ... nanas love letters!

Hurray for Arrays!

As part of our maths we are learning about multiplication. To help us we are looking at arrays because they set the equal groups into rows.

Post a comment on the blog to say the multiplication equation that goes with this picture.

Find your own array to share on the blog. Take a photo or describe your array for others to say as a multiplication equation.

Skip Counting Patterns

This morning at Maths time Cantor group began with a scatter sort activity.
They noticed numbers that belong to skip counting patterns.
Here they are busily working together to create the patterns.

Write your own skip counting pattern in a blog post for others to name.
Your pattern can be forwards or backwards and can start from a number other than 0. 
Here is my pattern   12, 10, 8, 6 ...