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 ...

Alice in Wonderland Thinker's Keys

Poor Alice! She keeps shrinking and then growing. What will happen next?
Today we used the B.A.R. Thinker's Key to unlock our thinking about Alice in Wonderland.
We drew a picture of ourselves and made part of ourselves bigger, added something or removed something. We had to explain how our changes would affect what we could do.
Here is Rivah's picture.
 

Post a comment to say how you could change part of yourself 

and explain what difference it would make.

Adventures in Wonderland

This term our Inquiry is based around Alice in Wonderland. The story is 150 years old this year so it's a great time to celebrate this famous and much-loved story.
We will be investigating Alice and the other wonderful characters as we wander through Wonderland.
Our first challenge is the Alphabet Thinker's Key. We need to compile a list of words from the story for each letter of the alphabet.
Post a comment on the blog by saying your Alice in Wonderland word and the letter.

I'll start ... A  Alice